Sonorama

About this book

Sonorama alludes to the audio-visual dimension and the tactile nature of the exhibited contemporary works including turntables and LPs, cassettes and recorders, CD's and new digital formats, delving into its sociocultural and questioned how they affect the commercial imagery that they generate. These pieces do not celebrate the technological advancement of each of these supports and devices, but explore alternative ways to use different uses to their regulatory function and its corporate purposes. Moreover, although these are technologies for music reproduction, the set of works presented here is not focused only in the domain of the aural. Participating artists include: Gustavo Artigas. Tania Candiani. Ulises Carrión. Emilio Chapela . Arcángel Constantini. Paola De Anda. Gerardo García De La Garza. No Grupo. Melquiades Herrera. Santiago Itzcóatl. Marco Antonio Lara. Lauro López Sánchez. Israel Martínez. Nuria Montiel. Quirarte + Ornelas. Kazuya Sakai. Benito Salazar. Guillermo Santamarina. álvaro Verduzco. Juan Pablo Villegas and Cynthia Yee.