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Gemma Crowe

Non-Regular Faculty

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Education:

BFA
MFA

Bio

Gemma Crowe is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working across sound installation, performance and spatial media. Her practice develops Embodied Sonic Design, composing sound through movement using spatial audio, tactile transducers and microcontroller-based systems. Gemma’s research has been published in “Sonic Design: Explorations Between Art and Science” and “Ecocene,” supported by the B.C. Arts Council. Recent works have been presented at Surrey Art Gallery, Alternator Centre and POMO Arts. Her work is informed by collaborations with disability arts practitioners across film and media production, informing an approach that engages sensory access, embodiment, relational perception and non-normative modes of listening.

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Research Interests

Sound, movement, performance, embodied listening, sensory access, spatial audio, sound installation, interactive and responsive media, tactile and multisensory experience, embodiment, new media, disability arts, acoustic ecology, experimental listening practices, sound and space, movement sensing, interdisciplinary performance, practice-based research, immersive media, sound pedagogy.

Thesis Supervision

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Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
New Media + Sound NMSA 400 26/FA

Description

Offered to New Media + Sound Arts majors, this course provides students with the opportunity to propose and develop a self-directed body of work. Sections are taught by a single faculty member or offered in a team-taught model. The emphasis is on students developing a body of work that is intellectually and artistically sophisticated as well as undertaking research to support their emerging practice. Students will participate in presentations, critiques, discussions of readings and ongoing, self-directed projects as well as preparing their own bodies of work for exhibition and/or applied presentation. Students meet regularly for group seminars as well as in one-to-one tutorials with their instructor(s). Critiques and discussions complement student production where considerable independent time and maturity is expected.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.