Escoitar.org

http://www.escoitar.org/


Since 2007 Escoitar.org has organized workshops in Córdoba (Festival Eutopía06), Zaragoza (Centro Gohan), Pontevedra (Casa das Campás), Sevilla (Festival Zemos98), Cuenca (Facultad de Bellas Artes), Sevilla (Festival ZEMOS98), Madrid (La Casa Encendida, Matadero Centro de Arte, Espacio Menos1 y Medialab-Prado), Gijón (LABoral Centro de Arte), Santiago de Compostela (CGAC), Lucena (Festival Sensxperiment) and Vigo (MARCO).

The collective has participated in different international events: “Encuentro Iberoamericano de Paisaje Sonoro” (Madrid, 2007 y 2008), “Jornadas Vibra de arte sonoro y experimental” (Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia), “Festival de Arte Sonoro Artesons” (Lugo), “Festival Sónar” (Barcelona), “AVLAB” (Medialab-Prado, Madrid), “Proyecto Arte y Pensamiento” (UNIA, Sevilla), “Congreso de Arte y Tecnología Artech06” (Pontevedra), “Festival Eutopía07” (Córdoba), “Paseantes, viaxeiros e paisaxes” conferences (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela), “Artes de mediación. Roles da crítica de arte na era dixital” conferences (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela), “GIS Libre” conferences (Girona), or “Paisajes Sonoros” conferences (Museo de arte Precolombino e Indígena, Montevideo, Uruguay).

Escoitar.org has also participated in the following exhibitions: “Reinicia” (Casa das Campás de Pontevedra), “Google Art, or How to Hack Google” (New Museum of Contemporary Art de Nueva York), “Redes Aurales” (Festival Sónar de Barcelona) (curators) or “Banquete, Nodos y Redes” (LABoral, Gijón and ZKM. Germany). The collective promoted audioactions in: “CGAC” (Santiago de Compostela), “Círculo de Bellas Artes” (Madrid), “Festival Sensxperiment” (Lucena, Córdoba), “Festival Mediafest” (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), “TV de Galicia” or “Festival Zemos98” (Sevilla).

Escoitar.org has coordinated the following international events: “Hearing Cartographies. Sound and Place”, and the Cinema Season about the social history of the sound “Audiovisións”, both of them at the CGAC. It has edited two publications: “Escoitar.org. Audio-HackLAB” and “Hearing Cartographies. Sound and Place”, as part of the Proxecto-Edición (CGAC, MARCO and Fundación Luis Seoane).

Members of Escoitar.org:

Chiu Longina
Anthropologist. Musicology studies. Sound artist and creator of acoustic spaces. Member of the production team of the IFI Sound Art Festival (Universidad de Vigo, School of Fine Arts/Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra), member of the group SINSALaudio (Vigo,), of the artist collective Alg-a, and of the “Centro de Creación Experimental de Cuenca” (School of Fine Arts, Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha). Co-editor of the net projects Mediateletipos.net and Artesonoro.org. PhD student in arts and member of the Research Group DX7 Tracker, in the School of Fine Arts (Pontevedra, Universidad de Vigo). Freelance curator.

Horacio González
Fine Arts Graduate. Programmer and coordinator of the IFI Sound Art Festival (Universidad de Vigo, School of Fine Arts/Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra). PhD student in engineering and member of the Research Group DX7 Tracker, in the School of Fine Arts (Pontevedra, Universidad de Vigo).

Juan-Gil López
Musicologist. Member of the net projects Mediateletipos.net and Artesonoro.org. In the last years he has developped some interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of ethnomusicology (music and ethnicity), contemporary music, and about the relationship between music and Fine Arts. PhD student in music and arts, he is writting his doctoral thesis about "aurality", soundscape and the use of evironmental sounds in the contemporary sound creation, as a member of the Research Group DX7 Tracker, in the School of Fine Arts (Pontevedra, Universidad de Vigo).

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08. 02. 2009: Art’s Birthday 2009 Review – Teil 2





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