Anke Eckardt’s work encompasses mutimedia / sound art installations, artistic concepts, research and teaching.

She received her Master of Arts at the University of the Arts, Berlin in 2010. She studied with Sam Auinger, who was also a visiting practitioner last year.

Anke presents her artistic work internationally in exhibitions.

I took a deeper dive into her artwork via her blog. Here are my two favorite pieces.

The way she thinks about “sonic spaces” and the relationship between architecture and sound reminded me of Sam Auinger’s talk, and how we should create infrastructure with sound in mind. It is really important yet overlooked how important it is for a space to be sonically pleasing. It is not only the visual aesthetic that is important.

With my father being an architect, I felt myself thinking about sound and architecture quite a bit. I researched further into ways in which cities will use buildings or parks and trees to block out unpleasing sounds from a highway or railway, for example.