We Are Art People in conversation with Mark Fell

Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, living in Rotherham, UK. His body of work includes electronic compositions and performance, sound installation, critical writing, educational systems and curatorial projects.We discuss software-based composition, the 'bendy' nature of traditional Indian music and the experience of poly-rhythmic compositions and synthetic sound. His practice is expansive and in response to the human condition, looking for possibilities that can reveal new insights and procedures for participating with digital systems.Mark's computational electronic compositions draw on both a compelling minimal aesthetic and complex algorithmic and mathematical structures. He has worked closely with Rian Treanor and most recently developed a collaborative open-source web based program — Intersymmetric. He is one part of snd with Mat Steel, naming their project after the extension often used for computer sound.Other collaborators include Yasunao Tone, Laurie Spiegel, Okkyung Lee, Will Guthrie, Ernest Edmonds and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff. Mark has released work on labels including Line, Editions Mego and Raster Noton. In public space, Mark has presented work at international institutions including The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), The Serpentine(London), Victoria and Albert Museum(London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), VAC Foundation Palazzo delle Zattere (Venice), Hong Kong National Film Archive, The Baltic (Gateshead), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Laboral (XIxon), The Australian Centre For Moving Image (Melbourne), MOMA(NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC) and in 2017 he was the curator of “The Geometry of Now” at V-A-C foundation, Moscow.Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice was published in 2022, charting Mark’s unorthodox theories on time, structure, technology. Mark has lectured on topics related to sound, performance, digital culture, and technology at institutions around the world.** trigger warning ** 00:04:00 - 00:15:00 social-political conflicts that exist in Rotherham, UK are discussed.Links:https://www.markfell.com/Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice [2021] https://www.urbanomic.com/book/structure-and-synthesis/Intersymmetric: https://intersymmetric.xyz/Show notes:Rotherham, UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotherhamThrobbing Gristle, The Second Annual Report [1977]Yamaha TX81Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_TX81ZMax: https://cycling74.com/Mohammad Mortazavi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbeAWK8yvwFollow @weareartpeopleSign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.