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Leiter des Teilbereiches "Auditory Architecture" | Sound Studies (M.A.)
Lecturer | Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.)

Alex Arteaga is an artist researcher that integrates aesthetic and phenomenological research practices for the inquiry of embodiments, environments and aesthetic cognition. He studied music theory, piano, electronic music, composition and architecture in Barcelona and Berlin and received a PhD in philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been visiting professor in different universities and educational centers such as the University of the Arts Helsinki or a.pass (Brussels) and has developed long-term artistic research projects such as Architecture of Embodiment or Contingent Agencies.

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Sound Studies (M.A.)

Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.)

A research ecology

Architecture of Embodiment

Visuelle und Auditive Wahrnehmungsdispositive
ein - Forschungsprojekt der ZHdK und der UdK Berlin

Contingent Agencies

Theory

edited books (selection): …Through Practice (with Heike Langsdorf. Ghent 2021), Architectures of Embodiment: Disclosing New Intelligibilities (Zurich 2020), Thinking Conditioning through Practice (with Heike Langsdorf. Ghent 2018), Aurality and Environment (with Raquel Ribera. Madrid 2017), Architecture without walls (with Boris Hassenstein. Berlin 2016), Bodies in Action and Symbolic Forms. Zwei Seiten der Verkörperungstheorie (with Horst Bredekamp and Marion Lauschke. Berlin 2012

edited book series: Choreography as Conditioning (with Heike Langsdorf. Ghent 2018 -2019)

book chapters (selection): Aesthetic Research (in “Architectures of Embodiment: Disclosing Fields of Intelligibility”. Zurich 2020), Auditory Diagramming: a research/design practice (in “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methods. London 2020), Researching aesthetically the roots of aesthetics (in “Choreo-graphic figures: Deviations from the Line”. Berlin 2017), Bildgeneriende Bildlosigkeit. Klangumwelt Ernst-Reuter-Platz: ein auditiv-architektonisches Forschungs- und Entwurfsprojekt ( in “Planbilder, Medien der Architekturgestaltung”. Berlin 2015), Sensuous Knowledge. Making Sense through the Skin (in “Senses of Embodiment. Art, Technics, Media”. New York 2014)

journal articles (selection): Practices of Very Slow Aesthetic Observation: Steps to an Aesthetic Phenomenology (in RUUKKU 14 “Ecologies of Practice”, 2020), Embodied and Situated Aesthetics: An enactive approach to a cognitive notion of aesthetics (https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Artnodes/article/view/339679)

Practice

Video and sound installations: disclosing an architectural object. Tiefgarten(Berlin 2018), emerging environments. Tabacalera (Madrid 2015-16)

video installations (selection): disclosing an architectural object. MUA (Alicante 2018), emerging environments. ANCB (Berlin 2016), Linienführung (Berlin 2016), emerging environments. Architekturgebäude (Berlin 2012)

Sound installations and interventions (selection): disclosing an architectural object. Settlement 14 (Brussels 2019), near(ly) sounds. Espacio Valverde (Madrid 2017), near(ly) sounds. ANCB (Berlin 2016), transient senses (Barcelona Pavilion 2015), near(ly) sounds. Bauhausgebäude (Dessau 2014)

Video essays: transient senses: a video essay (Barcelona 2015)

Sound essays: transient senses: a sound essay (Barcelona 2015)

Sound pieces (selection): tempus. innerhalb temenos (2 Bass recorders.  2012), exploring temenos. 1 (Bass recorder. 2011), extended innerhalb (Piano, Fl, Cl, Vla, Vcl, E-Git. 2004), In loving memory of Lily Howard (6 Female voices and resonating space. 2004), innenzeit (inzwischen) (Piano. 2003), innenzeit (innerhalb) (Piano. 2003), sounding (out). space (Fl, Cl, Vl, Vla, Vcl, E-Guit.. 2002), sounding (out). fragility (Piano, Fl, Cl, Vcl, 1 sine wave. 2002), Inzwischen (Piano. 2001), temenos (Bass recorder and pre-produced electronics. 1996)