Norie Neumark Explained

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.

Publications

Books

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

    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), and Down the Drain (2011).

    In 2007 Neumark co-curated the exhibition Weather Trouble.[21]

    In 2010 she co-curated Memory Flows at the Armory, Sydney.[22]

    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.

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: About Out-of-Sync . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210228064258/http://www.out-of-sync.com/about.html . 28 February 2021 . 15 October 2023 . Out-of-Sync.
    2. Web site: 30 November 2018 . Professor Norie Neumark . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230328141315/https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cova/home/people/centre-fellows/norie-neumark . 28 March 2023 . 15 October 2023 . Centre of Visual Art . . en.
    3. Book: Neumark, Norie . Voicetracks: Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts . . 2017 . 9780262339834 . Cambridge, MA . en . 987439286.
    4. Book: Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media . . 2010 . 9780262013901 . Neumark . Norie . Cambridge, MA . en . 456551197 . Gibson . Ross . van Leeuwen . Theo.
    5. Book: At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet . . 2006 . 9780262532853 . Chandler . Annmarie . Cambridge, MA . en . 964298072 . Neumark . Norie.
    6. Web site: New American Radio - Catalogue - Complete List by Artist's Name . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201905/http://www.somewhere.org/NAR/catalog/cataloglists/letters/artists.htm#neumark . 3 March 2016 . New American Radio.
    7. Web site: "Checklist for an Armed Robber" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100110153104/http://www.abc.net.au/checklist/insight.htm . 10 January 2010 . Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
    8. Web site: 1999 . Contact Zones:The Art of CD-ROM . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231002092755/https://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/ . 2 October 2023 . 15 October 2023 . Contact Zones . Cornell University.
    9. Web site: 2000 . XVème Festival International d'Art Vidéo et Multimédia - Prix de la Creation Multimedia . 15th International Festival Video & Multimedia Art - Multimedia Creation Award . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426012331/http://www.nat.fr/videoformes/FESTIVAL/2000/palm2000.htm . 26 April 2012 . VideoFormes . fr.
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    11. Web site: 1998 . Shock in the Ear - Awards - Special Mention . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160419203719/https://site.videobrasil.org.br/acervo/obras/obra/124949 . 19 April 2016 . 15 October 2023 . . pt.
    12. Web site: 1998 . Norrie Neumark . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220802131638/https://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/artists/neumark.html . 2 August 2022 . 15 October 2023 . Contact Zones . . ...exhibited at Artspace (Sydney), Artemesia Gallery (Chicago)....
    13. Web site: Arts & Culture. www.abc.net.au.
    14. News: Aug-Sep 1999 . Sound & Screen : Dead Centre: the body with organs - Norie Neumark and collaborators . 17 . . 32 . 15 October 2023 . Trove.
    15. News: Miller . Gretchen . Aug-Sep 2001 . The pull of the volcano . 39 . . 44 . live . 15 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201074724/https://www.realtimearts.net/article/44/5919 . 1 December 2022.
    16. Web site: Gegenort-The Virtual Mine. www.the-virtual-mine.net.
    17. News: Davis . Anna . June-July 2007 . Virtually the real thing . 27 . . 79 . live . 15 October 2023 . https://archive.today/20120914001031/http://www.realtimearts.net/article/79/8599 . 14 September 2012.
    18. News: 24 May 2008 . At the Galleries . . 1443-900X . Two photos: Maria Miranda + Norie Neumark: Talking About the Weather....
    19. Web site: 7 December 2014 . Final dispatches from The People's Weather Report . live . https://archive.today/20231015225357/https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/archived/soundproof/final-dispatches-from-the-people27s-weather-report/5930346 . 15 October 2023 . 15 October 2023 . . en-AU.
    20. Web site: 2007 . Research Outputs: Talking about the weather - Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230528192437/https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/talking-about-the-weather . 28 May 2023 . 15 October 2023 . . Research output: Non-traditional research output › Exhibition.
    21. News: Priest . Gail . August-September 2007 . Fine with a chance of cloud . . 80 . 15 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230204215534/https://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue80/8677 . 4 February 2023.
    22. News: Priest . Gail . June-July 2010 . The shape of water . . 97 . live . 15 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230203205232/https://www.realtimearts.net/article/97/9919 . 3 February 2023.
    23. Web site: Interdisciplinary Art - Multimedia Installation - Norie Neumark - MacDowell Fellowships: 2006 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220805202506/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/norie-neumark . 5 August 2022 . 15 October 2023 . . en.
    24. Web site: 2006 . Artistes résidents de la Cité Internationnale des Arts . Artists in residence of the Cité Internationnale des Arts . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230207073610/https://www.cnap.fr/artistes-residents-de-la-cite-internationnale-des-arts-1 . 7 February 2023 . 15 October 2023 . . fr.