Sonic Acts: Modulating the Human Sensory Apparatus :: March 23, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. :: Sonic Acts Festival, Michigan Theatre (Screening Room) 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ::

With this program we take a closer look at how artists, over the last fifty years, have been using a broad range of cinematic techniques to investigate the analog and electronically induced play at the boundaries of perception. Ranging from stroboscopic patterns and psychoacoustic drones to visual chaos and pure silence, all used techniques tickle, hypnotize or physically assault the senses resulting in hallucinating trips, exercises in abstraction, and sublime audiovisual spectacles.

Modulating the Human Sensory Apparatus is guest curated by the Amsterdam based Sonic Acts festival, and presented by Sonic Acts’ co-founders and curators Lucas van der Velden and Gideon Kiers. The biannual Sonic Acts festival takes place in Amsterdam and consists of an international conference, numerous live performances, an extensive film program and an exhibition. Since 1994 Sonic Acts has developed a reputation as a progressive and pioneering international festival with a specific interest in contemporary and historic developments at the intersection of arts, technology, music and science.