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I specialize in sound.

I am available for workshops, artist talks, access consulting, and sound composition work.

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​My research and creative expertise encompasses:

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• sound design, sound composition

• accessibility in sound arts and experimental music

• language, the voice, poetry, text-based art, alt-text

• speculative media studies and emerging technologies

• scoring for film, video games, and new media projects. 

• the political phenomena of sound

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SELECTED PAST WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS:​

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• Cold Read: Divination, sound, and poetry. Workshop. The University of the Underground. 

• Sound for Performance and Installation. Workshop. Video Poll Media Arts Center. 

• Cold Read: Psychic actors and sound interventions. Workshop. SAW Video. 

• Mirror for Recluses. Conference presentation. Tuning Speculation Occulture York University.  

• Sound, the Voice and Loss. Artist talk. MAWA.

• The Yolk of Menial Light. Artist talk. aceartinc..

• Column of Heaven. New Media Art in the Greater Lakes Region Symposium, University of Oakland. ​​

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SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS: ​

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• Guest Curator, Send + Receive Festival of Sound Art.

• Guest Curator Cluster New Media + Integrated Arts Festival. 

• Exhibibition Coordinator. Art From the Heart. Accessible Art Fair supporting disabled, low-income and marginalized artists with 100% of sales going to artists. 

• Elsewhere: Evan Sabourin. La Maison des Artistes. Co-curated with Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill.

• DAH-DIT-DAH. Quarterly experimental sound series Negative Space

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FORTHCOMING PUBLISHING:

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“Echo and the Chorus of Female Machines”. The Power of Listening, ed. Jennifer Stoever, NYU Press. 2025.

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SELECTED AWARDS:

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2022 MacDowell Fellowshhip

2022 Canada Council Explore and Create

2022 Winnipeg Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

2022 Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant

2021 National Gallery of Canada, Sobey Art Award Longlist

2020 Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant

2019 WAC RBC On the Rise Nominee

2018 Canada Council Explore and Create

2017 WAC RBC On the Rise Nominee

2017 Canada Council Explore and Create

2017 Manitoba Arts Council Media Arts Grant

2016 Manitoba Arts Council Creation Production ‘A’ Award

2016 Canada Council Project Grant

2016 Manitoba Arts Council Creation Production ‘B’ Award

2016 Winnipeg Arts Council Individual Artist Grant.

2013 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award Fellowship, San Francisco

 CONTACT : aorobertsao at gmail dot com