The Chicago sound show at the smart museum of art, the University of Chicago

ABSTRACT

The Chicago Sound Show mounted by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago invited a number of local artists to produce site-specific sound installations that revealed both the possibilities and limitations of the medium.

KEYWORDS:

• Sound art
• installation
• site-specificity
• university museums

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/the-chicago-sound-show/.

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Notes on contributors

Ryan Dohoney

Ryan Dohoney is a musicologist and historian who writes on U.S. and European Modernism and Experimentalism in the 20th and 21st centuries. He serves as Associate Professor of Musicology in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University where he is also Associate Director of the Programme in Critical Theory. He is the author of Saving Abstraction: Morton Feldman, the de Menils, and the Rothko Chapel (Oxford University Press, 2019).