News:Haines to launch and Hinterding to perform at Douglas Kahn’s book launch

Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions …

News:Haines & Hinterding: Hollow in the Paper

12/07/2013 – 18/08/2013 Hollow in the Paper Joyce Hinterding, Pat Brassington, David Haines, Fiona Lee, Amanda Davies, Maria Kunda, Teaching and Learning Cinema Bec Stevens CAST Hobart from the CAST website the wonderful Bec Stevens writes Hollow in the Paper* was initiated through readings of two intertwined notions proposed separately by Duchamp. The initial text included the succinct idea of a transformer to utilise slight, wasted energies – with these mostly bodily energies being, for example, “sneezes and sighs” or “the movements of fear, astonishment, boredom and anger”. And the second notion being the infra-slim, infra-thin or infra-mince. A term …