Fence Archive Exchange Artist Presentations - Spencer Hutchinson

October 22, 2023
The ESS/FENCE Archive Exchange was a month-long collaboration in April 2023 between Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) in Chicago and FENCE Poetry Journal (FENCE) in New York to each commission one artist working in their primary discipline to create a new work, drawing inspiration from the other organization’s archives. The goal of the residency was to create space and support for artists to research, experiment, share knowledge and ideas, and to use digital archives as generative material for new work.
This event at ESS’s Audible Gallery shares the new works created by sonic artist Spencer Hutchinson and poet Alyssa Perry, excerpts from ESS’s Creative Audio Archives and FENCE’s digital archives, and informal artist presentations.
Materials from the residency will also be published in Issue 41 of FENCE Poetry Journal (to be released Fall 2023).
Spencer Hutchinson (Chicago, IL) is a Multi-Media Visual and Sound Artist. He is a 2009 BFA Graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied Painting, Sound and New Media, and a 2020 MFA Graduate from The University of Illinois at Chicago where he studied Studio Arts and received his degree in New Media Studies. Between earning his degrees he studied painting, electronic music production, 3D Animation and Virtual Reality at Indiana University, as well as Drawing/Art History, Theory and Criticism at The University of Chicago as a non-degree seeking student. Spencer Hutchinson has shown work nationally and internationally in Italy, Mexico, and the U.K. and has been a practicing Artist based in Chicago, Illinois since 2004.