Category: Sonic and Aural Cultures

There is no mention of audio recording at all in this policy, however when me and my classmates visited the Tate with a H5 we were told to walk far away from the building. It doesn’t make sense that somebody would be able to take a picture but they cannot record film or audio, I…

Luciano has inspired me to take up repetitive daily practices. Each day Luciano draws a stone, he didn’t elaborate very much on how this helped his practice so I can only speculate, but I saw how practices like this could be beneficial for my practice as a whole. To practise small things every day will…

Working with communities to show people sound art who perhaps wouldn’t find it on their own is important to me. Felix’s lecture has inspired me to start getting involved in the local community. I would love to volunteer at some art workshops for children. To me it’s important to try and get young people involved…

Ring doorbells are a method of personal security, attached to the front of doors they capture the sounds and visuals of passers by using motion detectors, the police have access to the footage from the ring doorbells. Footage from ring doorbells is often posted online in matters irrelevant to security, the footage is used as…

Nobody is anonymous online, however there is a face value of anonymity that comes with having a username and a profile picture that people find different to the anonymity that can be created in the physical world. “von Hirsch has argued that expectations of anonymity, meaning nonidentifiability, protect a sense of dignity and autonomy as…

“The main ethical problem with this form of street photography relates to the subject’s vanity and sense of self. When street photographers produce and publish images without the consent of subjects, they express their own creative freedom at the expense of the subject’s right to editorial control.”  The subject of the picture wants control of…