:: museum of rumour ::
documentation CUBE2 :: 5.19 - 6.4
website turbulence.org/studios/rumor/museum
The Museum of Rumour is both an internet work and a site specific installation.
In December 2003, the Museum was installed in several unused storage rooms at Sydney College of the Arts.
This building had previously been the site of Callan Park, an asylum for the insane. Over the years, as with many old buildings, there have been constant reports of strange sounds and odd sightings. The buildings seem full of unheard rumours, sighs and noises.
The museum was 'installed' in what today is the auditorium but was once the dining rooms for the inmates of the aslyum. On arrival visitors were given the 'chladni-audiometer' and a map to help them navigate around the rumour sites. Six rumour sites were carefully chosen. The rooms were left as found except for the museum signage placed at each rumour site. Visitors moved from site to site and could hear the rumours through their audiometers.
about the artists
Out-of-Sync
is a collaboration between Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda.
We have been working together for over 10 years, beginning in radio and then from the early ‘90s making work with CD-Roms, installations, websites and net art installations. We are interested in working with the fictive possibilities of the net -- playing on the borderland between fiction and reality.
Maria Miranda (aka Max) is a visual/new media artist. Recently (2003) she completed her MVA at Sydney College of the Arts. She has worked as a graphic designer, been involved in community radio and drawn comix. In 1989 she co-edited Drawing Away, an australian women's comic book.
Norie Neumark is a sound/radio and new media artist. Her radiophonic works have been commissioned and broadcast by the Listening Room, ABC Classic FM in Australia and broadcast by New Radio and the Performing Arts in the US. Norie is Associate Professor in Media Arts and Production at the University of Technology, Sydney. Norie recently collaborated on an ABC/UTS project: a radio/internet drama Checklist for an Armed Robber. She is currently co-editing a book for MIT Press on the pre-history of the internet, At a Distance: precursors to internet art and activism.