I hope you will join me at 7PM this Friday evening, Feb. 18 for a special presentation by sound and media artist Jay Needham, at The (New) Corpse, 1511 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd floor, Chicago, Illinois 60622.

Jay will present selections from recent works in a lecture titled Ars Memoria: Several Alternate Histories of Place. Jay will be finishing a chapter on the sounds of Mashinima and planning an evening of radio art and surround sound works for the April 2011 Out of the Box Contemporary Music Festival in Carbondale, Illinois. Jay is an Associate Professor in the Communications Department at Southern Illinois University, and a member of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE).

Jay’s media art engages the ecology, memory, and narratives of place in diverse environments such as Antarctica, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, and the Panama Canal Zone. He has an extensive history of international exhibitions and broadcasts employing film, video, sound installations, and works for radio. Listen and watch examples of Jay’s fascinating work at http://www.wavespace.org/

Please enter The (New) Corpse via the black door next to the Singer Sewing Machine shop. (Following our meeting, walk up the street and catch the 9PM concert at Enemy, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor. Performing: Robert Turman, Olivia Block with Lou Mallozzi, and Startless.)

Jay Needham’s presentation is free and open to the public, the second in a series of monthly meetings organized by the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and World Listening Project. To learn more about our efforts https://mwsae.org, and http://www.worldlisteningproject.org. The MSAE also has a Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Midwest-Society-for-Acoustic-Ecology/118813283125

Coming up in March, Viv Corringham comes to Chicago to talk about her Shadow-walks project. Please check back on the MSAE website for updates, as we add soundwalks, workshops, and other public events to our Spring and Summer 2011 schedule.