JOSHUA DUMAS

Joshua Dumas is a composer, new media and sound artist in New York. He scores dance, theatre, and film, composes original music, makes glitch art and digital video, and creates installation and sound art.

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Best Practices

image by: Rebecca Fitton
Glitch editing for dancefilm

A ten minute dance film by Rebecca Fitton. A satirical take on the presence of democracy’s performance in her work as a “dance maker.” Dance, diagram, audio description and sound layer in a machine-processed edit. Video/sound glitch code by Joshua Dumas.

Collaborators: Rebecca Fitton

Links: Rebecca Fitton projects, Etudes

Location: Online, Austin TX, Brooklyn NY

When: Dec 2022

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filed under Sound, Video, Other

36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea

image by: Sarah Cameron Sunde
Music for performance

In 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013-2022), Sarah Cameron Sunde stands in a tidal bay for a full tidal cycle as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. The 12 hour video documentation is scored by Joshua Dumas.

Collaborators: Sarah Cameron Sunde

Links: 36pt5.org

Sample: Audio

Location: the Sea, Global

When: Sep 2022

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filed under Sound, Video, Performance, Other

Refraction Series

image by: Joshua Dumas
Glitch Art

An NFT gallery of glitch work exploring place through databending, data moshing, pixel sorting and artificial refraction.

Links: View on Foundation.app

Sample: Still

Location: Online, Brooklyn NY

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filed under Video, Other

Night Songs for the Birds of North America

image by: Joshua Dumas
Music album, installation

A four-channel audio composition, by Joshua Dumas, exploring translation, memory, and avian mass extinction in the Anthropocene, installed in the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room, curated by Experimental Sound Studio.

Collaborators: Whitney Johnson, Josh Bell, Alex Inglizian

Links: Bandcamp, ESS

Sample: Audio

Location: Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago IL

When: Jan 2017

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filed under Sound, Performance, Other

Chicago Avenue Moon

image by: Mike Piontek
Music app

Chicago Avenue Moon is a responsive, generative music app that uses a set of variables including date, time, phase of the moon, and GPS location, to determine how its music unfolds, in real-time.

Collaborators: Mike Piontek, Whitney Johnson, Josh Bell

Links: Chicago Avenue Moon

Location: Pieholden Suite Sound, Chicago IL

When: Feb 2014

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filed under Sound, Video, Other

the Floodplain

image by: Kaitlyn Busbee
Installation

A multichannel sound-and-video installation that explores the history of flooding in Iowa City.

Links: Project info

Location: Public Space One, Iowa City IA

When: Oct 2012

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filed under Sound, Video, Text, Other

Reading White Pines

image by: Carl Sweets

A multi-artist installation created and curated by Katie Hargrave in the Porch Gallery at the University of Iowa. Joshua Dumas and Carl Sweets collaborated to create this photographic triptych for the show.

Collaborators: Katie Hargrave

Location: Porch Gallery, Iowa City, IA

When: Feb 2012 to Mar 2012

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filed under Other

The City in Which

image by: Marianna Milhorat
Film and poetry performance

The City in Which is an expanded cinema project based on Chicago poet Li-Young Lee’s “The City In Which I Love You”.

Collaborators: Christy LeMaster, Li-Young Lee, Melika Bass, Jeremy Bessoff, Thomas Comerford, Carolyn Faber, Lori Felker, Scott K. Foley, Jason Halprin, Emily Irvine, Marianna Milhorat, Kate Raney, Jerzy Rose, Danièle Wilmouth

Links: The City in Which

Location: Nightingale, Chicago IL

When: Apr 2011

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Arc Lit

image by: Joshua Dumas
photobook

Handmade book of portraits: photographs of projections on people, by Joshua Dumas

Collaborators: Kirk Bravender

Links: View images from the book

Location: Nightingale, Chicago, IL

When: Mar 2011

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filed under Other
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