Excited to be part of the excellent lineup for Essential Tremors on 8 and 9 August Sydney, and with a stripped back lineup in Canberra on 3 August.
Essential Tremors, curated by Angus Andrew [Liars], is an exploratory music and art series that celebrates the boundless nature of sound. Originating in 2022 at Phoenix Central Park with an all-Australian lineup, ET has since expanded globally to cities including Beijing, NYC, Tokyo, Akron, and Canberra.
”I feel like there is magic and a danger in live performance which remains unique to this world. It’s an experience as yet un-synthesised. ET supports artists taking risks in this medium. It’s an emotional and financial investment unparalleled.” – Angus Andrew
Full festival lineup Sydney: https://phoenixcentralpark.com.au/essential-tremors-24
Lineup Canberra: https://ainslieandgorman.com.au/whats-on/music/ainslie-salon-essential-tremors-2/
Speculating Cinematic Spaces - Workshops in Europe
December 2023 - January 2024
A series of Workshops At SPECTRAL Artist-led Spaces in Europe
Crater-Lab, Barcelona -16 Dec 2023
Challenging the Cinema Room (LAIA), Porto - 20 Dec 2023
Baltic analog Lab, Riga - 13 & 14 Jan 2023
A creative-critical workshop to investigate the practice of expanded cinema using speculative design to explore intangible properties and compositional methods which underpin sensory and participatory artist-audience experiences.
Connecting the physical darkroom with networked space through hybrid analogue and digital tooling, participants will experiment with 16mm optical sound and coded sound-vision patches to evaluate audiovisual relationships through performative techniques by linking sonic and visual parameters.
Expanded cinema is a concept and practice that extends the traditional understanding of cinema, incorporating a variety of media, sensory experiences, interactive elements, and usually, the audience themselves. As an artform, expanded cinema broke boundaries across the film and art worlds to combine social, technological and artistic ingenuity, drawing rich lineage from movements including, but certainly not limited to, proto-cinema, visual music, Happenings and Fluxus, light art and immersive environments, early computational art, and now, the continued exploration of experimental film and emergent digital processes. Constantly defying delineation, it has emerged afresh through a collective history which continues to evolve through critical revision and the proliferation of new works. This workshop leaps off the expanded cinema map to invite reflection and collective responses to these potential machine-body-space interfaces.
Led by the collaborative artist duo of Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove, the artists will draw upon their longstanding and interlocated practices in expanded cinema across experimental film, audiovisual performance, participatory installation, handcrafted software, sound art and electronic music production to articulate creative frameworks from celluloid to code.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
Delivered through presentations, demonstrations and hands-on practical sessions, the workshop focuses on the interplay between analogue and digital techniques, the immersive nature of expanded cinema, and the exploration of psychophysical perception through art. Creative frameworks have been applied to each method of working with the aim to foster conversation and enquiry around creativity, innovation, and forward-thinking artistic practices. Workshop participants will draw conclusions about the properties and parameters of selected analogue and digital tooling, as applied to the construction of sensory and participatory spaces.
MODULES
Module 1: Introduction to Expanded Cinema
Module 2: Creative Framework 1 – Evocation with Optical Sound & The Practice of Light
Module 3: Introduction to Digital Audiovisual Compositions with Unreal Engine, Metasounds, and Blueprints
Module 4: Creative Framework 2 – Perceptual Hacking with Unreal Engine
EXPERIENCE LEVEL & TOOLS
No prior experience required, however workshop participants who do have experience may also benefit from the participation in group activities and the critique of creative frameworks.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop (PC or Mac) for the second half of the workshop when working with Unreal Engine. Instructions will be sent in advance to load the free software onto your computer. However, this should not be a barrier to attendance if you do not have a laptop to bring, as there will be a demonstration laptop always present, and participants are encouraged to share resources where possible.
Participants are advised that at times there may be stroboscopic light or high pitched sounds, and darkness when working in laboratory environments. Participants are encouraged to freely take a break or move to a comfortable part of the venue as necessary.
ABOUT THE ARTIST PRESENTERS
Sally Golding is an Australian-British-Estonian artist creating immersive audiovisual performances, participatory installations and creative-critical writing. Her work considers participation and liveness in immersive environments; art as a mechanism for shared experiences; and dialogues examining the role of the artist, audience and gallery within new technological contexts.
An inaugural recipient of the Oram Award (New BBC Radiophonic Workshop/PRS Foundation) for women innovating in sound and creative technologies; she has been part of the roster for the prestigious SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art in Europe, and her work has been recognised in publications including Millennium Film Journal, The Wire, Senses of Cinema, Tate Modern, Oxford University Press, I.B Tauris/Bloomsbury and Palgrave Macmillan. Exhibitions and performances have included: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Museum of the Moving Image (US), Serralves Museum (PT), Digital Culture Centre (MX), CA2M: Contemporary Art Madrid, Whitstable Biennale (UK), Institute of Modern Art (AU), Sound of Stockholm, Abandon Normal Devices (UK), San Francisco Cinematheque, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Contemporary Art Centre (LT), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Contemporary Art Tasmania, South London Gallery and Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art (NO).
Her curatorial work as OtherFilm (AU) and Unconscious Archives (UK) has seen the delivery hundreds of innovative programs across moving image, sound and digital art, and her interest in the evolution and influence of technological art on society is demonstrated by her publication ‘Parsing Digital: Conversations in digital art by practitioners and curators’ (Austrian Cultural Forum London).
Matt Spendlove is an artist from London who creates immersive installations, audiovisual performances and sonic artefacts. Across these situations he explores spatial ambiguity, structural form, waveform materiality and the illusory contours of psychophysics. His work has been commissioned internationally.
He is the director of Cenatus, a company operating at the intersection of art, technology and networked culture that research and develop technological innovations through the lens of speculative design practice. He collaborates with clients on the creative direction, production and technology for live events, art installations, online media projects and immersive experiences.
International commissions, recordings and performances have included Mutek, Montreal; High Zero, Baltimore; Unsound Festival, NYC/Krakow; Club Transmediale, Berlin; Filmwinter, Stuttgart; Algorithmic Art Assembly; San Francisco; E-FEST, Tunisia; MoTA Gallery, Ljubljana; Cafe OTO, London.
COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
Commissions have included a large-scale immersive surround sound/VR experience for Museum of the Moving Image (USA); sound design for children’s accessible and inclusive theatre, Oily Cart (UK); a club-to-cinema experience for Tyneside Cinema (UK); an immersive film performance for Melbourne International Film Festival; performing the space of the gallery for Serralves Museum, Porto; and an IRL and online installation experience for Metro Arts, Brisbane.
Featured in new Book - Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia
Jonathan Walley’s exciting encyclopedic tome is out - Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, via Oxford University Press. Walley’s incredible achievement tracks and revises emergent practices from Happenings and Fluxus, to ideological audiovisual participatory experiments.
I’m super thrilled to have my work intensely discussed throughout this monumental book, as Walley interleaves foregrounding conceptual artists like Tony Conrad and emergent paracinema artists like Esperanza Collado. Traditions and multiplicities in a mutable and modular cultural landscape.
Find Walley’s book Cinema Expanded here.
Work discussed in Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices Book
Kim Knowle’s new and extensive book Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices is published by Palgrave MacMillan and is aptly dedicated to “all the photochemical radicals and free spirits”. I’m excited to have my work discussed among some exciting contemporaries in the chapter ‘Projecting Film, Expanding Cinema’. It’s a detailed look at labour and technology, media specificity and community – and features some artists whose names deserved to emerge from the briny chemical bath of culture.
Knowle’s book can be found here.
'Palpable, Gaze' – exciting new participatory installation project
Palpable, Gaze is a participatory installation which narrativizes and visualizes the algorithmic gaze in 3D space as a method of self portraiture. Concerning perception and considering the democratic aspect of both ‘visual operators’ gazing in awareness at one another’s presence - the installation proposes a situation in which the viewer is actively aware of, and participant in, photographic 'looking'.
Technological evolution within the long history of photographic portraiture has brought about a unique situation in which the image can now ‘see’ us. Under the political tone of facial recognition technology within surveillance, and potential applications such as neuromarketing via eye tracking technology, the emerging photographic act of seeing is an invisible experience in which we shift from being the subject to becoming subjected. Social and industrial trends within photographic processes form part of the system of critique – photography has always offered a form of ‘inner reflection’ from the earliest experimental photochemical self portraits to the over proliferation of selfie culture. By imagining photographic vision in 3D space, Palpable, Gaze questions if there is there a potential reversal of power in democratising the act of emerging photographic vision over succumbing to and privileging the multifarious gaze.
Project Credits:
Palpable, Gaze is a research and development project funded by Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT!
Interview for SHAPE Platform Artist of the Week
Read my interview for the SHAPE Platform artist of the week, where I discuss new projects and my approach to ‘sensation’ and ‘perception’ in creating audiovisual performances.
”My works are also often highly gothic in the sense that there is something deeply disturbing lurking beneath…. I’ve had people laughing and screaming inside my installations, and also saying that it can make them want to run and hide and look under the bed in case the sense of scariness followed them there!”
“Ultimately my work is sonically driven, and I think about sound and light in terms of tactility… for me augmenting materiality leads to creative compositional methods.“
Look Under The Bed: Sally Golding Interviewed
Mix for SHAPE Platform on Resonance Extra
Listen to my 40 minute mix on Resoance Extra exclusive for the SHAPE Platform, featuring fresh studio material from Swan Meat, Sculpture, Phantom Chips, new tracks from Myriam Bleau, Jörg Piringer and Stephen Cornford from forthcoming albums, live performance recordings from Tara Transitory and a duo with myself and Seymour Wright, plus a stack of Australian artists, and many artists who have previously taken part in my curatorial Unconscious Archives events.
Prepare your ears and minds for a sonic dérive!
Listen here: SHAPE # Sally Golding - 22nd January 2019
Artist page in Film In The Present Tense book
An artist page I created to ‘commemorate’ my performance at the symposium and festival – and now book – Film In The Present Tense (Berlin, 2017) is available now!
“…contributions from participants and guests of Film in the Present Tense – International Symposium on Current Developments in Analog Film Culture, held in Berlin. It reflects a contemporary discussion around the use, value and purpose of analogue film from a multiplicity of perspectives: artists, filmmakers, scholars, archivists, curators, technicians and manufacturers.”
Organized by LaborBerlin in collaboration with Filminstitut Udk Berlin. Published by Archive Books (Berlin, 2018).
More about Film In The Present Tense publication + order copies
Work discussed in new book 'Experimental and Expanded Animation'
Really nice to see this excellent new book Experimental and Expanded Animation published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by Vicky Smith and Nicky Hamlyn - a great resource on contemporary practice. I’m proud to receive a few mentions in the book, including some detailed discussion of my work in expanded cinema and sound over the years in the essay by Dirk de Bruyn.
Experimental and Expanded Animation, Palgrave Macmillan
Announcing my participation on the SHAPE 2019 artist roster!
Utterly thrilled to be part of the incredible SHAPE 2019 artist roster, which includes diverse sonic, audiovisual and installation artists from throughout Europe. This is an incredible project which involves artists crossing musical genres and audiovisual performance styles to form a consortium at the forefront of innovation.
SHAPE is platform run by a union of 16 European festivals, including Insomnia, Maintenant, Unsound, CTM and SONICA.
”The Creative Europe-supported SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2019 list of artists. The artist selection for the platform’s fifth year traditionally places a number of audiovisual projects and sound artists alongside musical acts that range from post-grime and techno to free improvisation and acousmatic music.
Initially intended as a three-year project, SHAPE was prolonged to seven years in total, and will be running till 2021 thanks to the support of the “Creative Europe” programme of the European Union.”
Find out more here including the full list of SHAPE 2019 artists
Coming soon - field recording on LEVE
This October I was invited to create a field recording for the vinyl compilation LEVE. Situated in the north of rural Spain, the incredible recording studio and label is run by Rafa Martínez del Pozo and Esperanza Collodo. Each edition of LEVE features 8 artists from diverse visual and music arts practices.
About LEVE
“LEVE publishes sound editions on an annual basis. These are conceptually inscribed in the idea of environment and field recording, and compile works made by invited artists. Artists are invited to stay on location and to respond with their work to a ‘set of rules’ related to site-specificity, duration and time of recording. The editions are made on 45rpm 10inch vinyl and artwork is silk-screen printed by hand.”
LEVE 7 release date approx. Jan/Feb 2019.
Parsing Digital - new book out now!
Really excited to announce - Parsing Digital: Conversations in digital art by practitioners and curators is my recent publication project which is now available! Featuring seven new articles focusing on deep research and current perspectives, Parsing Digital touches on algorithmic culture, the place of AI in art theory, and public gatherings and participation of ‘digital’.
Editor: Sally Golding
Authors: Addie Wagenknecht / Alex McLean & Ellen Harlizius-Klück / Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) / Luba Elliott / Manuela Naveau (Ars Electronica) / Martin Zeilinger / Sally Golding
Publisher: Austrian Cultural Forum London (ACF), 2018
Designer: Lisa Stephanides, Polimekanos
Cover Image: Alex McLean, weaving code
Further info & free digital & book copies here!
NEW LIVE SET @ CAFE OTO - AUG 2018
Live @ Cafe OTO, London, Friday 10 August - as part of Container's 2-day Residency
Excited to be performing a new live sound and light set harnessing the flicker and shutter mis/frame rates of my laboratory strobe light the Strobotac, and various other flashing devices, outputted through mini camera and mini projector. Brilliant line up across the 2-day event at the effervescent Cafe OTO.
THURSDAY 9 AUGUST 2018, 7.30PM: CONTAINER / XT (TRIO) + DIE REIHE
FRIDAY 10 AUGUST 2018, 7.30PM: CONTAINER + SALLY GOLDING + SILVER WAVES + LUKE YOUNGER (DJ)
More info & Tickets
The Oram Awards - online
I was thrilled to receive the inaugural 2017 Oram Award at a ceremony at Turner Contemporary in Margate. Info on all the 2017 Oram Awards Winners is now finally available online!
Check out all the winners on the new website.
"PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading funder of new music and talent development, together with The New BBC Radiophonic Workshop created The Oram Awards celebrating innovation in music, sound and related technologies by the next generation of forward thinking women. Named after Daphne Oram, one of the founding members of the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the awards hope to build on her legacy."
Forthcoming Digital Arts Publication
A collection of short articles presenting new conversations and critical urgencies in digital art from the perspective of practitioners and curators. This project reflects on the activities of the Austrian Cultural Forum London’s public events programme focussed on new and innovative art in 2017 including Emotion + the Tech(no)body curated by Sally Golding as part of Unconscious Archives Festival 2017, and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Digital Design Weekend.
Editor: Sally Golding
Authors: Addie Wagenknecht / Alex McLean & Ellen Harlizius-Klück / Luba Elliott / Martin Zeilinger / Sally Golding / Manuela Naveau (Ars Electronica) / Irini Papadimitriou (V&A)
Publisher/Designer: Austrian Cultural Forum London/Polimekanos & Cours de Poétique
Book launch events: 19th September 2018, Cafe OTO, London & 20th September 2018, Austrian Cultural Forum London
Release date: September 2018
Photo: Emotion + The Tech(no)body exhibition Austrian Cultural Forum London; artwork by Stephen Cornford; photo by George Darrell (image cropped)
Spatial-Golding new commission for Tyneside Cinema 'Projections' series
Excited to be selected to present a new immersive live audiovisual experience, specifically tailored to respond to the parameters of the cinematic space for Tyneside Cinema's artist film 'Projections' series. Decompression will feature generative AV systems and a club meets cinema soundscape. A collaboration with UK electronic musician and creative technologist Spatial coming up in 27th September 2018. Details on the event here and read the Tyneside Cinema news announcement of the full programme here.
