Featuring: Scott Arford Jim Campbell D-Fuse Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) in collaboration with D-Fuse Granular Synthesis (Kurt Hentschlager and Ulf Langheinrich) Gary Hill Thom Kubli Fred Szymanski Atau Tanaka Steina & Woody Vasulka Steina Vasulka Stephen Vitiello Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut

Curated by Kathleen Forde and organized by ICI, What Sound Does a Color Make? includes artists who likewise use technology to inspire a renewed consciousness of highly un-technological experiences: physicality, human cognition, and perception.

Artistic interest inspired by the phenomenon known as synesthesia, a condition in which one type of sensory stimulation evokes the sensation of another, can be traced as far back as the seventeenth century. For contemporary audiovisual artists, the possibilities inspired by this phenomenon have expanded with the advent of recent digital technologies that translate all electronic media, whether sounds or moving images, into the zeros and ones of computer bits.

What Sound Does a Color Make? is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International, New York and curated by Kathleen Forde. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, bygrants from The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen e. V., Stuttgart; and by an in-kind donation from Philips Electronics North America.

The artists’ panel discussion is supported, in part, by a grant from the Experimental Television Center. The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and mediaThe Foundation.