Westinghouse (title TBD) is a sensorial multi-channel sound and video installation that combines actuality films of Westinghouse Works factories from the early 20th century, spatialized sound, and an interactive environment. Reanimating the archive 120 years after their original exhibition at the St. Louis World's Fair creates an immersive yet otherworldly encounter that questions the “past” as past and asks viewers to consider their relationship to time, technology, resources, and ways of seeing as embodied and transhistorical.
Meet artists Jennifer Boles and Stephan Moore and take a tour of their new work-in-progress. Westinghouse [working title] is a sensorial multi-channel sound and video installation that combines archival actuality films of Westinghouse Works factories at the turn of the 20th century, spatialized sound, and an interactive environment. Reanimating the archive 120 years after their original exhibition creates an immersive yet otherworldly encounter that questions the “past” as past and asks viewers to consider their relationship to time, technology, resources, and ways of seeing as embodied and transhistorical.
Bios:
Jennifer Boles is a filmmaker and artist whose work bridges experimental, documentary, art installation, and history and examines connections between archives, landscapes, time, labor, extraction, and ecology. Her work has exhibited as site-specific and gallery installations and theatrically in festivals such as Antimatter Film Festival, Chicago International, New Orleans Film Festival, Alchemy Arts, Mimesis Documentary Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Florida Experimental Film Festival, Chicago Underground, and others. She received a Ph.D. in History at Indiana University in 2015 and an MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern University in 2019. She is currently Assistant Professor in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University where she teaches photo history, film studies, history, and theory, and documentary and experimental film production in the undergraduate program and the MFA Program. https://www.jenboles.net/
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Stephan Moore is a sound artist, designer, composer, improviser, programmer, engineer, teacher, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvisational outbursts, sound installations, scores for collaborative performances, algorithmic compositions, interactive art, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Much of his work has been realized in collaborative projects, most notably with sound artist Scott Smallwood in their duo Evidence and with choreographer Yanira Castro in the collective a canary torsi. He is the curator of sound art for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, organizing annual exhibitions since 2014. He is also the president of Isobel Audio LLC, which builds and sells his Hemisphere loudspeakers. He was the music coordinator and touring sound engineer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2004-10), and has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Anthony McCall, and Animal Collective, among many others. In 2019, he co-founded the Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theater to promote and encourage the creation of multichannel audio works. He teaches in the Sound Arts and Industries program at Northwestern University. https://oddnoise.com