Tamara Albaitis's Page

Website

www.burnthebox.org

Relationship status

single

College / University

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Program

MFA in Sound Art

Graduation

25 May 2005

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Installation

I am...

a part of and connected to everyone and everything else on this planet.

About my artwork

In 2005, I was the first person in the US to graduate with a MFA in sound art.

Daily rituals, routines and my personal observations of the pervasive effects of audio-visual synchronization on everyday life inspire my sound installations. The technological mediation of experience, and concept that philosopher Paul Virilio describes as the 'sonorization of everything.' My minimalist approach begins with the employment of the most rudimentary materials for sound replication, raw speaker cones and audio wires, which become sculptural components for each work. The materials reference the entry into a world of replicated realities. My work begins with the sonic form itself, which triggers a physical form in my mind. Primarily site-specific works, with deliberate use of the floors and ceilings are then implemented. These sound molecules are essentially thousands of feet of audio wire and speakers cones which create "three-dimensional drawings" within mid-air. These works free the mechanics of sound from its representative qualities into another space, which draws the observer into a new mode of audio/visual perception.

Interests

travel, languages, shoes, books, dancing and the ocean

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Olafur Ellisson and Louise Bourgeios

The centre of the artworld is

online

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