Professor Philip Samartzis
Leader of the Sound Art and Auditory Culture Lab in the School of Art
Leader of the Sound Art and Auditory Culture Lab in the School of Art
Centre for Art and Social Transformation (CAST)
Email: philip.samartzis@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 46751 7778
Campus: Melbourne City
BP201 – Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Centre for Art and Social Transformation (CAST)
Email: philip.samartzis@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 46751 7778
Campus: Melbourne City
BP201 – Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Philip Samartzis is sound artist, curator and researcher investigating the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities. The sound recordings he makes deploying advanced audio technologies are used within teaching, exhibition, broadcast and publication to demonstrate the transformative effects of climate change within a contemporary art context. In recognition of his research, Philip was selected by RMIT to represent the 1905 category of the 2018 ERA review for its impact and engagement. Philip was recently presented with the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Distinguished Research Award.
Philip leads two major projects in the School of Art focusing on building sound research through national and international transdisciplinary cooperation and evolving the School’s reconciliation action plan by working with remote indigenous communities in the Pilbara through collaborative sound art projects. He also co-leads the AEGIS Art and Ecologies Network which supports students and researchers investigating cultural responses to global climate change, the poetics of place, and relations between humans and animals.
Philip is a three-time recipient of the Australian Antarctic Territory Fellowship which he is using to document the effects of extreme climate and weather events. He is undertaking the most comprehensive sound study ever produced of the ice continent spanning 15 years. Philip has presented various iterations of his practice led research in France, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, NZ, UK and US. Philip’s book Antarctica, An Absent Presence (2016) is included in curricula focusing on soundscape studies and geohumanities offered by London College of Communication, Musashino Art University, Durham University, the University of Syracuse, and the Zurich University of the Arts. In recognition of the innovation of his research, Philip was selected by Australia Post to appear on the $2.20 postage stamp commemorating the Australian Antarctic Territory Arts Fellowship.
In 2019, Philip was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship to undertake research at the High Altitude Research Centre at Jungfraujoch. This is the first time either organisation has supported an artist – researcher within their respective programs evidencing a growing awareness of the capacity of art to advocate for rarefied and endangered ecologies. Philip’s high alpine research has been featured in DW Radio, Swiss Info and Les Temps news services and exhibited in China and Japan (2019) and Switzerland (2021). It also featured in an exhibition titled Sampling the Future (2021) that was held at the NGV Australia.
Philip's research investigates the social and environmental conditions informing remote wilderness regions and their communities. The sound recordings he makes using advanced audio technologies are used within teaching, exhibition, broadcast and publication to demonstrate the transformative effects of climate change within a fine art context. Philip is the recipient of three Australian Antarctic Territory Fellowships which he is using to map the soundscape of Eastern Antarctica. He is also the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship to record the impact of climate change on high altitude alpine ecologies. His research has been presented nationally and internationally including the National Gallery of Victoria; the Art Gallery of South Australia; the Intercommunication Centre in Tokyo; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Sound Art, Soundscape, Eco-Acoustics, Acoustic Ecology, Bioacoustics, Antarctica, Alpine Environments
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Sound in the construction of knowledge, practices and representations in the Alpine space
Editions Antipodes, Lausanne
Samartzis, Philip (2022).
The Polar Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2 Pages 336-350
Philpott, Carolyn., Samartzis, Philip (2017).
Thames and Hudson Australia
Samartzis, Philip (2016)
$12,500
Philip Samartzis and Roland Snooks
2021
$31,800
Philip Samartzis, Kristen Sharp and Andrew Tetzlaff
2021
Philip Samartzis
2021
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Award date: 2021
Recipients: Philip Samartzis
Award date: 2020
Recipients: Philip Samartzis
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Philip Samartzis
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.