June 7, 2004
Turbulence Artists' Studios: Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark (Out-of-Sync)
http://turbulence.org/studios/rumor
Needs Flash and Quicktime players, and speakers turned on

The "Museum of Rumour" is a 'fictive' work that presents ongoing
'pataphysical' research into the study of rumour. It is a sort of 'gay
science' of multiple and contrary theories–from the physics of motion
to the theory of six degrees of separation–in this case from Gertrude
Stein, a major figure of rumour. Other fictive works in the Studio are
"The Perpetual Emotion Project," an investigation of emotions as relays
and vibrations (according to Superstring Theory, emotions are the fifth
force–after gravity); and "Journey to the C/enter," a series of field
logs (flogs) collecting evidence of Jules Verne's rumoured journey to
the Antipodes.

BIOGRAPHIES

Out-of-Sync.com is a collaboration between Norie Neumark and Maria
Miranda. They have been working together for over 10 years, beginning in
radio and then from the early 90s making work with CD-Roms,
installations, websites and net.art installations.

Maria Miranda (aka Max) is a visual/new media artist. She has a BA in
Linguistics from the Australian National University, Canberra (1987).
Miranda studied graphic design at Randwick College of TAFE in Sydney and
recently completed her MVA at Sydney College of the Arts. She has worked
as a graphic designer and drawn comics. In 1989 she co-edited "Drawing
Away: an Australian women's comic book."

Norie Neumark is a sound/radio and new media artist. Her radiophonic
works have been commissioned and broadcast by the Listening Room, ABC
Classic FM in Australia and New Radio and the Performing Arts' "New
American Radio" series in the US. Norie is Associate Professor in Media
Arts and Production at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has
given papers about sound and multimedia at numerous international
conferences, including Sound Culture 96, Uncommon Senses (2000),
Affective Encounters (2001) and at several ISEAs. Her published works
include essays in "Essays in Sound, Leonardo" and "Media Information
Australia" and in Brandon Labelle and Christof Migone (eds), "Writing
Aloud: The Sonics of Language." In 1999/2000 she was a Fellow at the
Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.

For more information about Turbulence Artists' Studios, please visit
http://turbulence.org/studios