Summary

“By taking these exhibitions as case studies, this essay considers the crucial role of the sense of touch, coupled with the importance of the conjunction between the senses of sight and hearing”.

“ability to mechanize and automate the connection between seeing and hearing. The fascination with automation laid the foundations for a visual
and sonorous event free of human interference in its operation.”

Inside the White Cubbe: The ldeology of the Gallery Space by the artist Brian O’Doherty. Published just a few years before the exhibition in Berlin, O’Doherty’s book discussed the mediated environment of the modernist gallery which is in fact integrated into the artworks, content.

“the exhibitions mentioned here emphasised the senses of sight, hearing and touch and yet the discourse around those events as well as the remaining documentary material is primarily visually driven” (p512)

“the connection between arts and crafts?

Artists

Luigi Russolo

Man Ray

Christina Kubisch

Bernard Leitner

Critical Reflection

more ontology: “a category which incorporated technological developments in music reproduction and electronic instruments” (Noy p511)

Klangobjekte – “where composers and visual artists used mechanical and electronic techniques” (ibid)

Conclusion / Future Work

References

Akademie der Künste (1980) Für Augen und Ohren : von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment ; Objekte, Installationen, Performances in der Akademie der Künste.

DeBord, G (1967) Society of the Spectacle. publisher?

O’Doherty (??) Inside the White Cube: The ldeology of the Gallery Space . publisher?

Glossary

curator:

Kantian?

Greenbergian?