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St Celfer

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Sound and Video

“There is a lot of noise today—we just need to hear the music within it.”

Post-apocalyptic is constructive: St Celfer resists technology’s facilitation of power by navigating glitch-tronic failure and counterblasts through the vanishing point. Sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed and overloaded signals, opening new ways of perceiving a world constrained by the impositions of power. St Celfer devises instruments that focus on the interface between human and machine, mounted on a single microphone stand with interconnected gear designed to make music in the moment.

By enunciating the temporal, mechanical, and human elements of these audial conjunctions, the artist probes how these forces actively shape, and are shaped by, the fabrications of power. In the midst of this deliberate complexity, we are reminded: amidst the noise, the music is already there, waiting to be heard.

Live performance Friday, September 12.

Artist statement
St Celfer (john macdougall parker), of American and Korean origin, is a former Olympic athlete and coach, and now a creator of interactive sound devices. St Celfer floats between New York City, Seattle, and São Paulo, where you can find drawings on the 'Space Between Points' in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACUSP). 4 albums over 4 years are named "New & Notable" by the editors at Bandcamp.com including one featured wave track for Infrasonica.org, ‘Voicing Abstraction.’ His music has been broadcast on Ridgewood Radio (WFMU), Radio Eclectus (KHUH) and Flotation Device (KBCS). Recent interviews include TomMoody.us, Invert/Extant (UK), and the School of Commons (Zurich). Part of the '00's Williamsburg, Brooklyn music scene, John is currently in the band, Nancy, with David Weinstein and Tim Spelios.

Social Media
instagram - @StCelfer
x- @StCelfer
youtube - @StCelfer
tiktok - @StCelfer
bandcamp - StCelfer.bandcamp.com

About Spam New Media Festival

Initiated within the University of Washington’s DXARTS department, SPAM is a Seattle based experimental arts festival which brings together practitioners working on the fringes and frontiers of new media art and knowledge production. Taking place at various venues across Seattle, the yearly festival consists of a program of exhibitions, performances, workshops and discussions rooted in, or emerging from, technology driven art and digital culture. This includes, but is not limited to, the projects of artists and researchers working within the fields of AI, robotics, sound, experimental video, VR, wearable technology, photogrammetry and radio.

We want to be a bug in the system, resisting the dominance of capital driven media culture through multiplicity and difference, through embodiment and critical practice. SPAM is also about regrowth in the wake of ruin, reconstitution and persistence through hard times. We are interested in ideas of collectivity, possibility, commonality and queerness. As a collaboration of artists looking to address these ways of being, we hope to leave breadcrumbs, to create pathways of interconnectivity, and make traces for our future selves.