Sound installation and microscope with tardigrades (2017)
The tardigrade or water bear, a microorganism, survives environmental conditions that hardly any other living creature can withstand. While researchers are working on deciphering the secrets of the tardigrade’s survival, the media are throwing themselves at the cute bear and marketing it in all conceivable variations. In the end, the work poses the question of what sound these tiny creatures make. This is reason enough for the world’s first tardigrade nano-ear experiment: a musical radio feature/4channel audio installation between science and absurdity.
Project Credits:
- Prof. Dr. Hartmut Greven, apl. Prof. Dr. Ralph O. Schill, Martin Mach, Carla Pernpeintner, Frank Petschull, Sibylle Schmiech, et al, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Chair for Experimental Radio at Bauhaus University, Weimar.
Biography:
Maria Antonia Schmidt (DE) completed her master’s degree in 2016 at the Department of Experimental Radio at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. From 2006 on, she toured for 10 years as a singer with her band Chapeau Claque throughout Germany and has since released four albums. Her audio plays received several awards. Including the first prize and second prize of the Hoer.Spiel 2010/11, the Szlâbbész 2014, and a nomination for the Prix Pierre Schaeffer. In 2017 she was awarded the Media Art Award from the Bauhaus University, Weimar for her master’s thesis. Among other things, she produces cultural reports for Deutschlandfunk and currently works as a freelance media artist in Weimar.
