CHRISTOPH COX

NEWS & EVENTS

New or Upcoming

• Participated in a panel discussion titled "In Tangible Noise: On Sound and Art," in conjunction with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's exhibition Obra Sonora at The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, December 7, 2024.
• Visiting theorist, Sound Arts MFA program, Columbia University, April and October, 2024

Recent and Past

• I did this hour-long interview for the podcast "Prod: Essays on Music Production in the Human Experience" (March 4, 2024).
• I gave a talk called "Events, Becomings, and Flows" in the "Visiting Artist Lectures in Sculpture" series at the Yale School of Art (September 22, 2023).
• My conversation with Valerie Mindlin recently appeared in November magazine.
• Moderator of the "Soundscapes of Conflict" panel featuring Guillermo Galindo and Raven Chacon, part of the symposium "Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today" hosted by High Line Art and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The Clemente Center New York, February 9, 2022, 6pm
• "Intermedia Sonic Art Practices," a virtual lecture at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, January 25, 2022
• The Swiss art platform Joyfully Waiting invited me to record my 2011 essay "Sound, Art, and Sonic Utopia" for its new "Echoes" project. Listen to the recording here and read the essay here. Launched December 26, 2021.
• "Sound Art: History & Theory", a virtual lecture in conjunction with the Artistic Thought Festival and the exhibition "La Suite: Artists and Works from the FRAC Collection" at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, launched in October, 2021.
• "Philosophical Concepts of the Real: Christoph Cox and Marcus Rautzenberg in Conversation,"" in "The Sonic Real (online conference)", Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Universität der Künste, Berlin, September 24–25, 2021
• Faculty member in "Curating Noise: Reverberations and the Polyvocal," a program in the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in conjunction with the Sonsbeek Quadrennial, Arnhem, The Netherlands, August 2021
• "'Perception is a Form of Sampling': Christoph Cox on Materialities of Sound," a podcast in Season 2 of the Clark Art Institute's series "In the Foreground: Conversations on Art and Writing."
• "The Politics of Listening", a discussion with Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Arash Saedinia in conjunction with the exhibition "Power of Protest" at The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar. February 23, 2021, 10:30am-Noon EST (6:30pm-8:00pm AST). Watch a recording of the conversation here
• Lecture in the series "On Sound: Unsound," hosted by The New Centre for Research & Practice, November 22, 2020.
• "Preemptive Listening," a screening, listening session, and conversation with artist Aura Satz at Triple Canopy, New York City, April 19, 2020 [POSTPONED]
• Public conversation with Tony Cokes in conjunction with the exhibition "Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This It's 2 Late, Vol. II" at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Read a transcript of this conversation here.
• "Preposterous Aesthetics: Photography, Phonography, and the Critique of Humanism," a lecture in the series "Tuning into Worlds: More-Than-Human Aesthetics in the Arts" at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, January 6, 2020. The lecture was followed by a workshop on "Sonic Metaphysics" held on January 8, 2020. Listen to the lecture here.
• "Tony Cokes's Iconoclasm," a lecture introducing Cokes's exhibition "Before and After the Studio: Volume II" at Luma Westbau, Zürich, November 15, 2019.
• "The Politics of Sound," keynote lecture at Re-Sound 2019 conference in Aalborg, Denmark, August 23, 2019. Watch the lecture here.
• I co-curated (with Jenny Jaskey) Season XVI at The Artist's Institute, featuring Marina Rosenfeld, Tauba Auerbach, and Alvin Lucier. February 21–June 1, 2019.
• Discussion with Milford Graves and Jake Meginsky in conjunction with the Queens International 2018 at the Queens Museum, New York, February 10, 2019.
• Discussion with Luke Fowler about his recent films at Anthology Film Archives, New York City, on Saturday, December 1, 2018.
• My new book has just been published: Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
• To celebrate the release of my book, Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics, The Kitchen is hosting an evening of conversation and performances. Turntablist Maria Chavez and electronic composer Jake Meginsky will perform solo sets. Artist Aura Satz will discuss the book with me. The event is free and begins at 7pm on November 3, 2018 at The Kitchen, New York City. (The whole event is documented here.)
• In association with the Artist's Institute, I organized a 50th anniversary performance of Hollis Frampton's "A Lecture", featuring a new reading of the text by artist Lucy Raven and a post-performance discussion with filmmaker Bill Brand. The performance will take place in the same room in which Frampton presented it in 1968: Hunter College, East Building, Room 1604, 921 Lexington Ave, New York City. Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, 6:30pm.
• "On Non-Visibility", a conversation with artist Tony Cokes and curator Sohrab Mohebbi, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, Starr Foundation Hall, May 23, 2018, 7–9pm. (See documentation here.)
• “Sonic Realism and Auditory Culture: A Reply to Marie Thompson and Annie Goh”, parallax 24, no. 2 (2018): 234–42.
• "Close Look: Sartre's Situations", a discussion with curator Horace Ballard in conjunction with the exhibition "Sam Gilliam In Dialogue", Williams College Museum of Art, April 10, 2018, 4pm
• “Milford Graves: Matters of the Heart”, Artforum (March 2018), 91–92.
• Colloquium lecture, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, October 13, 2017
• Colloquium lecture, Sound program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 11, 2017
• Visiting theorist, Sound Arts MFA program, Columbia University, September 19, 2017
• “Sound Art and Philosophy,” a seminar in conjunction with the Subtropics Biennial XXIV at ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, July 8–9, 2017
• Interview with Darwin Grosse for the Art+Music+Technology podcast, April 2017.
• ”Synaesthetics? Sound, Image, and Materialism,” keynote lecture at “Syncing … Subject, Media, Society,” the 25 Annual International German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley, February 24, 2017.
• “A Brief History of Sound Art”, a lecture at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Wednesday January 18, 2017, 8pm.
• “Sound Positions”, a group sound exhibition curated for CONTEXT Art Miami, November 29–December 4, 2016
• Interview in the podcast “On Listening #1: Thinking (Through) the Ear”, curated by Arnau Horta for Radio Web MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
• ”Hollis Frampton from A to Z,” lecture at the “Mediating Gilles Deleuze” symposium, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 15, 2016
• Gallery lecture on the work of Anri Sala in conjunction with the exhibition "Anri Sala: Answer Me” at The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY, April 7, 2016.
• “Between Dog and Wolf: On Sight and Sound in Space,” a discussion of the relationships between image and sound in contemporary art, with Natalie Bell, Lydia Goehr, Ernst Karel, and Marina Rosenfeld at The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY, March 24, 2016.
• Discussion on realism and materialism in contemporary art and philosophy with Jenny Jaskey at the University of Houston and DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, January 29-30, 2016.
• CONTEXT Art Miami, December 1-6, 2015 and CONTEXT New York May 3–8, 2016
• “Approaching Noise Music,” an interview with the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, April 20, 2015.
• Book Launch: Realism Materialism Art, ed. Christoph Cox, Suhail Malik, Jenny Jaskey. The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY, May 21, 2015
• Lecture: “Sonic Flux: Concept and Capture,” Electronic Arts Graduate Colloquium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 6, 2015
• ”Sound in Societies of Control,” “What Now? 2015: The Politics of Listening”, organized by Art in General and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York City, April 24, 2015
• ”Matter (in Several Phases)", Graduate Lecture Series “Sound & Vision,” California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, November 20, 2014.
• ”Sound and/as Sculpture,” at the California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, November 19, 2014.
• Contribution to a roundtable called “Recording Angels,” for the New Yorker, alongside David Grubbs, Pauline Oliveros, Marina Rosenfeld, Jace Clayton, Lisa Kahlden, and New Yorker pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones.
• Talk called ”Sonic Flux” in conjunction with the “Room Tone,” festival at Bennington College, Bennington, VT, Saturday April 19, 3pm.
• "Ethics", my contribution to “Whose Terms? New Perspectives on Social Practice,” at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, New York City, April 12, 2014, 1-5pm.
• "Matter (in Several Phases)," a talk hosted by the Center for Experimental Lectures at Recess, 41 Grand Street, New York City, January 7, 2014, 7pm.
• Talk at "Listening In: The Social Space of Sound," a public program in conjunction with "Soundings: A Contemporary Score" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, October 16, 2013, Titus 2 Theater, 11 W. 53rd Street, New York, 6pm.
• Talk at the "Tuned City Brussels" festival, Brussels, Belgium, June 27-30, 2013. You can find a stream of the talk here
• Talk at the "Sound Thinking" conference, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany, May 30-June 1, 2013.
• Symposium on Chinese Sound Art (with Samson Young, Dajuin Yao, and Wenhua Shi) at the Revolutions Per Minute: Ten Years of Sound Art in China exhibition, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Friday March 29, 1-3pm.
• Seminar in the Art & Law Program, Fordham University Law School, New York, February 26, 2013, 6pm.
• “Sound, Matter, and Idea in Contemporary Art,” Rewald Seminar in Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York, December 11, 2012.
• Roundtable at "The Status of Sound: Writing Histories of Sonic Art", a symposium at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, November 30, 2012
• Talk at "Ephemeral Sustainability", a conference at Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway, October 31-November 3, 2012
• Talk at the "Transmission Arts Colloquium" free103point9/Wave Farm Acra, NY, October 13-14, 2012.
• Conversation with Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the opening of his exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, MA, Wednesday October 3, 2012, 6pm.
• Gallery talk on the work of Max Neuhaus at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY, Saturday August 11, 2012, 2pm. This talk was broadcast on August 25, 2012 at 9pm on WGXC 90.7 FM in Greene/Columbia County, New York, a project of free103point9 online radio. Download or listen to the talk here.
• "How Do You Make Music a Body without Organs?", a radio program produced for Radio Enemy Beijing, directed by Yan Jun, August 2012. Download or listen to the program .
• "Submerge (Littoral Mix)," an audio mix produced for the London curatorial office SIM, July 2012. Download an mp3 of the mix here.
• Talk at Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, 7pm, July 17, 2012. Listen to the talk here.