What Sound Does a Color Make? explores time-based work by artists who manipulate sound with image, and image with sound, in videos and immersive sensory environments. It connects the recent boom of digital audiovisual art to its pre-digital roots by presenting ten contemporary works by an internationally diverse group of artists and a selection of single-channel videos from the 1970s. Heightening awareness of human perception and cognition, these works hold interest for technophiles and general audiences alike. In one of the contemporary works on view, for example, made by a group of artists that includes Scanner (a.k.a. Robin Rimbaud) and D-Fuse (Kerri Elmsly, Mike Faulkner, Matthias Kispert, and Andy Stiff), the viewer is invited to bathe in a simultaneously soothing and stimulating atmosphere of electronic music and reprocessed video imagery.

The exhibition, curated by Kathleen Forde, curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York, is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue (with an essay by Forde and interviews with Steina Vasulka and Naut Humon) and a Web component.

Exhibition Itinerary
Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology
New York, New York
May 25 – July 16, 2005

Wood Street Galleries
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 4 – December 31, 2005

Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland
February 2 – March 18, 2006

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
New Plymouth, New Zealand
May 20 – July 16, 2006

Metroplitan State College for Visual Art
Denver, Colorado
September 14 – November 11, 2006

University of Hawaii Art Gallery
Honolulu, Hawaii
March 4 – April 13, 2007