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Matt Mikas

Matt Mikas is a sound artist with a history of involvement with microradio, nightclub entertainment, and museum exhibition. A sonic anthropologist, Mikas uses turntables alternately as a historian and performer. In January 2000, he curated the sound program for Dave Hickey's Ultralounge at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa and Tune(In))) (2003), a one-night installation featuring over sixty sound artists performing live into six radio transmitters.

Of The Bridge, a collaboration with Matt Bua and Tom Roe, premiered in Brooklyn! (2001) at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Mikas's current project Interactive Audio Response Kit is a musical composition and listening tool created for two identical LPs. He has spoken on independent media actions at the Grass Roots Radio Conference, the New York Poetry Project, among others.

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Matt Mikas is a sound artist and sonic anthropologist working in microradio, nightclubs and museums; he uses turntables as historian and performer. He curated the sound program for Dave Hickey's Ultralounge at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (January 2000), produced Tune(In))) (2003), an installation of over sixty sound artists into six transmitters, and premiered Of The Bridge with Matt Bua and Tom Roe in Brooklyn! (2001) at Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. His Interactive Audio Response Kit is a composition and listening tool on two LPs.

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