What Sound Does A Color Make

Eyebeam is pleased to present the premiere of What Sound Does a Color Make?, featuring contemporary and historical works by an internationally diverse group of artists who manipulate sound with image and image with sound. Curated by Kathleen Forde and organized by ICI, What Sound Does a Color Make? includes artists who likewise use technology to inspire a renewed consciousness of highly un-technological experiences — physicality, human cognition, and perception.

Artistic interest inspired by the phenomenon known as synesthesia, a condition in which one type of sensory stimulation evokes the sensation of another, can be traced as far back as the seventeenth century. For contemporary audiovisual artists, the possibilities inspired by this phenomenon have expanded with the advent of recent digital technologies that translate all electronic media, whether sounds or moving images, into the zeros and ones of computer bits. The artists in What Sound Does a Color Make? use these advances in technology to collapse the boundaries between vision and sound in a way that reboots our perception of perception itself.

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What Sound Does A Color Make?

mit Scott Arford, Jim Campbell, D-Fuse, Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner / D-Fuse, Granular-Synthesis, Gary Hill, Thom Kubli, Fred Szymanski, Atau Tanaka, Woody Vasulka & Steina, Stephen Vitiello, Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut