Dogs in the Yard, Birds Overhead


Stephen Vitiello’s sound installations, sculptural works, DVDs and photographs have been exhibited widely at such spaces as The Project and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City; The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; Galerie Almine Rech in Paris; and Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York.

Artist Bio

Dogs in the Yard, Birds Overhead is both a series of sculptural sound installations and a stereo CD. Vitiello captures field recordings from several sites in Virginia as a way to investigate the way divergent soundscapes, such as a countryside and a city, can affect each other and change the listener’s experience of each. Using his home as an example of such an intersection, Vitiello records the sounds of wildlife, NASCAR races, the James River and gunfire, focusing them into two six-channel environments designed for a specific gallery.


Award Year
2006
Status

Completed

Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello

Richmond, VA

Stephen Vitiello’s sound installations, sculptural works, DVDs and photographs have been exhibited widely at such spaces as The Project and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City; The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; Galerie Almine Rech in Paris; and Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York. Vitiello has performed at The Tate Modern in London, England; The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival; and per/Son in Cologne, Germany. He has directed the videos Nam June Paik: SeOUL NyMAx Performance and Light Readings, among others, and produced an audio CD Nam June Paik, Works 1958-1979 on Sub Rosa Records. Vitiello is on the faculty of kinetic imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.