Current Works

DELAY
Sonification and Speakers: Florian Grond
Dimensions Variable.
Central Element: 16’ (adjustable) x 2’ x 2’; 5 speakers: 1’x1’x3” each + spotlight
AC and DC motors, aluminum, oil on wood, microprocessors, circuitry, foam core, transducers
2014/2015 (remounting/circuitry redesigned to be floor mounted)

Exhibition Venues
Assemblage, Boston, MA, August – October, 2022, Mary Sherman: Visual Orchestrations
International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN)/Oboro, Montreal, Canada, April 2016
Galleri KiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Curator: Regina Moeller), 2014
APO-33, Nantes, France, 2018

Papers
Ripples: What Artists Bring to the Community, The Kansai International Symposium: Cultural Crossroads = A.I.R., Yonago Convention Center, Yonago, Japan, November 28, 2015.

Audifying Painting: Hybrid Curatorial Practices for Sound Art presented at the Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art Curating Conference; Goldsmiths, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art; May 15-17, 2014.

Sound, Images and Data: All Dressed up and Ready to Go (keynote presentation) at the Sound, Images and Data Conference, New York University, New York; July 23-25, 2015

Awards/Honors
Included in Creative Capital’s 2013, 2014 and 2015 On Our Radar, a searchable database featuring noteworthy Moving Image and Visual Arts projects.

Related Talks
Painting: In Praise of Frozen Sound, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Related Workshops
Delay, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, November 2014 http://www.kit.ntnu.no/en/content/delay-workshop-mary-sherman-and-florian-grond

Bibliography
Boston Globe, “Critics Tips,” February 23, 2020, by Cate McQuaid.

Art New England, “Mary Sherman: Visual Orchestrations,” September/October 2022, by B. Amore, p 84.

Apple Books, Letter to Lucy, A Manifesto of Creative Redemption–In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, p. 284, 2017, by Frank Schaffer.
ETC MEDIA108, Dans les internets/Inside the Internet, “Delay (2012) de Mary Sherman You l’audification du regard,”p. 9, June-September 2016, by Abenavoli, Lorella.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac/MIT Press, Mary Sherman: What if You Could Hear a Painting, November 2016, by Lanfranco Aceti.

Zeitschrift für Neue Musik, “Forschen mit den Ohren,” p. 65-66, November 2015, by Anna Beerlink.

Acknowledgments: Brett Bouma and Martin Villiger at The Wellman Center for Photomedicine (Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School) for the Fourier-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Scanning; Kathy Patterson and George Bossarte for technical/systems controls assistance and special thanks to L. Alexis Emelianoff, Marc Fournel, Matthias Kronlachner, Regina Moeller (KiT Gallery Curator), Peter Plessas, Rudi Punzo (website documentation), William Stephens (access to Nexus Machine Shop) and Siyi Wang (video documentation and graphic design).
The first exhibition in Trondheim, Norway was kindly supported with a travel grant by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ).