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AO ROBERTS
OFFERINGS
AO is available for sound composition, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and artist talks.
Their work is shared within a framework of
ACCESS INTIMACY
and typically requires an
ACCESS RIDER.
All inquiries can be directed via the form below.
PUBLISHING
— Forthcoming: “Echo and the Chorus of Female Machines”, in The Power of Listening, ed. Jennifer Stoever, NYU Press, 2025.
— "Afterlife: ESO MALFLOR in Conversation with AO Roberts", PublicParking.com, May 2025.
— "Sanctuaries, Soup, Snakes and Soil: A Correspondence Between AO Roberts and Zoe Cinel", BackFlash Magazine, Summer Edition, 2025.
— Plants Properties Equipment (Rituals), Digital Projects Commission, BackFlash Magazine, EQ Bank, Spring 2025.
— Plants Properties Equipment, soundtrack, Field Hospital Records, 2024.
— Ruminant, VOR, Makade Star, 2022.
— "Prägnanz by Jaymez at aceartinc.", PaperWait, Vol. 18, 2017.
— "Say It Ain’t So", Art and Wonder: Sound and the Voice, Issue #4, 2017.
— "Echo and the Chorus of Female Machines", Sounding Out!, March 2, 2015.
— "For Gee Vaucher", Number Two, ed. D-L Alvarez, 2013.
— Salt Cellar, As We Try and Sleep Press / Intercopy, 2012.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Accessibility in sound arts and experimental music
Language, the voice, poetry, text-based art, alt-text
Speculative media studies and emerging technologies
Scoring for film, video games, and new media projects
Collaboration in sound composition and performance
WORKSHOPS
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Cold Read: Divination, Sound, and Poetry
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Sound for Performance and Installation
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Audio Description and Alt Text
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Crip Futurism
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Collaborative Sound Composition
SELECTED
AWARDS
2022 MacDowell Fellowshhip
2022 Canada Council Explore and Create
2022 WAC Individual Artist Grant
2022 Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant
2021 Sobey Art Award Longlist
2020 Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant
2019 WAC RBC On the Rise Nominee
2018 Canada Council Explore and Create
2017 WAC RBC On the Rise Nominee
2017 Canada Council Explore and Create
2017 Manitoba Arts Council Media Arts Grant
SELECTED CURATION
Plants Properties Equipment
OST Field Hospital Records
Guest Curator
Send + Receive Festival of Sound Art
Guest Curator,
Cluster New Media + Integrated Arts Festival
Exhibition Coordinator
Art From the HeartAccessible Art Fair.
Elsewhere: Evan Sabourin
La Maison des Artistes. curated w/Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
DAH-DIT-DAH
Quarterly experimental sound series,
NGTVSPC
CONTACT
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