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ADAM TINKLE Associate Professor and Director of MDOCS Office: Filene Hall, 2nd Floor Phone: 518.580.5271 Email:atinkle@skidmore.edu |
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Adam works across media art, performance, music, installation, auditory culture, and experimental nonfiction. After studies in music with avant-garde legends Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Davis, and Pauline Oliveros, his soundworks have taken disparate forms, from immersive multichannel installations to song cycles and touring band projects. His music has been commissioned by New Music USA, the Hammer Museum, and Machine Project, and his music-theatre-documentary A Mess of Things earned 鈥渂est of鈥� awards and rave reviews at Fringe festivals in Hollywood and San Diego, CA. With the collective Seven Count, his installations have explored sonic participation and historic musical instrument collections. His video practice, subject of a 2022 solo exhibition at the Arts Center of the Capital Region, engages with contemporary screenlit embodiment and (un)wellness, using antique video equipment to create glimmering, painterly abstractions and immersive spaces. In roles ranging from audio producer and sound designer to composer and curator, Adam has logged a wide range of collaborations, including a radio play co-created with Marina Abramovic and Kim Stanley Robinson, and How to Tell a True Immigrant Story, the first 360VR film ever to compete in the Locarno Film Festival. His collaborative explorations with children, strangers, and publics have been the subject of several publications, and served as grounding and inspiration for Adam鈥檚 work on the MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which links the college with regional community partners through collective artistic response to the challenges of our time. |