Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec | Brati glas
Reading Voice is an installation that explores indescribable zone in between a written word as an object in space and a spoken word as an event in time through the act of reading.
Using eye-tracking technology and self-developed software, the installation connects the elements of voice, looking, written words and meaning by sonifying the gaze of the reader’s eye.
This experimental setting accommodates a situation that brings to the fore complex temporal relations between seeing, listening, written word, meaning, inner and external voices that are unfolding while the activity of reading. Activating an instance of the pre-view of a view as a temporal interval that emerges in between sensing and making sense.
Public event: 28.11.2018 at 20:00
Vernissage: 26.-27.11. 2018
By appointment via email: projectreadingreading@gmail.com
Reading Voice is a part of artistic research project Reading Reading.
The research project investigates the experience of reading as an interface between our interior mental state and the exterior world, asking whether what separates the two is a temporal, flexible and virtual gap, as opposed to a fixed corporal/material border.
Software development: Darien Brito, Giuliano Anzani
Produced by: Zavod Sploh
Co-produced by: Zavod Projekt Atol
Supported by: Creative Industries Fund NL/ Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie– The Netherlands, Mondriaan Fonds – The Netherlands, Mestna občina Ljubljana, Ministrstvo za kulturo RS
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is Amsterdam-based artist with a particular focus in sound, new media, real-time interaction, and questions of contemporary mediation in relation to the sense of (bodily) presence. His recent work consists of spatial and sound installations, events and interventions, where (un)mediated sonic events act as central element that affectively evokes human bodily presence, while signaling its physical absence. His works encompass interdisciplinary and mixed media installations, sound interventions and electro acoustic music.
Born in 1972 (Ljubljana – Slovenia), he received BA at Trondheim Music Conservatory (Norway), BA in music composition and MA at Interfaculty Image and Sound – ArtScience, both at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague – The Netherlands, where he also followed Sonology course.
He earned his PhD in Artistic Research from Faculty of Fine Art at University in Bergen, Norway, where he was the recipient of Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship (2013 – 2016). In 2017 he took part in Research Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2010 his work was awarded at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz – Austria.
Since 2018 he is member of artistic committee of puntWG project space in Amsterdam and a member of artistic committee of DNK – Amsterdam, a series of experimental contemporary music and sound art concerts, events, lectures and exhibitions. Together wit Sascha Pohle, he is initiatior and organizer of Home Sequence, an exhibition taking place in the private homes of Amsterdam-based artists. In 2001 he founded international cycle of sound events, lectures and workshops Bitshift in Kapelica Gallery – Ljubljana. He is currently the recipient of Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Established Artists – Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent (2018 – 2022).
