Curated by Mendi and Keith Obadike
Not all of these works function as instruments, however. The audio of Mark Amerika and Erik Belgum's PHON:E:ME is a long, sonic essay on the smallest unit of speech. While there are interactive visual elements, rather than requiring participants to make audio, PHON:E:ME provokes the audience to listen and to think about listening.
The number, range, and types of sound art works online today were unimaginable ten years ago, when Negroponte imagined the Internet as a theater. Therefore, so is the way we listen. In the projects exhibited here, the line between instrument and artwork is blurred and the permutations on the mix seem limitless. Because the place where we listen is the Rhizome Artbase, we are positioned to think about the sounds of the Internet in complex and ever-expanding ways.
Mendi+Keith Obadike
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