17/09/2013 SKANUMEZS an international symposium for sound art

Carsten Seiffarth de Berlin nous informe d'un colloque international d'art sonore à Riga: On 7th and 8th of October an international symposium for sound art will take place at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Its title is ”Sound art: transforming the space into a place”, a slightly updated quotation from Max Neuhaus, the pioneer of sound art, and it will feature lectures and presentations by practising sound artists, including Max Eastley and Jacob Kirkegaard, as well as journalists, critics and art historians, among which will be Helga de la Motte-Haber, Rahma Khazam and Volker Straebel. The symposium is curated by Carsten Seiffarth from Berlin and is a co-production of EUNIC, network of the European Union National Institutes for Culture in Latvia, and Skaņu Mežs festival for adventurous music. http://www.skanumezs.lv/2013/an-international-symposium-for-sound-art/