“Seeing Sound” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

Seeing Sound
September 27 – December 17, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 6-8pm

Curated by Barbara London
Organized by Independent Curators International (ICI)
Seth Cluett
Juan Cortés
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Auriea Harvey
bani haykal
Yuko Mohri
Marina Rosenfeld
Aura Satz
Samson Young

“Seeing Sound” is an expansive exhibition that explores the recent trajectory of sound as a dynamic branch of contemporary art practice, curated by Barbara London—one of the world’s most influential curators of new media art and the founder of the Video-media Exhibition & Collection Programs at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.

“Seeing Sound” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery features ten artists—Seth Cluett, Juan Cortés, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Auriea Harvey, bani haykal, Yuko Mohri, Marina Rosenfeld, Aura Satz, and Samson Young—who are based in New York, Bogotá, London, Tokyo, Rome, Singapore, and Hong Kong. London brings this group of artists together in “Seeing Sound” as the culmination of many years of research and devotion to presenting media art. To London, “media art in its many forms continues to evolve and develop in tandem with new audio-visual tools and new ways of experiencing art, whether online, in museum and gallery spaces, or in new art venues we can barely imagine.”

The exhibition includes decomposing sound sculptures, audio-video installation, specialized listening devices, and the use of responsive technologies. The artists in the exhibition create environmental experiences, using sound as a sensorial and pliant material that enchants as an intangible but integral component of art and daily life. They incorporate this fluid medium into their experimental practices by working across disciplines and moving between music and composition, video and performance, sculpture and installation.

Through the integration and interrogation of sound, “Seeing Sound” challenges ideas about what art in a perpetual state of flux may be.

“Seeing Sound” is a traveling exhibition curated by Barbara London, with the support of Research Assistant Kristen Clevenson and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). This exhibition and tour are supported, in part, by Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) program and with the generous support of ICI’s Board of Trustees and International Forum. Crozier Fine Arts is the Preferred Art Logistics Partner.

This event is open to the public.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011
212. 647. 7778

Gallery Hours:
Monday–Saturday, 11 AM–6 PM

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