Sound:frame

sound:frame is an organisation that holds an annual festival in Vienna, Austria, and an artist and event agency in the fields of audiovisual art, music, intermedia and vjing.^[1]

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sound:frame festival

Initiated in 2007, the sound:frame festival has been staged annually in Vienna, Austria. The festival activities focus on the link between auditive and visual media in the context of art and culture (interdisciplinarity).^[2] The name sound:frame stands for the combination and the equal importance of music (sound = the smallest component of music) and moving image (frame = single film frame).^[3]

The sound:frame festival features artworks and performances from the fields of intermedia, generative art, visualization (music visualization), music, media art, architecture, and design.

The festival consists of formats such as exhibitions, audiovisual live performances and concerts, and takes place in nightclubs and public space, galleries and art museums. Theoretical features such as workshops, panel discussions and the production of an annual exhibition catalogue are also part of the festival programming.

Each year the festival counts between 8,000 and 13,000 visitors.

sound:frame AV

The Agency for Contemporary Curating in Audiovisual Art & Culture – sound:frame AV is an Austrian agency which focuses on current international audiovisual art and culture and interdisciplinarity. Its activities range from curating to organizing exhibitions, events and research projects.^[4]

Initiator and artistic director

Eva Fischer^[5] has been a freelance curator and the initiator and artistic director of the sound:frame festival since 2006. In the same year she started working as a VJ (= VJing). From 2002 to 2007, she worked as an art agent for the Neue Galerie Graz and the Kunsthalle Wien MuseumsQuartier in Vienna from 2002 to 2007. Since 2011, she has been teaching «Audiovisual Media» at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna and, since 2014, she has been teaching «Experimental Media» at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences.^[6] Eva Fischer lives and works in Vienna, and has a Master's Degree in Art History. She studied at the Universities of Graz, Utrecht, and Vienna.

Exhibitions

2007/8 «sound:frame» sound:frame festival exhibition, Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna^[7]
2009 «sound:frame:remix», ACFNY, New York City^[8]
2009 «Evolution Remixed!» sound:frame festival exhibition, Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna^[9]
«dimensions» sound:frame festival exhibition, Kunsthalle Project Space, quartier21/MG, Galerie Kasulke, Vienna^[10]
2011 «perFORMance» sound:frame festival exhibition, Ottakringer Brauerei, Vienna^[11]
2012 «substructions» sound:frame festival exhibition, MAK, Vienna^[12][13]
2012 «Against the Specialist – Contemporary References to Arnold Schoenberg in Image and Sound», ACFNY, New York City^[14][15]
2013 «collective» sound:frame festival exhibition, MAK, Vienna^[16][17]
2013 «sound:frame collective», MediaArtLab / Manege, Moscow^[18]
2014 «a matter of...» sound:frame festival exhibition, MAK, Vienna^[19][20]
2015 «LIVE» sound:frame festival live exhibition, MAK, Vienna^[21]

Events and live performances

2010 Mapping Festival, Geneva^[22]
2010 EXPO, Shanghai^[23][24]
2011 Austria Davaj! exhibition opening, Moscow^[25]
2011 Metropolis Late Night, MSO, Melbourne^[26]
2012 ROMA JAZZ FESTIVAL, Rome^[27]
2012 Donauinselfest EUTOPIA DJ/VJ stage, Vienna^[28]
2013 Vienna Art Night, Moscow^[29][30]
2013 Donauinselfest EUTOPIA DJ/VJ stage, Vienna^[31]
2014 Donauinselfest EUTOPIA DJ/VJ stage, Vienna^[32]
2014 Salotto Vienna Opening, Triest^[33][34]
2014 philival, Vienna^[35]
2015 Kulturhauptstadt Europas, Plzeň^[36][37]
2015 Modepalast, Vienna^[38][39]

Academic work and publications

2014 Audiovisuelle Kunst. Entwicklung eines Begriffes – VJing, audiovisuelle Live Performance und Installation im Kontext kunsthistorischer und zeitgenössischer Entwicklungen, Eva Fischer, Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken^[40]
2014 SOUND:FRAME – A MATTER OF ... – Festival for Audiovisual Expressions, sound:frame, Vienna^[41] 2008 – 2013 sound:frame catalogues, ed. Eva Fischer, Czernin Verlag (2008 and 2009) and self-published, Vienna, Austria^[42][43][44]
2013 sound:frame. Vermittlung zwischen den Stühlen, Eva Fischer, eJournal «p-art-icipate» #3: GO PUBLIC! 2013, University of Salzburg^[45]
2011 «VJs» oder «VisualistInnen»? Der Versuch einer Kategorisierung, Eva Fischer, in: Im Kontinuum der Bilder, ed. D. Förster, L. Handel and A. Olbrisch, Cologne^[46]
2015 sound:frame – LIVE – Festival for Audiovisual Expressions, sound:frame, Vienna^[47]