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      The Now of History: Tomographic and Ficto-Critical Approaches to Writing About Sonic Art

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      RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology (RE:SOUND 2019)
      Media Art, Science, and Technology
      August 20-23, 2019
      Sonic art, sound art, sonic art theory, ficto-criticism, fictocriticism, sonic fiction, creative commentary
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            Abstract

            Sonic art concerns itself with the experience of listening, a sense perception markedly different to the visual. However the majority of commentary on sonic art utilises historical and taxonomical approaches dependent on theoretical structures that are inherently retinal. Expanding on Salomé Voegelin’s proposal for a writing that stems from a ‘sonic sensibility’ (2010, 2014) this paper proposes a tomographic (as opposed to a topographic) approach, one that is generated from the embedded and embodied nature of the sonic experience. It is proposed that this tomographic subjectivity forms part of a ficto-critical writing methodology, in which creative and critical modes are intermingled. Ficto-criticism allows for an interplay of percept and concept that is proposed as a suitable match for sonic art in which these similar tensions play out. A number of texts by writers identified as using tomographic and ficto-critical strategies will be used to illustrate this approach including Daniela Cascella, Kodwo Eshun and Joanna Demers. This paper reflects the first stage of doctoral research that will continue, by analysis and enaction, to develop a legitimate place for fictocritical writing as a rigorous contribution to cultural commentary about sonic art.

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            Conference
            August 2019
            August 2019
            : 57-62
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            [0001]University of Technology Sydney (PhD Candidate)

            38 Cascade St, Katoomba, NSW Australia 2780
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            10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.9
            08ed739c-24b1-428b-83e5-1faa36b47c49
            © Priest. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of RE:SOUND 2019

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            RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology
            RE:SOUND 2019
            8
            Aalborg, Denmark
            August 20-23, 2019
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Media Art, Science, and Technology
            History
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Sonic art,sonic art theory,sonic fiction,ficto-criticism,fictocriticism,creative commentary,sound art

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