Philip Samartzis
| Philip Samartzis is a Melbourne based sound artist who
has performed and exhibited widely including presentations at The
Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris (2001); The Andy Warhol
Museum, Pittsburgh (2002); The Mori Arts Centre, Tokyo (2003); The
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2007); The National
Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2009); and The South African
National Museum, Cape Town (2010). He has curated five Immersion
festivals focusing on the theory and practice of sound spatialisation,
as well as Variable Resistance, a series of international sound art
presentations for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
(2001), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002) and the Podewil
Art Center, Berlin (2003). More recently he co-curated Magnetic Traces:
A Survey of French and Australian Sound Art for the 2011 Parisonic
Festival - Paris highlighting contemporary trends in international
sound culture. Philip has published five solo compact discs, Residue
(1998), Windmills Bordered By Nothingness (1999), Mort aux Vaches
(2003), Soft and Loud (2004) & Unheard Spaces (2006) and has
performed and recorded with leading international improvisers and
musicians including Sachiko M, Haco, Voice Crack, Keiji Haino, Michael
Vorfeld and Eric La Casa. In 2010 the Australia Council for the Arts,
and the Australian Antarctic Division awarded Philip fellowships to
document the effects of extreme climate and weather events on the human
condition at Davis Station in Eastern Antarctica, and Macquarie Island.
Outcomes from this fieldwork have been presented in the National
Archives of Australia and Australasian Antarctic Expedition Centenary
Exhibition (2011); Polar South: Art in Antarctica, Muntref Museum, the
National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires (2011); and the
11th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Edinburgh
(2011). In 2010 Philip began a three-year study of indigenous
communities in The Kimberley through TURA's remote regional residency
program in order to describe the prevalent social and environmental
conditions. Philip lectures in Sound in the School of Art - RMIT
University, where he teaches Sound Culture, and Immersive Environments
within the fine art degree. Philip researches in the areas of sound
art, acoustic ecology and spatial sound practices, and is a chief
investigator on two Australia Research Council funded projects,
Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing, and Spatial Dialogues: Public
Art and Climate Change. Broadcasts on ORF KUNSTRADIO: 03. 02. 2013: The Transmuted Signal - curated by Colin Black - A Frequency Oz series produced by Yanna Black |
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