Sound and social focus for digital residency

Luke Munn, a New Zealand sound artist well known for his socially focused arts practice, has been selected as the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence on The Big Idea website, a partnership project between CoLab and The Big Idea.

Luke Munn’s project is called The Big Room and members of The Big Idea online community are invited to contribute an audio recording of the room they work or live in as their contribution to a fluctuating sonic space to be shared on The Big Idea.

As part of a capability building strategy to support Research and Development, the creation of new digital art work, knowledge sharing & collaboration and the development of partnerships, The Big Idea | CoLab Digital Residency provides Luke Munn with a unique opportunity to use The Big Idea website as both the source of and the location for a unique digital sound work.

Luke Munn’s work centres around re-activating and re-presenting real world sound via site-specific performances and projects that often use the architecture of a space, objects from the audience, field recordings of an area, or historically or socially derived audio. As former Online Curator for Window, Auckland, he has curated dozens of web-based shows with international artists. His projects have been featured in the Centre de Cultura Contempor‡nia de Barcelona, Spiel Festival Austria and Ohrenhoch Berlin, with recent commissions by Aotearoa Digital Arts and Creative New Zealand. His unique performances have been given in Paris, Dublin, Berlin, Chicago, and New York, amongst others.

The Big Room is now open for submissions. Contribute a recording of your room here.