Douglas A Kahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3462449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas A Kahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahn |
| SIGNATURE | KAHN D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis
Prelude to Live Cinema
This article investigates the increasingly prevalent discourse of ‘live cinema’ as the name of a concrete practice and conceptual aspiration within contemporary media aesthetics. The author argues that this oxymoronic conjunction encapsulates certain fundamental questions recurring throughout the history of 20th-century art in its increasingly important intersection with both media technology and performance. Contrasting contemporary digital ‘int…
Introducing Sensory Studies
A Musical Technography of John Bischoff
John Bischoff has been part of the formation and growth of electronic and computer music in the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades. In an interview with the author, he describes his early development as a student of experimental music technology, including the impact of hearing and assisting in the work of David Tudor. Bischoff, like Tudor, explored the unpredictable potentials within electronic components, and he brought this curiosit…
The Art of David Tudor: Indeterminacy and Performance in Postwar Culture
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Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview
The artist discusses with the author his early career and influences. Marclay explains his upbringing in Switzerland and his lack of familiarity with American mass culture, to which he credits his early experiments in art, music and performance using records. Marclay describes the evolution of his use of records and discusses other influences, such as art school and the New York club scene of the 1970s
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the centu…
The Lyre's Island: Some Australian Music, Sound Art and Design
T he lyre bird was named for the shape of its tail and its Orphic propensity to launch into captivating song, but it is known for being one of the world's most remarkable improvisors and vocal mimics, taking from and transforming any and all auditive sources as though it were sampler made of meat, bones and feathers. Stories abound about some kid's squeaky clarinet rehearsals incorporated into bird's permanent repertoire or bird's variations on t…
Three Receivers
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde
Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the deaf century, conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, An…
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avante-Garde
Satellite Skirmishes: An Interview With Paper Tiger West’s Jesse Drew
Essay| May 01 1993 Satellite Skirmishes: An Interview With Paper Tiger West’s Jesse Drew Douglas Kahn Douglas Kahn Douglas Kahn is an associate professor of media arts at Arizona State University West in Pheonix. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1993) 20 (10): 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1993.20.10.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
The Tatters of Their Bodies: Drifting through "Dead Letters"
Track Organology
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The Tatters of Their Bodies: Drifting through "Dead Letters"
Satellite Skirmishes: An Interview With Paper Tiger West’s Jesse Drew
Essay| May 01 1993 Satellite Skirmishes: An Interview With Paper Tiger West’s Jesse Drew Douglas Kahn Douglas Kahn Douglas Kahn is an associate professor of media arts at Arizona State University West in Pheonix. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1993) 20 (10): 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1993.20.10.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Re…
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio and the Avant-Garde
Wireless Imagination addresses perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio art. Composed of both original essays and several newly translated documents, this book provides a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the deaf century, conceived and performed by such artists as Raymond Roussel, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, An…
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avante-Garde
The Lyre's Island: Some Australian Music, Sound Art and Design
T he lyre bird was named for the shape of its tail and its Orphic propensity to launch into captivating song, but it is known for being one of the world's most remarkable improvisors and vocal mimics, taking from and transforming any and all auditive sources as though it were sampler made of meat, bones and feathers. Stories abound about some kid's squeaky clarinet rehearsals incorporated into bird's permanent repertoire or bird's variations on t…
Three Receivers
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the centu…
Christian Marclay's Early Years: An Interview
The artist discusses with the author his early career and influences. Marclay explains his upbringing in Switzerland and his lack of familiarity with American mass culture, to which he credits his early experiments in art, music and performance using records. Marclay describes the evolution of his use of records and discusses other influences, such as art school and the New York club scene of the 1970s
A Musical Technography of John Bischoff
John Bischoff has been part of the formation and growth of electronic and computer music in the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades. In an interview with the author, he describes his early development as a student of experimental music technology, including the impact of hearing and assisting in the work of David Tudor. Bischoff, like Tudor, explored the unpredictable potentials within electronic components, and he brought this curiosit…
The Art of David Tudor: Indeterminacy and Performance in Postwar Culture
xxxx
Introducing Sensory Studies
Prelude to Live Cinema
This article investigates the increasingly prevalent discourse of ‘live cinema’ as the name of a concrete practice and conceptual aspiration within contemporary media aesthetics. The author argues that this oxymoronic conjunction encapsulates certain fundamental questions recurring throughout the history of 20th-century art in its increasingly important intersection with both media technology and performance. Contrasting contemporary digital ‘int…
The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis
Art (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Physics (5 works) · Acoustics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works)