Expanding the scope: Presence, Visibility and Interpretation

This chapter investigates how selected contemporary artists are making work using sound technologies in ways that challenge the insistently prevalent idea of what constitutes humanness. These works question the accompanying historic colonial, binary, and anthropocentric underpinnings that have fed into the idea of the human. They each focus, in different ways, on the concerns and subjectivities of beings that might be considered ‘outsiders’ or ‘other’ to this common conception of ‘human’ and extend to the more-than-human.