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In Conversation: Erik DeLuca, ¡wénrán zhào! and Amber Vistein
November 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tuesday, November 4, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm, 6pm doors
In Conversation: Join artists Erik DeLuca and Wenran Zhao as they speak with Emerson professor and sound artist Amber Vistein to discuss experimentation, sonic textures and presence. Moderated by Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr.
Location: Media Art Gallery, 25 Avery Street, Boston, MA
Erik DeLuca is an artist and experimental musician whose projects respond to place and invite people to listen—both literally and metaphorically. Working across performance, installation, text, and community-based learning, he explores how power shapes what we
remember and how we communicate. His work has been presented at Kling & Bang, Fieldwork: Marfa, and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, and broadcast on Montez Press Radio. His writing appears in Public Art Dialogue, The Wire, and Boston Art Review. DeLuca is Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a PhD in Music from the University of Virginia. His ongoing collaborations with the 7ajar School of Creative Research/Resistance in Ramallah continue to shape his practice of listening and learning.
¡wénrán zhào! is a Boston-based artist working with code, language, textiles and technology. Her work augments objects and artifacts with custom software, exploring the textures of technology and revealing its political and cultural relevance to contemporary societies. She holds an MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design, with works presented at ISEA, the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference, Taper, and The New River Journal. She is a recipient of NMC Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, and member of New Inc Year 12.
Amber Vistein (they / them) is a composer and sound artist who delves deeply into the poetics of timbre, texture, and gesture. Their highly tactile approach to composition works to unearth invisible events, networks, and histories by introducing expressive imperfections that expose the submerged complexities of sound, the labor of its production, and its fragility. From 2017-19 Amber was a Composition Fellow with the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice program. They have also created numerous site-specific sound installations, including Growth Continuum for the deCordova Museum, and collaborated with film-video artists Justice and Hogan Seidel on the short films Murmur, Landscapes, and Let’s Look at Florida. Amber holds degrees from New College of Florida (BA), Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MFA) and Brown University (MA, PhD).
