2015-2014 Events Archive
Land Mark Show, CCA Santa Fe
9 October 2015 - 27 December 2015
Awarded an Honorable Mention for a new sound and video installation “Bonneville Blue Whale” (2015), at the Land Mark Show, Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. Opening evening 9 October 2015.
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Assistant Professor at RISD
September 2015
Yolande is Assistant Professor in Film, Animation and Video at Rhode Island School of Design, teaching courses in Open Media, Video Installation and Intermediate Video.
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‘Listening to the Distance’, Solo Exhibition, Utah
‘Yolande Harris: Listening to the Distance’
Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University.
Large scale solo exhibition including 4 new audio-visual installations and existing works, with sound interlaced throughout 5 rooms: Eagle, Eyrie, Whale Walk, Light Entering My Room, Mississippi Tornado, Pink Noise, El Camino, Sun Run Sun, Sextant, Taking Soundings.
Listening to the Distance presents a series of video, sound and image works that explore how we can experience and share distant environments, through animal visions, remote presence and underwater sound. The exhibition weaves together Yolande’s artwork with her theories of techno-intuition and sonic consciousness, in which expanded forms of awareness emerge through technological media and critical listening techniques.
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Pink Noise installation at Currents, Santa Fe
12 - 28 June 2015
The installation ‘Pink Noise’, on anthropogenic sound underwater, Currents Festival 2015 Main Exhibition at El Museu Cultural in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Seminar leader at Currents Festival, Santa Fe
10 - 14 June 2015
‘Thinking and Writing about New Media Art’ is a 4 day seminar led by Edward Shanken and Yolande Harris at Currents Festival 2015, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe.
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‘Scorescapes’ published in Leonardo Journal 48:2
1 April 2015
Featured Artist’s Article ‘Scorescapes: On Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness’ investigates how sound mediates our relationship to the environment and how contemporary multidisciplinary art practices can articulate this. It joins the author’s own artistic practice with a theoretical analysis of the field, highlighting how relationships to the environment drawn through sound are profoundly bound up with technology. Key concepts include: making the inaudible audible; underwater sound and cetacean communication; field recordings and the contextual basis of sound; typologies of listening; the score as relationship; and techno-intuition.
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‘Ocean of Desert’ in Balance-Unbalance 2015
28 March 2015
Presentation of new research relating ocean and desert environments through sound walks and video installation, including exhibition of ‘Pink Noise’. The international conference Balance-Unbalance 2015; Water, Climate, Place, Re-imagining Environments will be held at Arizona State University, Phoenix.
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Grant from New Mexico Humanities Council
Grant awarded for a three day Seminar at Santa Fe’s Media Art Festival CURRENTS, ‘Art and Technology in Collaboration’, led by Edward Shanken and Yolande Harris, from the New Mexico Humanities Council.
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Artist Talk, Kunsthal Aarhus Denmark
28 January 2015
Kunsthal Aarhus and the Posthuman Aesthetics project of Aarhus University hosts this research seminar and artist talk on ‘Interactions between visual/auditive art and technology’.
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‘Listening to the Distance’ seminar
This graduate studio seminar will explore the artists role in understanding environmental change. It will focus on listening as a method of research and artistic experience, and will engage in examples from composers, artists and scientists who listen to the environment in different ways. The ocean will act as the case study, and the seminar will relate to current research in oceanography that enables live data to be accessed on land. We will study both psychological and technological approaches to listening and experiment with these techniques to expand our relationship to and understanding of environments. We will consider listening as a form of attention, that does not exclude images but actually enhances our ability to visualize and communicate, considering the implications of remote presence when listening to the distance. Students are required to actively participate through ideas and conversation, and to create engaging artistic experiences to communicate their research.
Art and the Environment: Listening to the Distance, the second in a series, is designed and led by Yolande Harris as a 10 week Graduate seminar at DXARTS, University of Washington 2015.
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‘Techno-Intuition’ in Artistic Experimentation in Music
“Essential reading for anyone interested in artistic research applied to music”, Artistic Experimentation in Music: An Anthology, Eds. Bob Gilmore and Darla Crispin, Leuven University Press 2014. ‘Techno-Intuition: Experiments with Sound in the Environment’ by Yolande Harris is published as a chapter.
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Guest Speaker at CalArts, UCLA, Art Center, UCSB
27 October 2014
Lecture and graduate studio critiques at the Center for Integrated Media speaker series ‘Conversations on Media Culture and Practice’ at California Institute of the Arts (27 Oct); Art Center College of Design, Media Design Practices (MDP) (29 Oct); and UCLA, Design Media Arts Art|Sci Center (31 Oct); and UC Santa Barbara, Media Arts and Technology (MAT).
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Scorescapes in Leonardo Just Accepted
20 September 2014
Pre-published on Leonardo Just Accepted, the article ‘Scorescapes: on Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness’ (a summary of the PhD dissertation of the same title, 2011) will be available in print later in a forthcoming issue of the Leonardo Journal.
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Experimental Video Art course
1 April - 4 June 2014
Leading a 10 week course on the hows, whats and whys of experimental video art. Guests: Gary Hill, James Coupe, Tivon Rice, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Johanna Gosse. DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle.
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Sense | Signal, exhibition Seattle
10 March 2014
SENSE | SIGNAL is an exhibition developed through discussions and experiments in the Art and the Environment seminar led by Visiting Artist Yolande Harris at DXARTS this quarter. The exhibition includes installations, walks and performances by Robert Blatt, Nancy Chan, Martin Jarmick, Coley Mixan, Joel Ong and Marcin Paczkowski. Events will occur throughout the evening, and refreshments will be provided.
SENSE | SIGNAL Exhibition
Monday, March 10, 2014, 6-8pm
DXARTS Fremont Studio
102 1/2 NW 36th St., Seattle, WA 98107 (map and directions)
Artists play an important role in investigating changing human relationships to the environment. In recent decades scientific research has revealed systemic environmental transformations on a global scale. Given this context, artists are increasingly aligning their roles within collaborative, social and technological projects that often emphasize complex interactions at scales beyond human perception.
SENSE | SIGNAL presents sensory environments that address such changing relationships to environments: technological, non-human, social and extreme. Working within an increasing complexity of scales, data, political agendas and scientific explanations, the artists have built on a series of discussions, experiments and encounters, in which they confronted differences between disciplines and examined potential roles for artists in scientific research on the environment. Their individual responses investigate frameworks around food, pubic space, electricity, noise, the artistic working process and internal meditation. All these works confidently engage us through direct sensory experience, as creative, imaginative human beings.
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‘Displaced Sound Walks’ University of Washington
6 January 2014
Read feedback on the Displaced Sound Walks as part of the DXARTS seminar on Art and the Environment.
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‘Art and the Environment’ Seminar
6 January - 10 March 2014
A ten-week graduate studio seminar on Art and the Environment with students from experimental media, art and landscape architecture, DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle.