boca is pleased to present recent work by San Franciscos Tamara Albaitis from May 10 through June 10, 2006. Albaitis sound installations are inspired by daily rituals, ruitines and her personal observations of the pervasive effects of audio-visual sychronization on everyday life - the technological mediation of experience - a concept that philosopher Paul Virilio illuminates as the sonorization of everything.
 
Albaitis minimalist approach begins with her employment of the most rudimentary materials for amplified sound - raw speakers and audio wires - which become sculptural components for each work. The materials reference the entry into a world of replicated realities and the silencing of art. Unlike the majority of contemporary visual artists, hers begins as an aural investigation and via the mechanical elements of amplified audio she delicately articulates a unique form of sonic visualization. With deliberate use of the floors and ceilings within the space, as with sound molecules, the black wires turn into what the artist often describes as three-dimensional drawings within mid-air. Her works free the mechanics of sound from its representative qualities into another space which draws the observer into a new mode of audio/visual perception and experience.
 
 
In Albaitiss work, the speakers themselves, emanating everyday, unnoticed sonic happenings, start to embrace a vast amount of implications, metaphors, and language. She addresses issues concerning the way technology re-structures our personal and public space. Whereas technological advances inevitably progress to become more efficient, faster, and more user friendly, Albaitis, in opposition, has chosen the simplest structure of sound reproduction in order to provoke a feeling of primordiality. At the same time she reminds us of the deafening effect of the explosion of everything audio/visual in so many aspects of daily life.

 

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