Professor Philip Samartzis
Leader of the Sound Art and Auditory Culture Lab in the School of Art
Leader of the Sound Art and Auditory Culture Lab in the School of Art
Centre for Art and Social Transformation (CAST)
Email: philip.samartzis@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 46751 7778
Campus: Melbourne City
BP201 – Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Centre for Art and Social Transformation (CAST)
Email: philip.samartzis@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 46751 7778
Campus: Melbourne City
BP201 – Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Professor Philip Samartzis is a Melbourne based sound artist, scholar, and curator with a specific interest in the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities. His art practice is based on deep fieldwork where he deploys complex sound recording technology to capture natural, anthropogenic, and geophysical forces. The recordings are used within various exhibition and performance outcomes to demonstrate the transformative effects of sound within a contemporary art context. He is particularly interested in concepts of perception, immersion, and embodiment to provide audiences with sophisticated encounters of space and place.
Philip is the recipient of three Australian Antarctic Territory Fellowships which he is using to construct a sound map of Eastern Antarctica. His project Polar Force produced in collaboration with Speak Percussion received a Honorary Mention for the Digital Musics and Sound Art Category at the 2019 Prix Ars Electronica. In 2021 Philip was selected by Australia Post to appear on the $2.20 stamp to commemorate the Australian Antarctic Arts program.
In 2019 Philip received a project grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to undertake fieldwork at the High Altitude Research Station at Jungfraujoch in the Bernese Alps. Artworks to emerge from this unique opportunity include Atmospheres and Disturbances presented by the Australian Network for Art and Technology at SPECTRA 2022; Eco Acoustics: Listening to a changing environment (2021) presented by the Verbier 3-D Foundation; and Unclear Cloud (with Roland Snooks) presented by the National Gallery of Victoria in Sampling the Future (2021). In 2021, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott on behalf of the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) selected Atmospheres and Disturbances as one of the winners of the video and music category of the inaugural GEO Art Prize.
Philip, in collaboration with Roland Snooks and Laura Harper were recently commissioned by Curiocity Brisbane to produce a new artwork titled Tectonic Resonance for the 2024 World Science Festival. Tectonic Resonance is a physical installation with integrated sound which explores the resonances between processes of geological formation and new modes of additive manufacturing (3D printing). The aim of this installation is to engage the visitor in a tactile and immersive sound experience which evokes geological form, deep time, extractive process, and new modes of technology.
The research of Professor Philip Samartzis encompasses the Australian Antarctic Territory, the Swiss and Australian Alps, and the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. A three-time recipient of the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, Philip’s research has earned him an Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Distinguished Research Award and recognition by Australia Post who featured him on $2.20 stamp commemorating artists in Antarctica. His high-altitude alpine research, funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, has been showcased in international exhibitions and media including the New York Times. Recently, he received a Creative Australia International Engagement grant to lead a collaborative research project documenting the subterranean sonics of the Valais Canton in Switzerland. Philip is currently CI on the ARC DP Creative Antarctica, Artists and Writers in the Far South, and leader of the Sound Art and Auditory Culture Lab in the School of Art.
Sound Art, Soundscape, Eco-Acoustics, Acoustic Ecology, Bioacoustics, Antarctica, Alpine Environments
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Sound in the construction of knowledge, practices and representations in the Alpine space
Editions Antipodes, Lausanne
Samartzis, Philip (2022).
The Polar Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2 Pages 336-350
Philpott, Carolyn., Samartzis, Philip (2017).
Thames and Hudson Australia
Samartzis, Philip (2016)
$12,500
Philip Samartzis and Roland Snooks
2021
$31,800
Philip Samartzis, Kristen Sharp and Andrew Tetzlaff
2021
Philip Samartzis
2021
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Award date: 2021
Recipients: Philip Samartzis
Award date: 2020
Recipients: Philip Samartzis
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Philip Samartzis
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.