| dc.description.abstract | The paper presents the interdisciplinary intersections and impacts in between new media art and sound practices.
Through the exploration of the formation and rise of interdisciplinary research fields, the paper presents an
exhaustive research about sound studies, science studies and sensory studies, among others, on their impact in the
construction of media art histories.
The interdisciplinary intersection between sound studies and new media art has given a new dimension to the
relations art, science and technology. Here is represented innovation and historical referents from radio art to EAT,
interactive installation, uses of sensors, software –based art, live coding, etc. It will bring wide and extensive
examples of artists that are actually involved in the development of New Media Art through the use of sound as a
technological medium, as a source for installations and artworks where the final results is a response to understand
phenomena such nonverbal communication.
It pretends to stress and give new significations to the definition of Media Art, amplifying its sources of research to the
relation between Art, Science and Technology. This could give a new dimension of what Media Art is. A part, this
research project focus in practices which Sound appears as a Media and according its technical characteristics,
sound is a very specific media, which requires particular attention. To analyse sound will contribute to a more
attentive production of media art because of the immaterial features of the media. | |
