The affects, aesthetics, and ethics of voice in the new materialist turn, explored through encounters with creative works in media and the arts.
The affects, aesthetics, and ethics of voice in the new materialist turn, explored through encounters with creative works in media and the arts.
Moved by the Aboriginal understandings of songlines or dreaming tracks, Norie Neumark's Voicetracks seeks to deepen an understanding of voice through listening to a variety of voicing/sound/voice projects from Australia, Europe and the United States. Not content with the often dry tone of academic writing, the author engages a ""wayfaring"" process that brings together theories of sound, animal, and posthumanist studies in order to change the ways we think about and act with the assemblages of living creatures, things, places, and histories around us.
Neumark evokes both the literal-the actual voices within the works she examines-and the metaphorical-in a new materialist exploration of voice encompassing human, animal, thing, and assemblages. She engages with artists working with animal sounds and voices; voices of place, placed voices in installation works; voices of technology; and ""unvoicing,"" disturbances in the image/voice relationship and in the idea of what voice is. She writes about remixes, the Barbie Liberation Organisation, and breath in Beijing, about cat videos, speaking fences in Australia, and an artist who reads (to) the birds. Finally, she considers ethics and politics, and describes how her own work has shaped her understandings and apprehensions of voice.
By:
Norie Neumark (Professor of Media Studies University of Melbourne)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780262553285
ISBN 10: 0262553287
Series: Leonardo
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Series Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Voice, Voicetracks, New Materialism 1 2 Animal Tracks: Affect, Aesthetics, Ethics 31 3 Ears to the Ground: Voicing Place 63 4 Technology and Machines Speak (for) Themselves 91 5 Unvoice in Media and the Arts: Voice Going off the Rails 123 6 Tracking Back 157 Notes 171 References 183 Index 201
Norie Neumark, a sound and media artist, is Honorary Professorial Fellow at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She coedited At a Distance- Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet and VOICE- Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media, both published by the MIT Press.
