Stephen Vitiello
"I am interested in the physicality of sound and its potential to define the shape, feel and color of a room. I wish to explore how people receive sound and how I may create a work, with no visual component, that a viewer will be enticed into listening with the attention that they would give to a visual or audio-visual work."
Stephen Vitiello is a composer of electronic music and media artist. He works in mediums ranging between installation, internet, video, film, dance and music for audio CD.
He has collaborated with musicians, visual artists and choreographers, among them Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Constance DeJong, Nam June Paik, Scanner, Frances-Marie Uitti ... His music has been heard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Lyon), Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville), Texas Gallery (Houston), The Performing Garage (an off-site event of the 1997 Whitney Bienniale), National Galerie Hamburger Bahnhoff (Berlin), New York World Trade Center, Festival of Film and Architecture (Graz), Philadelphia Museum of Art ... on WDR Radio, on the web, as part of Tetrasomia (a project of Dia Center for the Arts) ... He directed the video Nam June Paik: SeOUL NyMAx Performance, 1997 - Dress Rehearsal and The Last Ten Minutes. He curated the Sound Art segment of 'The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000' for the Whitney Museum, and organized 'Young and Restless', a video program which toured to over 40 venues internationally, for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Recently, Vitiello exhibited a solo presentation at The Project, NYC in February 2002 and The Whitney Biennial, March 2002.
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