Luc Messinezis is a sound artist originally born in Athens, Greece in 1977. Despite his scientific background, after relocating in the UK, he achieved an MA in Sound arts and ever since he engaged in depth with sound and its potential for artistic expression in a professional way. Luc’s interest mainly focuses in concrete sound and phonographic work. Phonography, concrete/acousmatic/electroacoustic composition, audiovisual works and sound installations are just a few of the media that Luc uses in order to realize his ideas which engage subjects such as perception, illusion, memory, space, communication and others.
May/June 2010 – AIR Krems , Artist in residence (Krems, Austria)
Awarded with the opportunity to develop new work as an artist in residence for two months in Krems, Austria. Works developed included the Sound installation/performance piece Sonic Garbage and the SoundMark Series.
April 2010 – Levendel Bloch Gallery , Sound Artist (Ein Hod, Israel)
Design and realization of the sound art installation Forest in a Forest in collaboration with photographer Naama Kostiner. The work was an audiovisual appreciation of the forests around the Carmel mountains. Visual and audio elements were removed from their original context and were used as materials for creative practice within the context of a gallery.
September 2008 – SoundPool , Sound Artist (International)
Stereo adaptation of the artwork ‘Wunderkammer: The sound cabinet of curiosities’. The work is exhibited online at SoundPool VI, which was curated by W.A. de Colone.
March 2008 – London College of Communication, Guest Lecturer (London,UK)
Invited to hold a lecture at LCC (University of the Arts London) as part of the MA in sound arts. The lecture referred to sound objects and their use within the contemporary arts and composition.
November 2007 – IMT Gallery/Electra Productions, Sound Artist (London, UK)
Designed and realized the multichannel sound art project ‘Wunderkammer; the cound cabinet of curiosities’, proposing a new compositional strategy. The work was on exhibition at IMT Gallery, London as part of the exhibition ‘Audio Forensics’.
