Matrixes: Sound

Student Centre Gallery, Zagreb, April 15 to April 25, 2023

 

The opening of the exhibition will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2023, in the SC Gallery, starting at 4 pm.

The exhibition will be on show until April 24, 2023, weekdays from 12 to 8 pm and Saturdays from 10 to 1 pm.

 

Project participants exhibiting

Sound: graduates of the Graphic Arts and Art Education departments of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb: Andrej Beštak, Ružica Dobranić, Mihael Klanjčić, Petra Orbanić, Jelena Petric, Elena Štrok, Veronika Šindilj, Iva Zagoda, Lucija Žuti; Viktorija Križanović, graduate of the Academy of Arts and Culture of J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek.

Sound II: students and graduates of the Graphic Arts and Art Education departments of the Academy of Fine Arts of Zagreb University: Nataša Devčić, Anamarija Kvas, Ljubica Golubić, Vasja Irma Ivković, Ivana Krnjak, Mirta Vulelija, Nikola Marinčić; Martina Kruljac, student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb University; Nataša Belaj student of the Department of Instrumental Studies of the Academy of Arts and Culture of J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek.

 

Project leaders and mentors: Professor Ines Krasić, Professor Mirjana Vodopija, Iva Ćurić, Assistant, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.

Associates on the project – lecturers and workshop leaders

Assistant Professor Ana Horvat, Academy of Arts and Culture of J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek; 

Dr Davor Horvatić, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb; Dr Dario Bojanac, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb.

Sound – Damir Prica Kafka, saxophonist, pianist and composer; Sven Buić, MM, double bassist; Adam Donovan, media artist; Ketrin Hochschuh, media artist

Sound II – Zoran Šćekić, composer; Assistant Professor Marko Tadić, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb.

The Projects Matrixes: Sound and Matrixes: Sound II

 

Taking part in the projects were students and graduates who use sound as artistic medium in their work. The central workshops for both projects were held during week-long field research in Gorski kotar (June 2018, OLR Plemenitaš; July 2022, Tršće); teaching staff of the Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and the Academy of Art and Culture, as well as artists who use sound in their work, gave lectures about sound from various perspectives (artistic and scientific) and in different fields of art (music and fine art).

As well as lectures, each day there were presentations, workshops and discussions through which project participants expanded their knowledge about the phenomenon of sound and its discursive characteristics, exploring them from various angles, from the theory and practice of fine art and music art, literature and the fundamental natural sciences, maths and physics. Prompted by their new understandings, students and graduates, in collaboration with mentors, lecturers and workshop leaders conducted interdisciplinary research, devised and produced artworks based on sound. 

On show at the SC Gallery in Zagreb exhibition will be two sound recordings that were created after the poem Litra of Danijel Dragojević in which the narrative potential of the sound medium was brought out, and five pertaining graphic notations created during Matrixes: Sound of 2018 as well as seven sound, visual and hybrid artworks created in the framework of the project Matrixes: Sound II of 2022.

After the exhibition, a publication will be released combining both the projects, Matrixes: Sound and Matrixes: Sound II.

 

The Matrixes Project

The educational artistic research project Matrixes launched in 2016 is related to exploration of the concept of matrix in the expanded field of art, science and technology. The project involves collaboration among several constituent parts University of Zagreb and the Academy of Art and Culture University of Osijek. The collaboration of recognised scientists and artists expands the knowledge of all involved, brings out the need