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Sound Artist : Tamara Albaitis / Opening Event at boca
Thursday May 11, 2006 from 6:00pm - 10:00pm
BOCA (Bar of Contemporary Art) - CLOSED
414 Jessie Street
San Francisco, 94103 Get Directions


Recent work by Tamara Albaitis
May 10 to June 10
Silent Opening Reception: Thursday May 11 6PM-10pM
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 2PM-7PM and Saturday from 4PM-on

boca is pleased to present recent work by San Francisco?s Tamara Albaitis from May 10 through June 10, 2006. The opening reception for the artist will be on Thursday, May 10th from 6pm-10pm. Albaitis? sound installations are inspired by daily rituals, routines and herpersonal observations of the pervasive effects of audio-visual synchronization on everyday life ? the technological mediation of experience ? a concept that philosopher Paul Viriliodescribes as the ?sonorization of everything?. Albaititis? minimalist approach begins with her employment of the most rudimentary materialsfor sound ? raw speakers and audio wires, which become sculptural components for each work. The materials reference the entry into a world of replicated realities. Unlike the majorityof contemporary visual artists, hers begins with sound and the mechanical properties of amplified audio in order to articulate a visualization of the sonic form itself, which can then beexperienced site-specifically. With deliberate use of the floors and ceilings within the space, as with sound molecules, the black wires turn into what the artist describes as ?three-dimensionaldrawings? within mid-air. Her works free the mechanics of sound from its representative qualities into another space, which draws the observer into a new mode of audio/visualperception.

In Albaitis?s work, the speakers themselves, emanating everyday, unnoticed sonic happenings,start to embrace a vast amount of implications, metaphors, and language. She addresses issues concerning the way technology re-structures our personal and public space. Whereastechnological advances inevitably progress to become more efficient, faster, and more user friendly, Albaititis, in opposition, has chosen the simplest structure of sound reproduction inorder to provoke a feeling of primordially while at the same time reminding us of the deafening effect of the explosion of everything audio/visual in our daily lives.
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