Spain/Chicago Artists-in-Residence Announcement
Announcing! Paul Hertz (Chicago) and Ginebra Raventós (Spain) are this year's Spain/Chicago Artists-in-Residence!
During the residency, Paul plans to exhibit recent prints created by mapping audio signals to space-filling curves and to present a live performance where sound is captured and transcoded to a digital image where it is processed and glitched and then output again as audio.
Gienbra plans to research/create/produce some parts of her current sound investigation focusing on Diana Deutsch’s “Phantom Words”, and exploring spatiality, multi-channeling and diverse languages.
This project is a collaboration between ESS, the Embassy of Spain, and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
About Ginebra Raventós
Poet and sound artist. Her field of research crosses the voice, the word, the collective unconscious and psychoacoustics through sound, space and the moving image. She investigates the possibilities of expanding the field of action of poetry beyond the word in the text. In her pieces, she displays her poetic universe, where voice, action, sound, image, space and text are intermingled in an indispensable whole. In her works, she also explores the idea of repetition and trance, that is, the alteration of consciousness understood as the displacement to a new mental space and perceptual world.
About Paul Hertz
Paul Hertz is an independent artist, printmaker, and curator who works with algorithmic processes. From 1971 to 1983, he lived and worked in Spain, where he collaborated with actors and musicians.He taught for many years at the School of the Art Institute and Northwestern University. He has exhibited his archival pigment prints and interactive installations at numerous international media festivals, conferences, and symposia. HIs recent collaborative works include Fools Paradise, a VR world created with composer Stephen Dembski, that toured venues worldwide, and Campos | Temporales, an intermedia experience for live music (recorded at ESS) and video animation that opened at 150 Media Stream, Chicago, in 2022.