Department of Music

Sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello will give a talk on recent sound installations and collaborative CD releases. Vitiello's site-specific sound works often incorporate field recordings, combined with analog and digital processing and elements of text. Recent installations include The High Line in NYC; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA); and the kilns at Sydney Park in Sydney, Australia. CD releases include MOSS with Molly Berg, Olivia Block and Steve Roden on 12k, and Acute Inbetweens with Lawrence English on Cronica. Vitiello was recently the subject of a 27-minute documentary produced by Australian television, "Stephen Vitiello: Listening With Intent."

Stephen Vitiello is an electronic musician and media artist. His sound installations have been presented internationally including the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the 2006 Biennial of Sydney, the Cartier Foundation, Paris and in public art spaces including on the High Line in NYC and the kilns at Sydney Park, Sydney, Australia. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa), Box Music, a collaboration with Machinefabriek (12k) and The Gorilla Variations (12k). Vitiello has collaborated with such artists and musicians as Nam June Paik, Pauline Oliveros, Julie Mehretu, Taylor Deupree and Ryuichi Sakamoto. His work is the subject of a 27-minute documentary produced by Australian TV. Vitiello has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship for Visual Arts, Creative Capital funding in the category of Emerging Fields, and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music. Originally from New York, Vitiello is now based in Richmond, VA where he is an Associate Professor in the department of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University. www.stephenvitiello.com

Part of the Composition and Computer Technologies Colloquium Series.