Art Forum - Sounding Out; The Nature and Culture of Sound with Nigel Helyer

In Sounding Out we will examine a series of artworks that embrace art and science to focus upon the visualisation and sonification of environmental, biological and genetic research. Frequently realised as collaborations, Nigel’s projects aim to reveal subtle patterns and complex relationships that underlie natural systems, making them palpable in sculptural and sonic form. He is also deeply interested in ideas of creativity, imagination and aesthetics being common values shared by both scientific and artistic research.

Bio.

Dr. Nigel Helyer; is an internationally prominent sculptor and sound artist, whose interdisciplinary practice combines art and science to embrace our social, cultural and physical environments. He brings these concerns together in creative projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place; inviting us to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it. Principal web archive.

Nigel is a strong advocate for experimental art and is a specialist in art and science collaborations. He is also active in critical thought and is a prolific contributor to journals, conferences and broadcasts. He is a board member of the Paris-based Association Internationale de Critiques d’Art and was the founding editor and publisher of PraxisM the contemporary art journal of Western Australia. Nigel has authored several books, including Crayvox, The Deluge Ark(ive), Culturescape: An Ecology of Bundanon and When Science Meets Art. His writing embraces speculative fiction including the Graphic Novel Sonique and the novel Freeze Frame, a fiction about the relationship of Cinema and the Afterlife - designed to be accompanied by a forthcoming exhibition of the same name.

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