Bill Fontana (US)

Bill Fontana is one of the founders of sound art. His sound projects have been created since the 1970s as monumental spatial installations that reflect the sonic situations of specific sites. His projects have been realized at many of the world’s most important art events, exhibitions and public spacest, including the Venice Biennale, the Tate Modern in London, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, SF MOMA in San Francisco, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Abu Dhabi Festival, Ars Electronica in Linz and many others. He most often refers to his work as sound sculptures that use human or natural environments as sources of musical information. The artist says of his work: “Some of my new work (called Acoustic Visions) is an exploration of the image that makes the sound and the sound that makes the image”.