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The Fresno Metropolitan Museum has developed Off-Site, a series of contemporary art projects, which will be installed in different locations throughout Fresno, while the Museum's main exhibition space is undergoing renovation. Off-Site takes contemporary art outside the gallery space, and encourages a dialogue between artists, audiences and neighborhood locations.

Off-Site: Ed Osborn
March 23 - April 14, 2006

For the second Off-Site project, sound artist Ed Osborn will compose four site-specific sound compositions, which will be broadcast through the loudspeakers at the Fulton Mall walkway in downtown Fresno. The compositions are based on the physical space of the walkway itself using, for example, the location and shape of fountains and planters, sculptures, loudspeakers, and the curving patterns embedded in the pavement as a framework for the pieces' compositional structure.

The sound pieces will evolve over a four-week period, with each broadcast occurring at the same time each week on Thursdays at 12.15 (with a replay on Fridays at 12.15). Listeners are encouraged to return to the walkway weekly to experience the changing compositions as part of the walkways spatial environment.

After each concert, a file of the piece will be posted on the Met's website, so listeners can hear it again or encounter it for the first time if they missed the concert. In addition, Osborn will invite four local and international sound artists to make their own remixes based on his work; the results will also be showcased on the Met's website.

Ed Osborn has exhibited and performed internationally, most recently at the Klanggalerie, Berlin, Germany; Interaccess, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA. His sounding artworks take the form of installations, sculptures, radio broadcastings, videos, performances, and public projects. Osborn received his MFA from Mills College, Oakland, and is presently Assistant Professor of Media Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Opening Event: Join artist Ed Osborn for lunch on Thursday, March 23 at noon to listen to the first concert broadcast on the Fulton Mall.

Location: Fulton Mall, Fulton Mall, Fresno
Starts: 2006 Mar 23 - 12:00pm
Ends: 2006 Apr 14 - 12:00pm
Website: http://fresnomet.org