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jennschmidt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:15:30 CDT

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Contact Us

jennschmidt — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:24:55 CDT

Please send inquiries and correspondence to:

Terry Nauheim
wishyouwerehere@terrynauheim.com

Jennifer Schmidt
wishyouwerehere@jenniferschmidt.com

www.wishyouwereheresound.com

Wish You Were Here

jennschmidt — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:22:43 CDT

interactive sound installation

www.wishyouwereheresound.com

Wish You Were Here
collaborative sound installation
Colin Asquith, Terry Nauheim, Jennifer Schmidt

A site for interactivity and reception, "Wish You Were Here" is a collective soundscape of audio greeting cards meant to be experienced within the hands of participants through physical and aural sampling. Our sounds are of field recordings, fragmented and manipulated to reinterpret the conventional notion of a sentiment in the model of a greeting card. Recontextualizing recorded material within this format places limits--including time, compression, and availability--while initiating an accessible, portable, and participatory narrative.

Systems of exchange become evident through the selective re-authoring and re-playing of these sounds, quoting a theoretical giver and receiver. Through the opening and closing of cards on display, the gesture of a greeting becomes amplified, defining a space that is, at once, personal and public, intuitive and mechanical.

Site Recording

jennschmidt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:13:53 CDT

Sound and Video Documentation Sound Recordings Siggraph 07, San Diego CA Video Siggraph 07, San Diego CA Recordings for Cards

Terry's Aunt Gail's music box

Recording old machines at WAVES, NYC

Artist Bios

jennschmidt — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:13:18 CDT

Colin Asquith
Colin Asquith (b. 1978) is an audio visual artist living in Boston, MA, who often works with music, sound, and video. He has worked under the pseudonym "L. Contra" since 1998 on separate music and sound exploits. The name itself is a Nintendo reference born out of improvisation with a Casio keyboard. Colin mixes found sounds, noise, samples, synthesizers, and acoustic instruments using tape recorders and computers. In 2003, his "X-Mas in Roxbury" and "Winter Lives" albums were released on Villa Magica Records, the project label of Swiss artists Sylvie Fleury and John Armleder. In 2004, he was included in a double LP compilation put out by Atlanta noise label Old Gold. Other music projects of his include: L. Contra Band, Conquistador, Mastablasta, and the Arrangement. The last several years, Colin has collaborated with artist Jennifer Schmidt on a series of videos, including: "What's in a Name" (2001), "Scan-Tron" (2003), "Letters in a Coma" (2004), and "Waterlogged" (2005). “Wish You Were Here” represents the first time he has worked with Terry Nauheim, and the first non-video based project with Jennifer Schmidt.

Terry Nauheim
Terry Nauheim (b. 1970) explores sound and visual relationships through digital media, drawing, and installation. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Bronx Museum of Arts; the Drawing Room, London; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Musée Art Contemporain Lyon; and the Sculpture Center, Long Island City. She was a recipient of Maryland State Arts Council's Individual "New Genre" Artist award and an Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks. Ms. Nauheim has an MFA from University of Maryland and a BFA from Washington University. In addition to producing her work, she teaches computer arts at New York Institute of Technology and New York University. She currently lives and works in New York.

Jennifer Schmidt
Jennifer Schmidt (b. 1975) is a multi-media artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who often works with printed media and graphic design to create sculptural installations, video, and screenprinted ephemera. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware in 1997; and is faculty within the Print Media Area and Graduate Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Pulsar Festival for New Media,Caracas, Venezuela, Cinema-Scope, London, UK and Miami, FL, International Print Center New York, NY, Candela Gallery, Puerto Rico, Test Patterns: Public Art Project, Baltimore, MD, Conversational Lag, Volume Gallery, New York, NY, Video Series 2005, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Canada, AIM V:SYZYGY, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, and Experimental Sound, Video and Film Programmation, Institute Jean Vigo, Perpignan, France. Recent curatorial projects include: Bit Logic, GASP, Boston, MA, Mybrary, BUILD, San Francisco, CA, and LINGO, ONI Gallery, Boston, MA. Jennifer is a 2007 fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Links

jennschmidt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:53:26 CDT

Colin Asquith www.myspace.com/twoheaded
Terry Nauheim www.terrynauheim.com
Jennifer Schmidt www.jenniferschmidt.com

Images

jennschmidt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:50:50 CDT