Sonic Acts - Travelling Time

Sonic Acts festival date and theme:
Sonic Acts - Travelling Time
23-26 februari 2012, Amsterdam

Travelling Time is the fourteenth edition of Sonic Acts, and its theme is the human experience of time. The ongoing development and application of technology challenges, destabilises, and changes our sense of time. Technological advances have produced a gap between ‘machine time’ and ‘human time’. Nothing is so complex and ambiguous as time, especially since also quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity have tampered with our straightforward concept of time.

Art, film and music have the ability to make abstract concepts of time tangible and comprehensible. In art, the relationship between time and movement creates a sense of space and art can make tangible differences and correspondences between machine time and lived time. In Sonic Acts XIV, Travelling Time, montage, rhythm and composition in sound and image intensify our experience of time. The festival is a quest for space, detail and meaning in time.

Sonic Acts XIV is a four-day festival of performances, lectures, exhibitions, presentations, and film screenings. It will also present a lavishly illustrated publication with essays and interviews.

Sonic Acts Travelling Time
February 23 -26*  2012 Amsterdam
* exhibition till April 15, 2012

For more information: http://www.sonicacts.com