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SUN RUN SUN ART + ACTIVISM > SHARON DANIEL

28 APRIL 2008 28 MAY 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER

“Sun Run Sun” charted a path Sharon Daniel is an Associate Professor
between environmental awareness and of Film and Digital Media at the
technological development, using sound University of California, Santa Cruz
as the medium to enhance both. The where she teaches classes in digital
project investigated the split between media theory and practice. Her research
the embodied experience of location involves collaborations with communities
and the calculated data of position, that focus on the use and development
exploring the individual experience of of information and communications
current location technologies through technologies for social inclusion. Her
a personal experience of sound. It role as an artist is that of “context
sought to (re)establish a sense of provider” - working with communities,
connectedness to one’s environment, collecting their stories, soliciting
and to (re)negotiate this through an their opinions, and building online
investigation into old, new, future and archives to make this data available
animal navigation using sound. across social, cultural and economic
boundaries.
This project consisted of two different
parts—a sound installation and a Daniel’s work is based on the
series of portable instruments to belief that advanced information and
take on a walk through the city. In communications technologies can be made
the installation “Dead Reckoning” accessible, useful, and empowering,
Yolande Harris reveals the patterns especially for under-served and
of orbiting satellites coming in and marginalized communities, through public
out of range and inconsistencies in art. Her current research is supported
how GPS technology locates the self in by grants from the Daniel Langlois
a longitude/latitude grid. The mobile Foundation and the Creative Work Fund.
“Satellite Sounders” transformed the
live satellite data directly into
a sonic composition listened to on
headphones as one walks through the
city. Live signals from satellites in
orbit, together with the performer’s
coordinates on earth, generated a
continuously transforming electronic
soundscape. Yolande Harris’s soundscape
questioned what is inside and what is
outside, what it means to be located
and what it means to be lost.

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