Halsey Burgund
Education:
Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.S., Geology and Geophysics, 1995 (thesis pdf)
Selected Exhibitions and Commissions:
Patient Translations – audio/visual collaboration with artist Kelly Sherman about the experience of being a patient. Commissioned initially for the Healthcare Experience Design conference, Boston, MA, March 2013 and also exhibited at TEDMED 2013, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, April 2013
A Walk Through Deep Time – part of SCANZ 2013: 3rd nature group exhibition at Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand, Feb-March 2013 – collaboration with visual artist, Trudy Lane
ROUND:Cambridge – commission from Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2012 through 2014 – city-wide sound art installation designed to capture and re-purpose people’s reactions to municipal and academic public art collections.
Inglorious Materials – group show of five artists working with collage, Charles Bank Gallery, NYC – July-August, 2012
Music for Journaling – participatory audio piece commissioned for inclusion in Public Art Dialogue scholarly journal – July 2012
Dreamy Me – online audio exhibit for ||| art exhibition series – May 2012
Hotel Dreamy – audio installation commissioned by the Museums and the Web conference – April 2012
Mountain Ghosts – solo exhibit commissioned by the department of Visual and Performing Arts at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, Sept-Nov, 2011 – site-specific location-aware audio installation.
Voices Without Faces, Voices Without Races – solo exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston, MA, Feb-May, 2011 – 6-channel audio/3-channel video installation exploring personal experiences of race in eastern Massachusetts
Scapes – solo exhibit at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, July-Nov 2010 – location-aware musical audio experience allowing participants to augment the landscape with audio recordings and listen to those of others
Cambridge Street Project – group exhibit at Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, MA, April-June 2010 – gallery exhibition of ten finalists for large-scale public art project commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council
Aldrich Undercover – November 2008, 2010 – donated works on paper for blind art auction to benefit the Aldrich Museum
Beat Vox – Newport Folk Festival – August 1-3, 2008 – selected as ‘Artist-in-Residence’ for the 3-day music festival, presented interactive audio installation to both performing musicians and audience members
ROUND – solo exhibit at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, March-July 2008 – interactive audio installation remaking the traditional museum audio tour into a two-way communication
Aldrich Museum Art Lab Exhibit – Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, June 2007 – guest artist for Art Lab program, including music and visual collaboration on exhibit
2006 ICA Artist Prize – Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, December 2006 – composed music for Kelly Sherman’s video piece included in her winning contribution to this exhibit
Bring Your Own Voice – Museum Tour – voice collection/presentation tour to contemporary art museums in the northeast USA, including ICA Boston, deCordova Museum, P.S.1, Chelsea Art Museum, MASS MoCA, Portland Museum of Art (ME), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Dwelling: Memory, Architecture and Place – Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA, Jun-Nov 2006 – commissioned to compose music on Dwelling theme using recorded interviews conducted at the cemetery
The Thread Counts Project – GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA, Jan-Mar 2006 – sound/performance installation created with Leah Gauthier titled “Variations on the Theme of Food”
Selected Performances:
Ocean Voices – 30-minute surround sound musical composition and accompanying video exploring a collective human response to the ocean
- Celine Cousteau’s Ocean Inspiration – May 20th, 2011, Carnegie Institution For Science, Washington, DC, in celebration of 100+ years of Jacques Cousteau
- Museum of Science, Boston, MA – July 30th, 2010
- Premiere @ California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA – June 3rd, 2010; headline event for CAS World Ocean Day and Jacques Cousteau celebrations
elements | response – surround sound audio visual performance based on individual’s responses to questions about the elements
- First Night Boston 2010 - December 31st, 2009 at City of Boston’s New Year’s Eve celebrations
- Pixilerations New Media Festival – Providence, MA, September 26th, 2009, performance at juried concert organized by Brown University and RISD
- Premiere @ MIT Museum – Boston Cyberarts Festival, May 1st, 2009, surround sound audio visual performance based on individual’s responses to questions about the elements
aesthetic evidence performances – various band performances
- Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum – Ridgefield, CT, April 3, 2008
- Revolving Museum – Lowell, MA, October 26, 2007 – supported by Bedford Cultural Council
- Otherwise Uninvolved Individuals @ Boston Cyberarts Festival – Cambridge, MA, May 6, 2007 – supported by the LEF Foundation
- Art Interactive – Cambridge, MA, April 6, 2007 – performance with interactive video art by Camille Utterback
One Hundred and Four Thousand @ Forsyth Chapel – live surround sound performance at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA, October 27, 2006 – commissioned by Forest Hills Educational Trust
Grants and Awards:
Smithsonian Institution – received Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship grant to research the artistic uses of the vast oral history and spoken word archives at SI, 2011
Bedford Cultural Council – awarded grant to support Music for Journaling project, Bedford, MA, 2011
Celine Cousteau’s Ocean Inspiration – Ocean Advocate award for ocean advocacy through music, 2011
AT&T Corporation – donation of 10 iPhones with data plans and marketing support for Scapes installation, 2010
Artists Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation – grant to support Scapes, 2009
Bedford and Lincoln Cultural Councils – awarded grants to support the production of Scapes exhibit at the deCordova Museum, 2009
NOKIA Corporation – Community Relations donation – awarded donation of 20 handheld tablet computers for use in ROUND installation at the Aldrich Museum, 2008
LEF Foundation – Contemporary Work Fund – awarded grant to support exhibition of ROUND at the Aldrich Museum, 2007
LEF Foundation – Contemporary Work Fund – awarded grant to support performance and recording of new works as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Cambridge, MA, 2006
Bedford Cultural Council – awarded grant to support new music performance, Bedford, MA, 2006
Miscellany:
SCANZ 2013: 3rd nature creative residency - off-site artist resident for Intercreate multi-disciplinary program; created and exhibited new work at Puke Ariki Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand, February, 2013
Multimodal Approaches to Learning Conference - presented my work in the context of multimodal learning in art museums, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, October, 2012
LEAD 2012 Conference - presented my work in the context of museum accessibility to low-vision and blind people, Boston, MA, August, 2012
WebWise 2012 Conference - invited to present my work as well as the Roundware open-source audio platform at the annual IMLS conference, Baltimore, MD, March, 2012
ArtLab @ the Hirshhorn - co-organized and ran workshop for teens creating their own audio landscapes using the Roundware open-source audio platform, Washington, DC, October, 2011
Patagonia Music - Ocean Voices included in Patagonia’s philanthropic music initiative, March 2011
Mobile ’Untours’ Workshop - co-organized and ran workshop on alternative mobile audio tours for museums at Museums and the Web conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2011
Scapes Philly – in-situ demonstration of Roundware technology for 700 museum professionals at Museums and the Web conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2011
What is Scapes? presentation @ The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA – February 8th, 2011
Platform Discussion Series @ deCordova Museum – July 25th, 2010, with Geeta Dayal, author of “Another Green World” about Brian Eno
60×60 – International Mix – inclusion in cd compilation featuring 60 contemporary composers from around the world, 2009
Public Art Youth Council – artist-in-residence for Cambridge Arts Council summer youth program – Cambridge, MA, 2009
Score Board – selected to be charter member of group of ~30 New England-based composers serving as a branch of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s (BMOP) board, 2009-present
Mass General Hospital – February 2009 – commissioned by MGH’s Center for Innovation and Care Delivery to create audio experience regarding elder care using voices of doctors, nurses and patients
Axiom Gallery – Boston, MA, September 9th, 2008, ‘What is New Media?’ discussion panelist with George Fifield, Dana Moser and Helen Thorington
Vantage Points – Rogers Park Middle School, Danbury, CT, May 8, 2008 – led symposium on creativity and collaboration with ~100 fifth graders, including participatory music creation workshop
Ucross Foundation – artist-in-residence, Ucross, WY, March, 2007
‘Friday’s Flowers: The Wiki as Art’ – presented at Wikimania, Harvard Law School, August 2006
download my resumé (pdf)
extra-special blast from the past: “The Currents of Penobscot Bay, Maine” (pdf)
