Sound Art

Video tour of the Marine Institute’s RV Celtic Explorer

Aerial/Sparks and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture (IE)

A ship tour for curious listeners.

Electrified Feedback Cello

Michael Hutsteiner (AT), Verena Breitfuß (AT)

Ein Cello wird mittels magnetischen Abnehmers und Körperschallwandler durch Rückkopplung in Schwingung versetzt. Mittels digitaler Klangprozessoren kann das rückgekoppelte Signal manipuliert und verändert werden.

“Non-Player Piano” sound performance

HSE Art And Design School: Sound Art and Sound Design Department

Non-Player Piano was created specifically for Ars Electronica Festival 2020. It will be performed on Moscow River in collaboration with Mubert AI App. The performance will include live music improvisations aided by an artificial neural network “trained” to analyze the surrounding environment, such as the weather, time of day, location, speed, and type of movement.

Datasets vs Mindsets

Dmitry Bulatov, Lev Manovich, Alla Mitrofanova, Helena Nikonole, Daria Parkhomenko, Yanina Prudenko, Olga Vad

Public talks by the leading Russian-speaking thinkers and philosophers of new media.

Datasets vs Mindsets: Performance Program

Katarina Melik-Ovsepian + Nikita Prudnikov (aka monekeer) (RU), Maria Molokova (RU), Kira Weinshtein (RU), Nikolay Golikov, Yulia Glukhove (holoherz), EOLA

The project includes a one-day performance program using innovative forms of representation and interaction between online and offline formats, such as new approaches to webcasting and experimental web-interfaces, which create brand-new user experiences for online visitors.

Emergence & Convergence: Interviews

Katherine Melançon, George Fok, Daniel Corbeil, Sabrina Ratté

In these interviews, Katherine Melançon, George Fok, Daniel Corbeil and Sabrina Ratté explain the scope of their works, the subtle links they made between technology and ecology, and their vision of the future as seen through this lens.

[Dis]possess

Jason Zhao, et al.

[Dis]possess highlights the contradictory forces of capital and progressive politics within the artworld, simulating a coworking space in downtown Chicago that sells twenty-first century indulgences for the price of a cup of coffee.

[Dis]location

Brett Balogh; William Harper; James Hartunian; Kristin McWharter; Patrick O’Shea; Jung Ho Park; Zhong Ren

[Dis]location investigates and extends specific sites in Chicago and beyond to foreground our shared connections to public spaces in both the built and natural environments.

Emergence & Convergence: Art as prophetic and responsive

Katherine Melançon, George Fok, Moritz Wehrmann, Cheryl Sim

In this live conversation, Cheryl Sim, managing director and curator at the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, and artists from the exhibition Emergence & Convergence will discuss their work, which meets at the intersection of the self, digital technology, the built environment and the natural world.

[Dis]place

Lola Blake; Jiwon Ham; Addison Tyler Leon; Ethan Proia; Meimei Song; Yimin Zheng

[Dis]place questions the reciprocal relationship between the self and its surroundings in an attempt to expand fixed notions of subject, host, and home.

[Dis]content

Gloria Fan Duan; Blake Fall-Conroy; Anaïs Morales; Judd Morrissey, Mark Jeffrey, & Abraham Avnisan; Alan Perry; Chengan Xia; Kio Zhu

[Dis]content probes cultural objects and historical sites to examine the role of art and artifact in the construction of collective memory.

[Dis]connect

Lee Blalock; Ashara Renfroe; Anna Christine Sands; Julia Tsai; Anne Wilson & Shawn Decker

[Dis]connect interrogates the struggle for connection despite the ubiquity of instant communication, underscoring the role these technologies play in redefining our relationships to others and to ourselves.

[Dis]orient

Eduardo Kac; Jakyung Lee; Bun Stout; Tongqi Wang; Ling Zeng

[Dis]orient explores real and imaginary spaces of isolation and introspection through experimental poetry and performance.

Sound works

Ailís Ní Ríain (IE), Carol Anne Connolly (IE), David Stalling (IE), Kennedy Browne (IE), Kevin Barry (IE), Magz Hall (UK), Robertina Šebjanič (SI)

Presentation of sound works by participating artists.

I sit and worry about her

Jasna Jovicevic (RS)

I sit and worry about her is a musical improvisation experiment exploring the endless worry of mothers for their daughters through the mapping and sonification of brain waves.

Remote sensing: research and collaboration

David Stalling (DE/IE), Prof Sergei Lebedev (RU/IE)

Sound artist David Stalling and Prof. Sergei Lebedev discuss David’s work and his time on board the RV Celtic Explorer during the SEA-SEIS research survey in 2018. Led by Prof. Lebedev, DIAS scientists have been collecting first of a kind seismic data across a vast area of the North Atlantic. Since 2018, David has worked closely with Sergei and his team on the development of his sonic composition which translates sampled data from deep sea monitors deployed on the research survey.

Remote sensing: mythologies and sciences

DR Chris McGonigle (IE) Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Louise Manifold (IE)

Dr. Chris McGonigle, artist Robertina Šebjanič and artist / curator Louise Manifold discuss the importance of the age-old relationship between people and the sea, and how sonic folklore plays a fundamental role in shaping our connection to ocean space.

Remote sensing: Deep Sea Observations and the limits of life

Professor Andrew Wheeler (IE), DR Aaron Lim (IE), Ailís Ní Ríain (IE/UK)

Professor Andrew Wheeler, Dr. Aaron Lim and composer Ailís Ní Ríain discuss their experiences of deep sea observation using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) to film deep sea habitats and its impact on both creative and science practices.

Artist talk – Kristina Tica

Kristina Tica (RS)

The winner of the Serbian national art+science AI Lab selection for 2020, Kristina Tica, talks about her project Digital Prayer. The project is using a computer vision method for image generation to create a visual output that represents Orthodox icons.

Emergence & Convergence: An Online Guided Tour

PHI (CA)

PHI is thrilled to present an online guided tour of Emergence & Convergence, the PHI Centre’s current exhibition in Montreal. Emergence & Convergence is an invitation to immerse ourselves completely in the works. This exhibition investigates our humanity in relationship with our planet and all living beings.