Category: Project
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2008 |1500 Waters
The sound installation 1500 Waters was created for the group show Expanding in the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery on the Stanford University campus. 1500 Waters is a study of abundance and scarcity. The project set out to document 1500 instances of water during the Summer of 2008. The recordings started in California on the Stanford campus during…
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2011 | Released
Going to Waterbury: An Elegy was a a closing ceremony for Vermont’s Waterbury State Hospital. The “asylum” was permanently closed after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 made it uninhabitable. The site-specific sound installation Released was included in the ceremony and was created from original sound recordings made in the abandoned building. Despite the…
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2016-2018 | Calls From The Dark
Calls from the Dark is a sound installation that explores the intoxicated longings of animals and machines; it was created to be played outside at night at the edge of the woods. Originally installed for the Illuminated Forest at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont. Orb Song 3, 2018. Orb Song 2, 2018. Orb Song 1, 2018.
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2015 | Place Ravignan and Picasso at Montmartre
Place Ravignan and Picasso at Montmartre were included in the exhibition Staring Back: The Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon. Curated by Janie Cohen and on view at the Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT, February 3 – June 21, 2015 Place Ravignan In the process of creating these works, Karson staged and produced recordings,…
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2019 – 2021 | Intermedia Collaborations
Aquela Que Eu Queria Ser, 2021 Aquela Que Eu Queria Ser (The One I Wanted To Be) 2001 Co-produced by Paula Higa and Jenn Karson. Garden architecture by Ken Mills. Behind the Schemes: When Helen of Troy Came to UVM, 2019 In the spring of 2018, the UVM Classics Department produced the Greek tragedy Helen by classical…
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2010 – 2017 | Sound and Listening Workshops
SubAmbient SoundLabMapping Found SoundsSounds of the Earth, Sea and Sky SubAmbient SoundLab SubAmbient Sound refers to sounds discovered through excavation, sounds found below the surfaces of things and places. What seemed solid and fixed is revealed as changing, resonant and alive. The SubAmbient Sound Workshop provides opportunities for participants to engage with new pathways of…
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2019 – Ongoing | Tessellation Modules
An ever-growing set of hexagons that are assembled, dissembled and reassembled by maker-artists.
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2014 – Ongoing | UVM FabLab
Jenn is the director of the University of Vermont FabLab, a digital fabrication and educational lab that supports student expertise and peer-to-peer mentoring; a student staff runs its day-to-day operations. In an average year over 700 projects go through the lab serving courses in the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences…