Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics

This book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes to the non-institutionalized forms of sonic creativity in contemporary digital culture. In doing so, it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, rooted in Pragmatist aesthetics, affordance theory and postcritique. Combining artwork analyses with qualitative studies, it focuses on three principal aspects of participatory sound art: the ways the materialities of the artworks facilitate and structure the participatory processes; the interplay of the creative agencies of the artists and the participants; and the postcritical approach to sound art's politics, unfolding through the participants' affective gestures. In considering these multiple dimensions, this book contributes to the growing fields of sound studies and participation studies, as well as to curatorial practice regarding sound art and participatory art.

Author: Vadim Keylin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/21/2023
Pages: 155
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9789819963560

About the Author
Vadim Keylin holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and is currently a research associate in the ERC project "Poetry in the Digital Age" (University of Hamburg). He has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on experimental musical instruments, interactive sound art and sound in participatory culture.