William Furlong belongs to the generation of British artists who developed a new concept of sculpture in the 1970's and 80's (Gilbert and George, Bruce McLean, Paul Richards etc.). Furlong's special contribution has been in the area of Sound and, with the founding of Audio Arts (together with Michael Archer) in 1973, he began a project of mapping the territory of contemporary art in a series of cassette editions. The Audio Arts project is not only a massive archive of interviews with artists but also contains documents of important exhibitions, symposia and festivals plus many original acoustic works by artists. William Furlong is professor at the Wimbelton School of Art in London.