Category: committee

Report during the symposium: SONIC FABULATION: RETHINKING CYBERNETICS IN (NON) HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTIVITY Human-machine interactivity in sound and intermedia contexts such as installations and performance art has been examined in detail in recent decades through work on gesture control and audio-haptic feedback. While questions about the conditions of machine interaction and human perception seem to be a…

Report during the symposium: 2O21: FORWARD CAN NOT BE BACKWARD Two moons circle the earth. Their presence is noticed by some, but for most people they were not there… Intercepting Orwell’s 1984 and Murakami’s 1Q84, we arrive at 2 o 21. This is the starting point to think the possibilities of deviation in a post-pandemic and…

Report during the symposium: SYNTHETIC SOUND My presentation is about the possible sonifications of Earth’s data, from the stratosphere to Earth’s interior and the in-between layers and spaces. I am proposing a sound experience that sonifies the different forces of nature, hereby enabling unforeseen and unusual new connections that we can observe in the wake of…

Report during the symposium: RE-MONSTERING NATURE: TERATOLOGY AS ECO-PROPHETICS Teratological literature has long reenforced the business of othering by privileging certain classifications, populations and subjectivities, while relegating others to the status of ‘monstrous’. Monstrous traits are to be feared, avoided, exploited or destroyed, and their designations tend to radiate away from anthropocentrism. In the 21st century,…

Report during the symposium: PROLOGUE FOR CHANGE THROUGH IMPROV ACTING AND LARPING Anthropocentrism and technological progression are the cornerstones of my current art research. In August 2021, I hosted a workshop where the partcipants reflected upon and challenged these two fundamentals. The workshop was a hybrid of Live Action Role Play (LARP) and improvised theatre, set…

Report during the symposium: FILMING-WITH CLARICE LISPECTOR Is it possible to film as if caressing? How would it be ‘to film with the body’? How would it be to film the life-world as Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector writes? These were the initial questions of my artistic research that brings into the visual arts some characteristics of…

Report during the symposium: Fatberg – A New Hybrid Intelligence  Taking Fatberg as a metaphor for a new artificially created intelligence, the work presents an online game of chance in which the only winner is Fatberg itself. By clicking on the “water flush” button, Fatberg feeds on our digital database: by combining wastewater quality data with…

Report during the symposium: HEAD IN THE CLOUD: USING SPECULATIVE FABULATION TO (RE)IMAGINE THE MATERIALITY OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY  The talk Head in the Cloudexamines speculative fabulation as a method for challenging the prevalent narrative of immateriality surrounding digital technology. Contrary to the rhetoric of the so-called digital revolution, modern technology is still heavily reliant on industrial-age…

Report during the symposium: CIRCLE AS A METHODOLOGY / AN ETHICAL QUEST In her doctoral artistic project Circus as a Practice of Hope, Marie-Andrée Robitaille proposes ‘Circle as a methodology’ as an effort to counter a linear world vision. Can engaging worlds through circularity, literally andmetaphorically, revive a system of values based on a plurality of…

Report during the symposium: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER The audio-visual project Let’s Talk about the Weather delves into realms of ecosphere, biosphere and technosphere expressed through the format of weather forecasting, wind scale and a map of emotions. The viewer is plunged into a speculative world through visual and subjective presentations of the Beaufort…