Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art (MIT Press)

He has edited other ZKM volumes published by the MIT Press, including, most recently, The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds.. About the AuthorPeter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He has edited other ZKM volumes published by the MIT Press, including, most recently, The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established Sound Art as an artistic genre in its own right, with an accepted genealogy that begins with Futurism, Dada, and Fluxus, as well as disciplinary classifications that effectively restrict artistic practice to particular tools and venues. This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. This book, companion volume to a massive 2012-2013 exhibition at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, goes beyond these established disciplinary divides to chart the evoluti