Immanence and Immersion On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art

Name: Immanence and Immersion On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art
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ISBN: 9781501315862

ISBN-10: 1501315862

ISBN-13: 9781501315862

Edition: 2017

Authors: Will Schrimshaw

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Immersion is the new orthodoxy. Within the production, curation and critique of sound art, as well as within the broader fields of sound studies and auditory culture, the immersive is routinely celebrated as an experiential quality of sound, the value of which is inherent yet strengthened through dubious metaphysical oppositions to the visual. Yet even within the visual arts an acoustic condition grounded in Marshall McLuhan's metaphorical notion of acoustic space underwrites predispositions towards immersion. This broad conception of an acoustic condition in contemporary art identifies the envelopment of audiences and spectators who no longer perceive from a distance but immanently…

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List price: $175.49
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 10/19/2017
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 216

Will Schrimshaw is an artist, musician and Lecturer in Music and Sound at Edge Hill University, UK. He has published a number of articles relating to sound in the arts and exhibits his work internationally.