Andrea
Polli
Mesa
Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media at
the University of New
Mexico
Social Media Workgroup now online!
Polli's lab at theUNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (UNM) is now online at: http://socialmedia.hpc.unm.edu where you can view the lab's latest projects in public, mobile, open source and documentary social media.
Jan 24,
2012
PRESENTATION: Polli will present ongoing developments of ISEA2012: Machine Wilderness as part of the Oasis Albuquerque series of events.
Feb 25,
2012
PANEL PRESENTATION: Polli will be a part of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum panel at 12:30PM February 25th in 403A of the Los Angeles Convention Center at the Annual College Art Association Conference.
April 16-20,
2012
PRESENTATION: Polli will present at the Imagen Festival in Manizales, Colombia.
May 13 + 18,
2012
PUBLIC ART: Polli presents a temporary public work at Navajo Nation in collaboration with Navajo artists Venaya Yazzie and Esther Belin as part of New Mexico Arts TIME project. The project is scheduled to be live May 13th and an exhibition of documentation of the work will open at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe on May 18th.
CDS
AND MP3S AVAILABLE!
CD
RELEASE Winter 2008/2009
Sonic Amtarctica on Gruenrekorder
"Sonic
Antarctica is like no other release I have ever heard:
it comes across like a documentary film without the visuals.
Confused? So was I at first, but as it washed over me I
fell in love with it." Henry
Lauer
CD
RELEASE Fall 2008
Round Mountain on Audible
Geography. 11 sound artists were asked to consider the
scope of geography today. The final edition is offered as
a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of
Australian Geographers. ROOM40
is a label based in Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Lawrence
English, the label continues to publish in and around the
margins of electronics, improvisation, experimental-pop and
sound-art drawing on a diverse roster of both established
and emergent sound-makers.
MP3
RELEASE July 2004:
<http://www.stasisfield.com/releases/sf-3006.html> Stasisfield
presents Retina Burn, a 27 minute composition by
Andrea Polli. The Stasisfield record label focuses on instrumental
experimental music that is minimal in nature.
"In Retina
Burn, soundwaves generated by the sun are manipulated
by movements of the performer's eye, thereby allowing
the listener to audibly 'view' the sun without the
usual risk of damaged vision. The composition's low
hums and fluttering sine waves combine with percussive
blinks and squints to gradually move through a series
of sonic dilations; a feast for the ears prepared
by the eye."
-John Kannenberg, Stasisfield Founder/Curator
"SUN-KISSED
MP3: One of the beautiful things about electronic music
that's derived from conceptual art is that it provides
its own readymade metaphors....Case in point, Retina
Burn...Polli's work — 27-plus minutes of low-level
interference and broken whirs — takes as its
source
"soundwaves generated by the sun." Polli then
manipulates this sonic information, transforming it with
what she's termed "intuitive ocusonics," or
computer-aided musical interfaces that track eye movement .... Conceptually,
Polli's point is self-apparent: by manipulating sound
from the sun with her eyes, she's doing what we otherwise
must not, which is to look directly at the sun. What's
interesting, though, is that the resulting sound art,
as heard on the overtly slow Retina Burn, doesn't suggest
the scorching, brilliant center of our solar system (although
the crackles do bring it to mind) so much as it sounds
like data being processed meticulously in the name of
science: pristine data sets published for peer evaluation."
-Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet: reflections on ambient/electronic
music. www.disquiet.com
Ongoing
Project:
SONIC ANTARCTICA
Sonic
Antarctica is a series of natural and technological
sound recordings and sonifications
made by artists, scientists
and sound enthusiasts who have lived in Antarctica.
"Andrea Polli goes far beyond: her tracks are not only field recordings
of natural areas, but also sonifications of scientific data, extrapolated from
weather station reports. These tracks are assemblies that include interviews
with those involved (basically climatologists). The work gives space to purely
aesthetic notions and to environmental concerns. Polli alludes to the radio-broadcast
format but develops a new audio-based art with a genuinely scientific basis and
an aesthetically dense style." -Aurelio
Cianciotta, Neural.it
Ongoing
Project: N.
"The
overall effect is mysterious; while giving an approximation
of windswept desolation, it is also as melancholy as a whale
song...It is remarkable that this work, almost entirely constructed
from empirical scientific data, manages to produce such a
palpable and emotive sense of loss." -David Barrett, Art
Monthly
N. is collaborative project between
UK sound and web artist Joe Gilmore (creator of rand()%)
and Andrea Polli commissioned by the Lovebytes
2005 Festival and shown at the Site
Gallery in Sheffield, UK
REVIEWS: Read an
excellent review of an exhibition of several of Polli's works
at the Beall Center for Art + Technology in the The LATimes by
Shana Ting Lipton and
another by Jit Fong Chin in Squeeze
OC February,
2007
AWARDS: N. nominated
out of over 2600 entries for the Viper International Awards,
The 2005 VIPER International Festival for Film and New Media
in Basel, Switzerland
Ongoing
Project: THE QUEENSBRIDGE WIND POWER PROJECT
"The Queensboro Bridge is a beautiful artifact
of the industrial age and this project represents the transition
that can and must be made from the industrial age, dependent
on fossil fuels, to an industrial era that lives off of solar
income...wind is solar energy too, and all sustainability is
about getting the income to expense ratio on solar income to
something that can be sustained by living systems." Paul
Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism
The
Queens Council on the Arts awarded Polli an Individual
Artist Support grant, funded by the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs Greater New York Arts Development Fund,
for a public installation/screening of this work and related
projects.
EXHIBITIONS:
The
Queensbridge Wind Power Project has been presented in a solo
exhibition on public art at Contemporary and Classic Navy Pier Art
Expo, Chicago and
in The
SIGGRAPH 2006 Art Gallery: Intersections, Boston among other venues.
More
information on the project available at http://www.andreapolli.com/queensbridge/
Ongoing
Project: HEAT AND THE HEARTBEAT OF THE CITY
WEB
PROJECT: Heat
and the Heartbeat of the City commissioned by Turbulence,
a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA) launched
December 1, 2004. This project has been funded by the Greenwall
Foundation.
PAPERS:
Short papers on Heat and the Heartbeat of the City have
been published in the online Landviews
Journal of Landscape, Art & Design and December 2005 Hz
Journal #7.
EXHIBITIONS:
As a part of Biennale of Electronic Art in Perth/Australia BEAP, [R][R][F]2004
--->XP September 3, 2004, through 2006
Sounds in Space [Ääniä tilassa] May 19, 2005
23:00-24:00
Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE
Radio 1, 87.9 MHz.
http://www.aureobel.com/Sounds_in_Space.html
The
SoundLab Channel presents Polli's sonification of Central Park
climate data from 1901-2001. More information on the project available
at http://www.andreapolli.com/centralpark/
Ongoing
Project: ATMOSPHERICS/WEATHER WORKS
"ONE
PULLS ONESELF AWAY only with a strenuous effort of will. The
sounds inveigle their way into one’s ears, slowly, subtly,
insidiously inducing a sense of muted and desperate panic. When
one draws away, one cannot help but blink, dazed; one feels something
unenviable on the spectrum between that feeling of being released
into daylight after a long captivity in darkness and the feeling
that the daylight is itself merely another form of captivity,
an equally distressing and unarming tool for jarring the soul.
There is a lull, but it is only momentary. The sounds begin again.
They are like the wormword, nonsense imbued with terrible meaning,
burrowing irretrievably into the mind." -From a reaction
to Atmospherics/Weather works by Michael ‘Six’ Silberman
on fiveplusone.net
on
THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART'S ARTPORT:
<http://www.whitney.org/artport> Artport
is the Whitney Museum's portal to net art and digital arts, and
an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects. The
artport's archive of "gate pages," function as portals
to net artists' works.
Listen
to a WAMC Public Radio feature on Atmospheric/Weather Works in
Elevator Music 10
on
neural.it http://www.neural.it/nnews/atmosphericse.htm
UNESCO
Digital Arts Award 2003, Digital Pluralism Honorary Mention
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