In the Field 2 | Biographies
In the Field 2 | Biographies
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Chairs
Mark Peter Wright is a Reader in Critical Sound Practice and member of CRiSAP, LCC, UAL. His recent book Listening After Nature is published by Bloomsbury, 2022/23. As an artist-researcher, he works between the field and lab, site and gallery, and is committed to amplifying forms of power and poetics within the creative use of sound and documentary media. Website
Presenters
Victoria Karlsson is a sound artist and researcher. She is interested in our relationship to sounds and listening and how they intersect with and relate to broader cultural contexts and beliefs. In 2022 she completed her PhD at CRiSAP, University of the Arts, London. In her research project, she defined and explored “inner sounds”, sounds we experience as part of our inner world of thoughts and emotions. She works with sound and listening across a variety of mediums, such as performance, composition, text-based scores and installation. Website | Instagram
Thursday 4 July
Panel 1. Placing the Field
Anton Spice, Gabriele de Seta, Nele Möller, Sally Ann McIntyre
Chair: Mark Peter Wright
Gabriele de Seta is, technically, a sociologist. He is a Researcher at the University of Bergen, where he leads the ALGOFOLK project (“Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation”) funded by a Trond Mohn Foundation Starting Grant (2024-2028). Gabriele holds a PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica and at the University of Bergen, where he was part of the ERC-funded project “Machine Vision in Everyday Life”. His research work, grounded on qualitative and ethnographic methods, focuses on digital media practices, sociotechnical infrastructures and vernacular creativity in the Chinese-speaking world. He is also interested in experimental, creative and collaborative approaches to knowledge-production. Website
Nele Möller is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, critical field recording and listening practices. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project ‘The Forest Echoes Back‘ is embedded in the artistic research cluster ‘deep histories fragile memories‘ and oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by climate change and an adherent bark beetle infestation. Since 2023, she has been producing ‘Listening Fields’ at the free radio station Radio Panik in Brussels. Besides that, she performs under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark and has released recordings on Futura Resistenza and RDS Rec. Website | Instagram
Sally Ann McIntyre is a Hobart-born poet, writer/researcher, sound and radio artist who recently relocated to Melbourne/Naarm from Dunedin/Otakou, Aotearoa. Since 2008 she has programmed the Mini FM station radio cegeste 104.5FM as a small mobile platform for various site-responsive radio art events, reimagining the radio as a form of process-based fieldwork in particular landscapes and environmental/social contexts. Working with transmission, field recording and archival sound technologies, her projects investigate the history of soundscapes as sites of ecological absence and degradation, and charted and imagined sites of memory, in the creation of alternate sound archives. Exhibitions include Nature Reserves (GV Art, London, 2013), Ghost Biologies (Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2016), Das Grosse Rauschen: the Metamorphosis of Radio, (Halle, Germany, 2016), the Audiograft Festival (Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2018). Her sound work has been published on the labels Consumer Waste, winds measure, Idealstate, Impulsive Habitat, Sonic Arts Research Unit (SARU), and as a sonic component to an exhibition about the paranormal in contemporary art practice: Medium Paranormal Field Recordings and Compositions, 1901-2017 by The Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), Atlanta, U.S. Website | Instagram
Panel 2A. Capturing and Releasing Lifeworlds
Emiddio Vasquez, Jonathan Prior & Sandra Jasper, Leena Lee & Guillermo Guevara, Rachel Shearer
Chair: Angus Carlyle
Dr Sandra Jasper is Assistant Professor for Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Deputy Director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). Her research interests are urban nature, sound studies, and feminist theory. Website
Leena Lee (Lena Ortega) (MX), artist, researcher, and radio producer who, delves into nature-culture environmental relationships, body perception, and affective topographies through tonal research of field recordings, light, and voice. Francisca Zalaquett (CL), sound anthropologist and Senior Researcher at UNAM's Center for Maya Studies specializes in public representations in open Maya spaces and the acoustics of Mayan instruments. Fernando González García (MX), ornithologist and Senior Academic Technician at the Institute of Ecology focuses on bird ecology and conservation, acoustic communication in birds and anuran amphibians in natural and anthropized environments, and soundscape ecology. Guillermo Guevara (MX), musician and sound researcher, specializes in timbral transfer tools, intonation systems from field recordings, and binaural/multichannel audio spatialization.
Based in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Rachel Shearer is an artist and composer who affiliates to the kinship groups of Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga ā Māhaki and Pākehā (NZ European). Her work explores culturally informed practices of close listening to the earth and its environment, drawing on a divergent set of practices. Shearer has been performing and releasing recordings of her experimental music for multiple decades alongside site specific installations; collaborator as a music maker and sound designer for film, dance, performance; practice-led research/writing on the materiality and affective qualities of sound through western and Māori philosophies and technological practices. Academic Profile | Website
Panel 2B. Concrete and Abstract: Pressing Record and Activating Collections
Daryl Jamieson, Dayang Magdalena Nirvana Yraola, Gustavo Branco Germano and Fernando Iazzetta, Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson and Björt Sigfinnsdóttir
Chair: Louise Marshall
Panel 3A. Hearing Criticalities: Layers in Space and Time
Allie Martin, Chantal Eyong, Hector MacInnes, Ingeborg Entrop
Chair: Cathy Lane
Allie Martin is an ethnomusicologist and artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. She is currently an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in the Music Department and the Cluster for Digital Humanities and Social Engagement. Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound and power. Her forthcoming first book, Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC, explores the relationships between race, sound, and gentrification in the nation's capital. Martin is the director of the Black Sound Lab at Dartmouth College, a research environment dedicated to amplifying Black life and decriminalizing Black sound through digital practice.
alliemartinphd.com
Chantal Eyong is a writer, artist, and media producer based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work focuses on Afro-diasporic narratives with relation to self, placemaking, archives, and memory. Her work has been featured on PBS, the Smithsonian Museum, and national/international film festivals. The short documentary she co-produced, “Thailand Untapped,” received a regional Emmy nomination in 2013. Chantal holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of California Riverside and is currently a doctoral student in the Media Arts + Practice program at the University of Southern California.
Website | @chantaltewitt
Panel 3B. Memory Machines: Inclusion, Ethics, Authenticity
Lila Lakehal, Matt Lewis, Mitchell Akiyama, Nathan Wolek, Neil Spencer Bruce
Chair: Kate Carr
Friday 5 July
Panel 4A. The Social Lives of Sounds
David Vélez, Kate Carr, Lisa Hall, Spencer MINQ Carter
Chair: Cathy Lane
Panel 4B. Performing Archives, Hearing Histories, Tuning, Technologies
Alexander Collinson, Gisa Weszkalnys, Maja Zećo, Rachel Grant and William Otchere-Darko, Jonas Spieker, Nicol Parkinson
Chair: Hector MacInnes
Alexander Collinson is Sound and Exhibition designer with a BA in Sound Design and MA in Narrative Environments. His flair for compelling sound design has seen his work featured across Europe in a number of locations including national museums such as the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Alexander's research focuses on themes of conflict and trauma, while taking an alternative approach to museum interpretation utilising sound and the human voice at the forefront of his work, most notably with the use of oral testimony and recorded sound archives. Website
Panel 5A. Listening, Relistening, Reflecting, Resisting
Amias Hanley, Nombuso Mathibela and Sibonelo Gumede, Paulo Dantas, Pragya Sharma
Chair: Cannach MacBride
Panel 5B. Amplification, Attention, Reception
Anandit Sachdev, Jacek Smolicki, Jess Pinney, Julia Barton
Chair: Mark Peter Wright
Panel 6A. Interference, Energy, Technology, Polyphony
Bariya: Pratyush Pushkar and Riya Raagini, Soundcamp: Mort Drew, Grant Smith, Dawn Scarfe and Sasha Baraister, Julian Weaver, Matt Parker
Chair: Kate Carr
Panel 6B. Sensory Collaborations
Ecka Mordecai, GUI Ren and Ryo Ikeshiro, Samuel Hertz, Tania Rubio
Chair: Victoria Karlsson
Panel 7A. Bodies, Care and Ghosts
Banu Çiçek Tülü, Helen Anahita Wilson, Joanna Penso, Leon Clowes
Chair: Louise Marshall
Panel 7B. Sonic Ethnographies
Anna Vermeulen, Eisuke Yanagisawa, Karl Salzmann, Tilly Mason
Chair: Angus Carlyle
Saturday 6 July
Panel 8. Audio Channels: Swarms, Streams, Samples, Dummy Heads
David Michael and Michael Clemow, Ecka Mordecai and Rory Salter, John Grzinich, Lia Mazzari
Chair: Mark Peter Wright
Panel 9. Localities and Elsewheres
alejandro t. acierto, Moushumi Bhowmik, Peter Cusack, Robert O Beahrs, Safeya Alblooshi
Chair: Angus Carlyle
Panel 10. Acoustic Witnessing
Alejandro Castillejo- Cuéllar, Alexander Vojvoda and Korab Krasniqi, Lara James and Leah Kardos, Luz Maria Sanchez Cardona
Chair: Cathy Lane
Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Former Commissioner of Colombia's Truth Commission, Colombia. He has significant ethnographic experience in the fields of violence, culture and subjectivity, political transitions in Latine America and Africa. His work has dealt, over the last 25 years, with the impact that different forms of violence have had on the existential landscape of human experience. In this context, he has conducted collaborative fieldwork in Colombia and South Africa with victims’ and social organizations and former combatants. Currently, associate professor of anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Alexander Vojvoda is community media activist and sociologist. He is currently Project Manager with forumZFD in Kosovo and works in the areas of conflict-sensitive journalism, reporting on dealing with the past, community and non-majority media, and memorialization processes in public spaces. Alexander holds an MSc in Sociology from the JKU Linz (AT) and an MA in Political Communications from the Goldsmiths College London (UK). Previously, Alexander collaborated with Bread for the World, World Association of Community Radios, the Council of Europe, Deutsche Welle Akademie and UNESCO amongst others.
Korab Krasniqi works as project manager at the German organization in Prishtina, Kosovo, forumZFD (Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.|Forum Civil Peace Service). He is a researcher, civil society, and memory activist, focused on dealing with the past, transitional justice, and memorialization. He is completing an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Prishtina, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Korab has attended the fellowship program at Columbia University, NYC, on Historical Dialogue and Accountability and was part of numerous dealing with the past educational programs, locally and internationally. Korab explores photography, art and museology as a medium to foster a broader conversation on memory and the difficult past. Website | Facebook
Saturday 6 July Workshops
Workshop 1A Playing Back
Workshop 1B The Eurovision Field Recording Project
Workshop 2A The Things You Hear And The Stories You Write About Them
Workshop 2B Our shared georhythms: bodies, scores, mixtures
Exhibition
In the Field / Of the Field
Sound Works
Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar | Former Commissioner of Colombia's Truth Commission, Colombia. He has significant ethnographic experience in the fields of violence, culture and subjectivity, political transitions in Latine America and Africa. His work has dealt, over the last 25 years, with the impact that different forms of violence have had on the existential landscape of human experience. In this context, he has conducted collaborative fieldwork in Colombia and South Africa with victims’ and social organizations and former combatants. Currently, associate professor of anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Video Works
Cheng Yang is an emerging artist and a researcher, who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and now is a PhD candidate at the City University of Hong Kong. Cheng applies arts-based research to cultivate communication between humans, nature and culture. Her artwork involves art installations, interdisciplinary art, sound art and media art to allow the audience to perceive our society where culture and nature merge. In 2024, Cheng held two solo exhibitions at the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong, and Art House, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden. Website | Instagram
Ruby Caurlette is a visual artist and activist based in Syria. She works mainly with digital media, videos, and AR installation. Ruby's work explores the ongoing human interactions related to the various human aspects, and focuses specifically on the female presence, women's bodies, and issues of questioning the collective memory in light of the Syrian war using drawings, visual testimonies, and oral history. her last project “Return and Confusion” explored the journey after her return to her homeland Syria. It examined ways to connect the identity of returnees to the social and cultural fabric, from the perspective of returnees by documenting that part of their lives. Instagram
Liv Kisby is an audiovisual practitioner, socio-cultural researcher and musician, based in London. Their practice explores place-making, psychogeography and sensory experience through experimental non-fiction, using multimedia with a focus on sound. They are interested in developing a community-oriented approach to researching and producing stories about in-between places, speculating about the future through collaborative and experimental methods. Liv holds a Distinction in MA Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and a First Class degree in BA Media, Communications and Cultural Studies with a specialisation in Radio from Goldsmiths, University of London. Website | Instagram
Kimberly Forero-Arnías (she/ella) is an experimental animator whose work has screened across the United States as well as internationally at festivals including Rotterdam, Ann Arbor, Images Festival and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She is the recipient of various awards including the SMFA Traveling Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and the Film Studies Center Fellowship at Harvard. Website
Jiaxi Xie | I am a music PhD student in ethnomusicology and sound art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Before studying in the UK, I lived in China for over twenty years, where I majored in literature as an undergraduate. I later did masters in Social Anthropology and Visual Anthropology in London. I am intrigued by combining ethnographic visual methods and sonic field recordings in my projects.
Sally Ann McIntyre is a Hobart-born poet, writer/researcher, sound and radio artist who recently relocated to Melbourne/Naarm from Dunedin/Otakou, Aotearoa. Since 2008 she has programmed the Mini FM station radio cegeste 104.5FM as a small mobile platform for various site-responsive radio art events, reimagining the radio as a form of process-based fieldwork in particular landscapes and environmental/social contexts. Working with transmission, field recording and archival sound technologies, her projects investigate the history of soundscapes as sites of ecological absence and degradation, and charted and imagined sites of memory, in the creation of alternate sound archives. Exhibitions include Nature Reserves (GV Art, London, 2013), Ghost Biologies (Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2016), Das Grosse Rauschen: the Metamorphosis of Radio, (Halle, Germany, 2016), the Audiograft Festival (Oxford Brookes University, UK, 2018). Her sound work has been published on the labels Consumer Waste, winds measure, Idealstate, Impulsive Habitat, Sonic Arts Research Unit (SARU), and as a sonic component to an exhibition about the paranormal in contemporary art practice: Medium Paranormal Field Recordings and Compositions, 1901-2017 by The Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), Atlanta, U.S. Website | Instagram