System ID:
77
Title:
Dark Room Project
Author:
Virginia M Madsen
Author 2:
Author 3:
Degree:
Doctorate Of Creative Arts(DCA)
Year:
2001
Pages:
243
University:
University of Technology, Sydney
Supervisor:
Dr Norie Neumark
Semail:
Supervisor 2:
Dr Stephen Muecke
Language:
English
Dept:
Dept. of Media and Text, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Copyright:
Virginia Madsen
Lang_author:
English, French
Url:
Email:
v.madsen@unsw.edu.au
Keywords:
Theories and cultures of listening and vision, radio and audio arts, television and virtual reality, Critical theory, media theory, Paul Virilio, Michel Serres, Jean-Francois Lyotard, sound studies, media studies, phenomenology of media.
Abstract:
Dark Room Project comprises a set of critical soundings (dissertation)
and a collection of poetic works primarily for radio, but also including
a collaborative 'poem for television' (text, sound and still
photographic images) in addition to the libretto for a large-scale
radiophonic opera drawn from the life of the American tycoon, Howard
Hughes. In more than metaphor, this interconnected chamber suite
(performative, compositional, diagnostic, forensic) opens up a series of
overlooked ‘dark room’ spaces (media events, ‘wild soundscapes’,
Beckett’s wireless imaginings, a certain kind of intense radiophony…) to
new critical reflection and sounding. It interrogates a long
undervalued perceptual ecology: audition, and asks; what place listening
and sound in our current obsession with the image and the screen? Can
we reclaim the camera obscura (and inversely its obscuring camera) as a
site for listening? What benefits are to be gained from such an opening?
The loss of a space to ‘sound out’ is at the heart of this exploration,
which may thus be termed ecological. Dark Room Project offers an
expansive auscultation and questioning of the wider topos fashioned by
mediated reality and desire, in what Paul Virilio has called, the
“disintegration of the time of light”.
The Project includes Introduction, full text Libretto, Dissertation
(‘Decours’) in 4 ‘Developments’, Bibliography, and two CDs and VHS
Video containing all performance ‘Works’.
Last update:
Mar 15 2005
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