Audio-Visualism Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 - Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image

Steve Gibson and Yan Breuleux

Part I - ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL AND THE REVERSE - JOSEPH HYDE EDITOR

Chapter 2 - Technological Progress and Audio-Visual Practice - A critical and non-linear account

Joseph Hyde

Chapter 3 - A-V The Art of Audio-Visual Relationship

Matt Black and Nilly Brook

Chapter 4 - Hacking Technology as Art Practice

Richard Land

Chapter 5 - Override: An Experiment in Interrupting the Congruity of Audio-Visual Relationships Across Analogue and Digital Domains

Iris Garrelfs

Chapter 6 - Live Chipmusic Visuals

Leonard J. Paul

Part II – THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL USES AND IMPLICATIONS OF AUDIO-VISUALS – DONNA LEISHMAN EDITOR

Chapter 7 - Sleight of Hand: Co-Commodification of Counterculture In Audio-Visuals

Donna Leishman

Chapter 8 - Activism, Environmental and Non-Conventional Storytelling Within Audio-Visual Practice 

Mike Faulkner (D-Fuse)

Chapter 9 - “For what has not yet been heard”: Sonic Resistance in Women’s Experimental Film Culture

Holly Rogers

Chapter 10 - Otekhnóshera: Indigenous Visualizms and the Spectrality of the Technological Vortex

Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri (Jackson 2bears)

Chapter 11 - Global Narratives: Navigating Power and Presence

Christopher Thomas Allen (The Light Surgeons)

Part III - MOVING BEYOND THE RECTANGLE IN THE REALITY–VIRTUALITY CONTINUUM – YAN BREULEUX EDITOR

Chapter 12 - The Architecture as Instrument: Fulldome Visual Music Experiments at the Society for Arts & Technology (SAT)

Yan Breuleux

Chapter 13 - Multiscreen Video - The Affordances of Multiple Screens and the Spaces In Between

Rik Lander

Chapter 14 - Error is creation: 20 years of Art, Technology and Education. The Experiences of the 404 Festival

Gina Valenti

Chapter 15 - Beyond the Screen and In Between Art Forms: Ambisonics, 360-video and Audio-Visual Practice in Hong Kong

Ryo Ikeshiro

Part IV - MODES OF INTERACTION AND INTEGRATION – STEVE GIBSON EDITOR

Chapter 16 - Reframing Audio-visual Art through Affect and Becoming

Paul Goodfellow

Chapter 17 - Embodied Interaction and Audio-Visuals in the Performing Arts

Nuno N. Correia and Atau Tanaka

Chapter 18 - Sound-Driven Practices With Digital 3D Environments

Adriana Sá and Rui Filipe Antunes

Chapter 19 - Live Beyond Expanded: Pervasive Interaction and A/V

Matthew Tobias Harris

Chapter 20 - Total Media Audio-Visualism: Liveness, Embodiment, Serendipity, Agency

Steve Gibson

Index

Biography

Steve Gibson is an audio-visual performer and Associate Professor at Northumbria University. He has presented at many world-leading venues including ISEA2025 Seoul, 404 Festival Mexico City, and Cabaret Voltaire.

Yan Breuleux is Full Professor at NAD-UQAC. His research-creation practice focuses on visual music for fulldome environments, examining the interplay between narrativity, sensoriality, and immersion in audio-visual practices.

Joseph Hyde’s work incorporates a wide variety of influences in live electronics, audio-visuals and immersion. He is Emeritus Professor at Bath Spa University and is currently working for HVN Labs developing next-generation drone light shows. josephhyde.co.uk

Donna Leishman is a media artist, researcher and Associate Professor of Visual Communication and Digital Cultures, at Northumbria University. Her practice explores the ethics and politics of our ongoing participation with digital spaces and artforms and the social implications of this relationship.

“Audio-Visualism offers a rigorous and expansive reframing of the relationship between sound and image in contemporary artistic practice. Drawing on long historical trajectories of audio-visual practice, critical reflection, and first-hand practitioner insight, the book moves beyond cinematic models to address live, immersive, and socially engaged work. It captures the vitality and diversity of the field today, standing as an essential scholarly contribution and an engaging resource – an essential guide to where audio-visual practice has come from, and where it may be heading.”

Christl Baur, Head Program Director of the Ars Electronica Festival

“Audio-Visualism succeeds as a record of a field becoming conscious of itself. By placing experiential knowledge, Indigenous worldviews, and practice-led inquiry alongside critical analysis, the book captures audio-visual work at a point of heightened articulation. There is an unmistakable sense that these conversations are unfolding at the threshold of longer historical arcs, as tools, practices, and communities converge and are named from within. As the chapters accumulate, the reader senses a period of unusual creative density – one future generations will study not as background, but as origin.”

Kelly Snook, PhD, Music Producer, Sonification Researcher, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Mimu Gloves and the Harmonics Institute

“This book is a clear and authoritative analysis of audio-visual practice as a mature artistic discipline. Enriched by the knowledge of artists working in the field, it moves beyond screen-based paradigms to address the evolution of the genre. Both rigorous and accessible, Audio-Visualism establishes itself as the ultimate reference, presenting sound and image as a unified, performative language.”

Alain Thibault, Artistic Director of the Elektra Festival & Biennial, and AV Artist