Norie Neumark

Norie Neumark is a sound and media artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She is part of the art group Out-of-Sync, an art collaboration with Maria Miranda.^[1]

Work

Neumark was Professor of Media Art at University of Technology, Sydney, where she was founding Director of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation (CMAI) at UTS.^[2]

Neumark is founding editor of Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, and founding director of the Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University in Melbourne. She is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.^[when?][2]

Publications

Books

• Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts. (2017). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.^[3]
• Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media. (2010). Co-edited with Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.^[4]
• At a Distance: Precursors to Internet Art and Activism. (2006). Co-edited with Annemarie Chandler. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.^[5]

Radio essays and media art

In the 1990s Neumark made a series of audio essays for the Listening Room, the premier radio arts program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Radio National). Several were also broadcast on New American Radio.^[6]

Radiophonic essays include

Jobs for the Girls, or What Do You See When You Look in the Mirror? (1991)

Into the Interface (1994)

Shock (1995)

Separation Anxiety: not the truth about alchemy (1996)

Dead Centre: the body with organs (1998)

Esprit de Corps: oscillating with emotion (1999)

First Report (2003)

In 2003 she initiated and collaborated on the radio/internet drama Checklist for an Armed Robber. This was an ABC/UTS project.^[7]

In the 1990s Neumark initiated several projects in new media art, exploring the potential for sound in the new medias. Initially, she made CDROM art, making one of the first Australian art CDROMs, the multi-award-winning Shock in the Ear, with an innovative use of sound. It was one of the first CDROMs to be funded by the Australian Film Commission (1997). Shock in the Ear was included in the international CDROM exhibition Contact Zones: the art of CDROM, curated by Timothy Murray. (1999)^[8]

Awards for Shock in the Ear

• First Prize for multimedia, VideoFormes 2000 (Clermont Ferrand, 2000)^[9]
• First Prize for experimental CD-ROM, ATOM awards (Melbourne, 1999)
• First Prize, CD-ROM award at COMTECart (Dresden, 1998) --CynetArt replaced COMTECart in 2001^{[10][better source needed]}
• Silver Medal at Invision 98 (San Francisco, 1998)
• Third Prize in the National Digital Art Awards (Brisbane, 1998) [First in CD-ROMs]
• Special mention at Videobrasil (São Paulo, 1998)^[11]

Shock in the Ear was also a new media installation shown at Artspace, Sydney (1997) and Artemesia Gallery, Chicago (1997).^[12]

Other collaborative new media installations

Dead Centre: the body with organs at The Performance Space, Sydney (July 1999) and in the ABC’s online zine Headspace "in the making".^[13][14]

Volcano a new media installation,^[15] Artspace, Sydney 2001 and invited to "Gegenort - The Virtual Mine," 2001, Germany.^[16]

In 2004 Neumark, in collaboration with Maria Miranda, made Searching for rue Simon-Crubellier,^[17] ostensibly a search through the streets and bureaucracies of Paris for the fictive street written about by Georges Perec in his celebrated novel Life: A User’s Manual. This project began a new series of mobile works, with searching acting as the frame and motif for performative encounters with strangers. Other mobile works include: Talking About the Weather (2006),^[18][19][20] In Search of the Inland Sea (2008),^[21] and Down the Drain (2011).^{[citation needed]}

In 2007 Neumark co-curated the exhibition Weather Trouble.^[22]

In 2010 she co-curated Memory Flows at the Armory, Sydney.^[21]

In addition to other awards, Neumark has had residencies at both the MacDowell Colony^[23] in New Hampshire in 2006 and the Cité internationale des arts^[24] in Paris in 2006.^[2]

References

1. "About Out-of-Sync". Out-of-Sync. from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
2. "Professor Norie Neumark". Centre of Visual Art. University of Technology, Sydney. 30 November 2018. from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
3. Neumark, Norie (2017). Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262339834. OCLC 987439286.
4. Neumark, Norie; Gibson, Ross; van Leeuwen, Theo, eds. (2010). Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262013901. OCLC 456551197.
5. Chandler, Annmarie; Neumark, Norie, eds. (2006). At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262532853. OCLC 964298072.
6. . New American Radio. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
7. . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 10 January 2010.
8. "Contact Zones:The Art of CD-ROM". Contact Zones. Cornell University. 1999. from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
9. [15th International Festival Video & Multimedia Art - Multimedia Creation Award]. VideoFormes (in French). 2000. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012.
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11. "Shock in the Ear - Awards - Special Mention". Videobrasil (in Portuguese). 1998. from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
12. "Norrie Neumark". Contact Zones. Cornell University. 1998. from the original on 2 August 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2023. ...exhibited at Artspace (Sydney), Artemesia Gallery (Chicago)...
13. "Arts & Culture". www.abc.net.au.
14. "Sound & Screen : Dead Centre: the body with organs - Norie Neumark and collaborators". RealTime. No. 32. August–September 1999. p. 17. Retrieved 15 October 2023 – via Trove.
15. Miller, Gretchen (August–September 2001). "The pull of the volcano". RealTime. No. 44. p. 39. from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
16. "Gegenort-The Virtual Mine". www.the-virtual-mine.net.
17. Davis, Anna (June–July 2007). "Virtually the real thing". RealTime. No. 79. p. 27. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
18. "At the Galleries". Illawarra Mercury. 24 May 2008. ISSN 1443-900X. Two photos: Maria Miranda + Norie Neumark: Talking About the Weather...
19. "Final dispatches from The People's Weather Report". Radio National. 7 December 2014. Archived from the original on 15 October 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
20. "Research Outputs: Talking about the weather - Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark". Macquarie University. 2007. from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023. Research output: Non-traditional research output › Exhibition
21. Priest, Gail (June–July 2010). "The shape of water". RealTime. No. 97. from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
22. Priest, Gail (August–September 2007). . RealTime. No. 80. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
23. "Interdisciplinary Art - Multimedia Installation - Norie Neumark - MacDowell Fellowships: 2006". MacDowell. from the original on 5 August 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
24. "Artistes résidents de la Cité Internationnale des Arts" [Artists in residence of the Cité Internationnale des Arts]. Centre national des arts plastiques (in French). 2006. from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

External links

• Official website