On its 50th anniversary, in 1979, New York’s Museum of Modern Art coined the term “sound art” in the title of an exhibition of three female artists who were, as visionary curator Barbara London put it ...

Sound art can come off as terribly avant-garde when in fact it often acts a lot like visual art, except that it’s not always visible. Or, as Susan Philipsz puts it: “Sound is naturally invisible.” ...

Sound art has an identity crisis. Trapped between experimental music and traditional art mediums, it suffers from inaccessibility and an elitist, academic “cost of entry” requirement in order to ...

In case you haven’t been tracking the progress of group exhibitions of sound art, a short history would be: they are generally a disaster, with many works either impossible to hear adequately in the ...

Work by Visual Arts alumna Lau Wai at the 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition Fall 2022 applications are now being accepted for the MFA Visual Arts and Sound Art Programs at Columbia University School of the ...

Last month, Ars Electronica announced the winners of their annual Prix Ars Electronica, which awards art on the interface of technology, science and society. The jury was tasked with narrowing down ...

Beginning this month, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is running it's first ever dedicated sound art exhibit, dubbed Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Sound art is like music's equivalent of ...

Christine Sun Kim is a sound artist. She sends vibrations of her voice along piano wires strung across rooms, and invites people to feel the strings. She conducts "silent choirs" consisting of facial ...

Styles vary, but an interest in listening as a creative act is central. Ars Electronica Liquid Architecture 2014 will take place in various locations in Australia and Singapore from tomorrow to ...

Sound is something of an ephemeral phenomenon, existing in the moment that vibrations travel through the air. Those vibrations also exhibit distinct patterns, depending on frequency, which can be ...