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Thanks Patrick for getting us started on this exciting topic!
I am really thrilled that this week we have Jasmeen Bains, Yi Zhou and Jo
Simalaya Alcampo leading off the discussion. One of the great things about this
particular grouping is that Jasmeen and Yi's recent project "The Language of
Plants" resonates so well with Jo Simalaya's "Singing Plants Reconstruct
Memory."
Both projects sonify plants through electro-acoustic assemblages. And yet,
these interactive installation/performance pieces approach plants in very
different ways, and their works produce very different meanings and effects.
One project begins from the premise that plants generate their own sounds, just
outside of human perception, while the other engages the electro-conductivity
of plants to draw human sounds out of plant bodies.
Here are links to these different projects:
http://studioforlandscapeculture.com/The-Language-of-Plants
http://www.josimalaya.com/singing-plants.html
I wonder as a way of starting off the discussion, our artists might reflect on
the question of plant sonification. How do these works produce a kind of plant
vocality? Why bring sound and voice to plants? What does it mean to bring plant
soundings and responsivity into human perception? What are some of the
remarkable things you learned about plants both in making these works and in
sharing them with others?
I'm sure these questions will generate many more! Looking forward to following
how this unfolds!
best wishes,
Natasha
Natasha Myers
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology | Convenor, Politics of
Evidence Working Group | York University
310 Bethune College, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada | Tel.
(416) 736-2100 x 70660 | Fax (416) 736-5768 | nmy...@yorku.ca
Website | Plant Studies Collaboratory | Sensorium | The Technoscience Salon |
Politics of Evidence | The Write2Know Project
On 2015-06-01, at 11:39 AM, Patrick Keilty wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I just have some minor revisions to our schedule for guest
> discussants, and I mistakenly left out a bio in my introduction. My
> apologies. Below please find the corrected schedule and additional
> bio. I'll of course introduce the discussants again at the beginning
> of their weeks.
>
> June 1 - 7: Week 1: Jasmeen Bains, Yi Zhou, and Jo Simalaya Alcampo
>
> June 8 - 14: Week 2: Alana Bartol and Pei-Ying Lin (with Dimitrios
> Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss)
>
> June 15 - 21: Week 3: Amanda White and Špela Petrič (with Dimitrios
> Stamatis, and Jasmina Weiss)
>
> June 22 - 28: Week 4: Laura Cinti, Grégory Lasserre, and Anaïs met den Ancxt
>
> Scenocosme is a collaboration between Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den
> Ancxt. Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two artists
> working together as a duo under the name Scenocosme. They work and
> live in France. They develop the concept of interactivity in their
> artworks by using multiple kinds of expression. They mix art and
> digital technology in order to find substances of dreams, poetries,
> sensitivities and delicacies. Their works come from possible
> hybridizations between the living world and technology which meeting
> points incite them to invent sensitive and poetic languages. They also
> explore invisible relationships with our environment : they can feel
> energetic variations of living beings. They design interactive
> artworks, and choreographic collective performances, in which
> spectators share extraordinary sensory experiences. Plants of their
> artwork Akousmaflore react to the human touch by different sounds.
> They use also water (Fluides), stones (Kymapetra) and wood (Ecorces;
> Matières sensibles) as elements capable to generate tactile, visual
> and sound sensory interactivity. Their artworks were presented in
> several contemporary art and digital art spaces. Since 2004, they have
> exhibited their interactive installation artworks at ZKM Karlsruhe
> Centre for Art and Media (Germany), at Museum Art Gallery of Nova
> Scotia (Canada), at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh (USA), at Daejeon
> Museum of Art (Korea), at Bòlit / Centre d’Art Contemporani (Girona)
> and in many international biennals and festivals.
> http://www.scenocosme.com/
> Patrick Keilty
> Assistant Professor
> Faculty of Information
> Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
> University of Toronto
> http://www.patrickkeilty.com/
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Renate Terese Ferro <rfe...@cornell.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Welcome Natasha Myers and thank you for joining our -empyre moderating
>> team members Selmin Kara, and Patrick Keilty for the June discussion on
>> -empyre soft-skinned space,"Plant Art and New Media². This
>> cross-disciplinary topic will bring together those interested in art,
>> science, popular culture, philosophy and anthropology to examine the
>> dynamics between culture and nature. We look forward to a topic that
>> tests the grounds for discussions between human and nonhuman, and organic
>> and machinic life. Natasha, Selmin and Patrick will be introducing this
>> topic shortly as well as this month¹s guests but I did want to thank them
>> for organizing the monthly topic. We all look forward to it.
>>
>> Happy June to all
>> Renate
>>
>> Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University,
>> the Director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory, Convenor of the Politics
>> of Evidence Working Group, and co-organizer of Toronto's Technoscience
>> Salon. Her anthropological research examines forms of life in the arts and
>> biosciences. She is the author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models,
>> Modelers and Excitable Matter (Duke, 2015), and has published articles on
>> modes of embodiment, the senses, and affects in the life sciences
>> indifferences, Social Studies of Science, Science Studies, and edited
>> volumes. Her recent research examines the arts and sciences of botanical
>> experimentation, the contours of the vegetal sensorium, and the affective
>> ecologies of plant/insect relations. Her new work tracks the formation and
>> propagation of plant publics as artists and scientists stage interventions
>> in sites like botanical gardens. Links to her research, research-creation
>> projects, and publications can be
>> found at http://natashamyers.org <http://natashamyers.org/>
>>
>> Selmin Kara is Assistant Professor of Film and New Media at OCAD
>> University. She has critical interests in digital aesthetics and tropes
>> related to the anthropocene and extinction in cinema as well as the use of
>> sound and new technologies in contemporary documentary. Selmin¹s work has
>> appeared and is forthcoming in Studies in Documentary Film, Poiesis,
>> the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, Music and Sound
>> in Nonfiction Film, Post-Cinema, and The Philosophy of Documentary Film.
>> She has recently co-edited a journal issue on documentary art activism and
>> is currently co-editing an anthology on emergent forms and genres in
>> contemporary documentary, to be published by Routledge in Fall 2015.
>>
>> Patrick Keilty is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the
>> University of Toronto and Instructor in the Bonham Centre for Sexual
>> Diversity Studies there. Professor Keilty works at the intersection of
>> media studies, technology studies, and information studies. His primary
>> teaching and research field is digital culture, with a particular focus on
>> visual culture, new media art, metadata and database logic, database
>> cinema, pornography, gender, sexuality, race, and critical theory. His
>> monograph project, provisionally titled Database Desire, engages the
>> question of how our embodied engagements with labyrinthine qualities of
>> database design mediate aesthetic objects and structure sexual desire in
>> ways that abound with expressive possibilities and new
>> narrative and temporal structures. Recently, he has published and
>> presented his SSHRC-funded research on a wide variety of topics, including
>> embodiment and technology, algorithmic
>> display, the history of information retrieval, technology and
>> transformations of gendered labor, women in computing, design
>> and experience, compulsion and control, metadata and the creation of
>> fetishistic networks, and feminist and queer new media and technoscience
>> issues generally. More at http://www.patrickkeilty.com/.
>>
>> Renate Ferro
>> Visiting Assistant Professor of Art,Cornell University
>> Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306
>> Ithaca, NY 14853
>> Email: <rfe...@cornell.edu <mailto:r...@cornell.edu>>
>> URL: http://www.renateferro.net <http://www.renateferro.net/>
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