TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
Zach Poff
Daybreak at Wave Farm . Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter. (May 02, 2015)
Sound Art Revisited Event Poster. Courtesy Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY. (Sep 23, 2019)
Zach Poff's "Pond Station". Photographed by Will Hunt. (Jun 01, 2019)
Jen Kutler and Zach Poff on the Saturday Afternoon Show.. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter. (May 20, 2017)
Pond Station Image. Created by Zach Poff. (Jul 01, 2015)
The Sun Dialogs Image. Image courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams. (Jun 02, 2015)
Zach Poff Portrait Image. (Jun 02, 2015)
Zach Poff at Wave Farm during Reveil. Photographed by Galen Joseph-Hunter. (May 02, 2015)
Zach Poff and N.B. Aldrich Portrait Image. (Jun 09, 2013)
Radio Silence (1.tall front). Zach Poff (Jul 02, 2010)
Radio Silence (2.speaker detail, front). Zach Poff (Jul 02, 2010)
Radio Silence (3.speaker detail, back). Zach Poff (Jul 02, 2010)
Radio Silence (4.screenshot). Zach Poff (Jul 02, 2010)
Enchanted. Zach Poff
Parallel Rhetoric: Coming and Going. Zach Poff, 2008
Zach Poff is a New York area media artist, educator, and maker-of-things. His artwork is rooted in open systems that eschew individual authorship in favor of collaborative or generative models. His recent work employs unique sound tools to explore social and ecological relationships (Pond Station, Sferics). His algorithmic remixes of popular media uncover hidden subtexts lurking inside familiar forms (Radio Silence, Video Silence). He considers his art-making, teaching, and software development to be contributions toward a culture of sharing & empathy, in direct opposition to commercial media’s cult of the individual.
In 2015 he received a commission from Wave Farm, to create Pond Station, a long-term outdoor sculpture that live-streams the underwater sounds of a pond to explore aural connections to the more-than-human.
He currently teaches Sound Art at Cooper Union School of Art in NYC and leads workshops on “expanded” sound recording at UnionDocs, colleges, and arts organizations. He taught previously at Bennington College and Cooper Union Continuing Education.
He has received awards from NYC Artist Corps, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Wave Farm. His work has been broadcast in the U.S. and internationally on WGXC FM, Radiophrenia (Scotland), Resonance FM (London), Kunstradio (Austria), ABC Radio (Australia) and at venues including Manifesta, Documenta, the Portland Biennial, ISEA 2008 (Singapore), Artists Space, Hallwalls Art Center, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, and Polli Talu Art Center Estonia).