A Moment@Zero Degrees

Steve Bradley's art practice involves sound performance, time-based media and material culture. He explores the boundaries of urban and suburban culture by collecting debris, sound and images from the consumed and littered landscape. In June 2001, he was awarded a rivercommission at Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, England where he will be an artist-in-residence for two months in spring 2002. His project, Reading the River, will focus on the environmental aspects of the River Hull Corridor. Since 1998 he has curated art@radio, a net.radio broadcast of sound art and experimental music. In June 2001, he spent two weeks participating in an artist residency, Communication Front in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where he explored the city with a digital camera documenting street and material culture. Summer 2000, Bradley directed and organized Polar Circuit III, a 6-week international media arts residency for over 50 artists located at the University of Lapland, Rovanimei, Finland. Bradley has performed live at Transmission 003.3 sound art festival in Chicago, Sonic Circuits VII, International Festival Electronic Music and Art in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Red Room, Baltimore, Maryland. Bradley received his B.F.A. from the University of South Florida in drawing and painting and a Masters of Fine Arts from Florida State University in painting and electronic media. He is an Associate Professor, Visual Arts at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He teaches courses in foundations, digital cinema, video art and sound.

Cfr. nn. Arch. 183.7, 184.8 ZERO is a limited edition collection of one-minute soundworks by international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Contributors were invited to create an original recording of one-minute duration for the CD on the theme of ZERO – whether through their stripped-down, low-tech aesthetic or a focus on themes of absence, abstraction, distortion or a sense of thereshold between one state and another. The CD contains a broad variety of one-minute soundworks and presents the results of artists working thematically in chance juxtaposition. By bringing together this calibre and range of contributions, ZETRO aims to stimulate further interest in the artist work and practice, debate and dialogue surrounding sound art. The artists on ZERO range from well known world figures, to individuals and groups making their first wirks in this field. ZERO was commisioned by the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) and was published with the support from Liverpool Art School.