Being at; Sonic mediations
Niinikoski, Priss (2024-12-09)
Niinikoski, Priss
Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemia
09.12.2024
Maisterin opinnäytetyö
kuvanveisto
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202501308295
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202501308295
Tiivistelmä
Sonic mediations (2024) is the artistic component that was presented as part of the Kuvan Kevät 2024 - exhibition at the University of the Arts Helsinki. It is an interactive sound installation and performance that places emphasis on the interdependent relationship between human identities and the technological systems. Within this framework, the constraints imposed by these systems meet the body’s unpredictable, indeterminate sonic presence. The result is a tension measured and interpreted by apparatuses that carry their own agencies and affordances.
Being at; Sonic mediations is a written component that supports Sonic mediations as a narrative documentation. It involves theoretical inquiry and material experimentation to reconfigure the relationship between sound, body, and space. Rather than providing a conclusive interpretation, the document traces the project’s conceptual evolution with theory, practice, and embodied experimentation.
The initial segment, Starting points, synthesizes a wide range of conceptual resources, including phenomenological perspectives on embodiment, critical feminist interventions into craft and tactile knowledge, and experimental approaches to sonic materiality. These theoretical frameworks provide a foundation for approaching acoustics by challenging conventional modes of sensory prioritization and representation. The subsequent section, Unfolding, outlines the processes by which these conceptual models were translated into a site-specific installation and performance context. This phase details the construction of the wearable e-textile apparatus, embroidered speaker systems, interactive installation and the performance.
Sonic mediations positions sound not as a neutral transmitter but as an active participant shaping relationships, thereby foregrounding the critical potential of instability, risks and vulnerabilities. By embracing diffractive patterns of interference and fragmentation the project destabilises static assumptions regarding both technological and sonic forms. This written component documents an ongoing research on how sound and technology mediate spatial perception, orientation, and interaction.
Being at; Sonic mediations is a written component that supports Sonic mediations as a narrative documentation. It involves theoretical inquiry and material experimentation to reconfigure the relationship between sound, body, and space. Rather than providing a conclusive interpretation, the document traces the project’s conceptual evolution with theory, practice, and embodied experimentation.
The initial segment, Starting points, synthesizes a wide range of conceptual resources, including phenomenological perspectives on embodiment, critical feminist interventions into craft and tactile knowledge, and experimental approaches to sonic materiality. These theoretical frameworks provide a foundation for approaching acoustics by challenging conventional modes of sensory prioritization and representation. The subsequent section, Unfolding, outlines the processes by which these conceptual models were translated into a site-specific installation and performance context. This phase details the construction of the wearable e-textile apparatus, embroidered speaker systems, interactive installation and the performance.
Sonic mediations positions sound not as a neutral transmitter but as an active participant shaping relationships, thereby foregrounding the critical potential of instability, risks and vulnerabilities. By embracing diffractive patterns of interference and fragmentation the project destabilises static assumptions regarding both technological and sonic forms. This written component documents an ongoing research on how sound and technology mediate spatial perception, orientation, and interaction.
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