"This digital-first publication is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., June 16, 2023, to January 29, 2024. It was produced by the offices of Publications and Digital Strategies, Smithsonian American Art Museum, with design support from Smithsonian Exhibits."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-117). In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I); Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) distribution status to be determined upon publication.
Contents:
Image credits. Saisha Grayson. Catalogue of works in the exhibition -- Saisha Grayson. Musical thinking today: singing America -- Thematic movements across music thinking -- Liner notes: works in the exhibition. ADÁL, born Adalberto Maldonado, 1948, Utuado, Puerto Rico-died 2020, San Juan, Puerto Rico -- Raven Chacon (Diné), born 1977, Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona -- Mariam Ghani, born 1978, New York City; Erin Ellen Kelly, born 1976, St. Louis, Missouri -- Martine Gutierrez, born 1989, Berkeley, California -- Arthur Jafa, born 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi -- Christine Sun Kim, born 1980, Orange County, California -- Simone Leigh, born 1968, Chicago, Illinois; Liz Magic Laser, born 1981, New York City -- Cauleen Smith, born 1967, Riverside, California -- Postscript as prelude: histories of musical thinking in SAAM's time-based media art collection. Thomas Wilfred's lumina and light concerts -- Dwinell Grant and visual music on film -- Nam June Paik: expanding music, expanding media -- Steina Vasulka's violin power and rethinking the recording studio -- Cloud music and chance composing with video -- Dara Birnbaum and the art/music video -- Dan Graham's "Rock My Religion", and music as the message -- Playing in every key -- Notes -- Catalogue of works in the exhibition -- Works cited -- Suggested reading -- Image credits.
Summary:
""Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies" invites renewed attention to the intersections and influences of video and sound, focusing on recently made works by some of the most important voices in contemporary art today. Music is more than a formal element in these works; it is a framework through which artists understand the histories and traditions that inspire them. All privilege music as a means to explore individual and collective experiences of the United States and to connect with their audiences. Their use of musical thinking encompasses subjects and concepts, processes and production modes, and intentions for how the work will be received and experienced by music fans of all kinds. The media works presented in "Musical Thinking" are all drawn from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. These transformative additions bring the museum's time-based art collection firmly into the 21st century, while extending a core insight recognizable in SAAM's earlier holdings - that music lent much to the development of media art. Thanks to these new acquisitions, SAAM can now trace this relationship across nearly 100 years of American art history"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
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Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (November 28, 2023) https://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.