For just 9 euros, you can gain access to this online festival that includes hundreds of lectures, presentations, concerts, performances, interactive workshops and virtual tours.
Sept. 10th - 9:00am PST / 18:00 CET The Sound of Clouds and Other Sonic Memories
Joel Ong
Since 2015, Joel Ong has been collecting sonic memories through interviews and casual conversations. As part of his Residency with UCLA this summer, Ong turned his attention to sonic memories in the environment, and is collecting these in order to draw attention to fluctuations in the climate observed and remembered through the inter-subjectivities of a diverse group of interviewees. The archive of memories is then audiated/imagined as a musical composition through binaural recordings and electroacoustic processing of field sounds. Where appropriate, each interviewee also provides an image of his/her ears that are then sculpted as closely as possible in clay and included in a binaural recording system. Through this, his project asks – how do we hear through someone else’s ears the same way we may imagine ourselves in someone else’s shoes? Might we develop a deeper responsibility to the environment through the conservation of sounds that may be lost, or never again heard because of noisy anthropogenic changes to our soundscapes? How might we attend to the affect within each instance of listening, and create transformative politics of listening?
MycoMythologies: Storytelling Circle is an on/off_line performative workshop that evokes and employs the mycelial mind of the attendants through nodes of knowledge gathering practices and embodied mycology. Participants create their own mycomythological, speculative stories to share with one another and donate to the Spawn database. Participants will learn about World Networks Entanglement also known as planetary infrastructures through the various portions of the performative workshop: How to be a Mushroom Hunter soundwalk, Spores and Networks guided meditation, Mycelial Storytelling Objects, Carrier Bag Weaving tutorial and Mycelial Map-Making. Each portion of the workshop is a node in the mycelial web: networking, expedition, gathering story spores, making maps, storytelling and spawn.
DAY 5! SEPTEMBER 12th
Sept. 12th - 9:00am PST / 18:00 CET Vibrations Matter: Art & Science of Deep Listening
TUNE IN TO THIS OPEN MIC IMPROVISATIONAL BREATHING AND VIBRATING -SESSION - JOIN THE SCIENTISTS AND ARTISTS WHO WORK WITH FREQUENCIES AND VIBRATIONS!
Victoria Vesna, James Gimzewski, Carlo Ventura, Charles Taylor, and members of the Art Sci Now collective members -- Ivana Dama, Clinton Van Arnam, John Brumley and SPECIAL GUESTS!!!
This event addresses vibrations from the point of view of visual and sound artists considering the scientific research into matter, brain waves, human and animal voice, environmental noise and outer space. Our starting point is quantum mechanics — based on music theory and that nanotechnology is showing us the waves that underlie all matter which many Eastern philosophies have known for centuries. We will listen and discuss projects that utilize vibrations, noise, and audible and inaudible realms and get in touch with our own soundscape that includes our body, mind, voice and environment vibrations.
Breathing will be central to every session and we will engage in shared deep listening with binaural / immersive sound. Participants are invited to share their sounds live or recordings.
OUR COLLECTIVE MEMBERS PARTICIPATING IN PERSON @ ARS ELECTRONICA 2021 in LINZ!
Ivy Lovett
Art|Sci Collective member is a part of Festival University: “Transform your World” by Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University. This inaugural program is taking place in a hybrid form, with participants joining online as well as in-person in Linz, Austria, between Aug. 30th, 2021, and Sept. 19th, 2021.
Up to 100 young people from all around world with different cultural and educational backgrounds will gather to explore and define new ways towards digital transformation and transformational change.
John Brumley
ArtSci collective member John Brumley developed a site-specific, location-based sound app called Wanderline, so that riders of the Linz tram system can listen to their movement across the city. Wanderline is a project to transform the world’s transportation networks (buses, streetcars, trains, roads, routes, walkways, etc.) into a new musical experience. Throughout 2020 and 2021, humanity faced a pandemic which limited our ability to travel and physically connect with other people. After having experienced profound isolation and travel restrictions, what kind of journeys will we make when we emerge from this pandemic? Wanderline is a location-based, audiovisual application that allows new travelers to enjoy music that can only be heard in a specific place. Wanderline can be experienced by installing the app on a smartphone and physically traveling along the featured “line” in geographic space.
Aisen Caro Chacin and Christopher Zahner
Pressure-Cuff Actuated Emergency Use Resuscitator System
Eurus is an emergency use resuscitator system that uses readily available medical supplies paired with an open-source electronic module that clinicians can use in the event of ventilator shortage. It provides Control and Assist/Control emergency ventilation to improve the survival prospects of patients compromised by COVID-19. The design automates a manual resuscitator (Ambu bag), that is squeezed by a blood pressure cuff which is actuated by the medical air and vacuum ports located in each patient room in the hospital. The air inflates the cuff, squeezing an Ambu bag, and the vacuum quickly releases the air from the cuff, reinflating the resuscitator. This mechanism uses two electro-mechanical valves controlled by 4 dials that set the breaths per minute, approximate tidal volume, Inhalation to Exhalation (I:E) ratio, and inhalation pressure sensitivity. It has a disposable pressure sensor in the patient airway that continuously monitors for safety and to assist patient breath.
Eli Joteva
IntraBeing premieres at Ars Electronica tomorrow! On site at JKU Unicenter Building floor 1 & online at intrabeing.joteva.com
We are delighted to announce the beginning of “STEAM Imaging III,” the interdisciplinary exploration of digital medicine and the human body, by Fraunhofer MEVIS and Ars Electronica in collaboration with the International Fraunhofer Talent School and the School Center Walle, Bremen and the UCLA ArtSci Center, Los Angeles, USA. This year, the artist in residence will be Eli Joteva, a Bulgarian intermedia artist and researcher based in Los Angeles, USA. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA Design Media Arts and is a member of the UCLA Art Sci collective. The concept of her artwork entitled “IntraBeing” is guided by the questions: What lies within the bounds of being? How do our physical bodies and their virtual representations affect one another? “IntraBeing” unfolds the potentials that arise from the intra-active relationship between material reality and virtual models in digital medicine and our extrasensory environments. The project will investigate the measuring and modeling capacities of medical imaging and simulation procedures to re-imagine the enigmatic spaces that emerge at the limits of their resolution and computation.
We are grateful to our partners GETTY, LEONARDO/ISAST, and CNSI
The UCLA ArtSci Collective comes together as a hybrid organism consisting of artists, scientists, humanitarians, ecologists, creative technologists and generally inquisitive humans all around the world. If you would like to be involved, please reach out to artscicenter@gmail.com
