Critical Tourism (2): Underwater: Escaping (Sound) Pollution
The evening will be composed of two parts.
In the first one, Annick Bureaud and Robertina Šebjanič will reflect upon their joint residency at gray) (area. Annick Bureaud will provide, through some examples of artworks, a context of how we "inhabit" underwater worlds or make them uninhabitable through pollution and specifically sound pollution. Robertina Šebjanič will make a short presentation of her project Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification.
Aurelia 1+Hz is illuminating a phenomena of interspecies communication, sonification of the environment and the underwater acoustic / bioacoustics of jellyfish and its environment.
For over 500 hundred million years jellyfish have been pulsating in the world’s oceans and seas. Nowadays, amidst the immense environmental changes, their numbers are rapidly growing. Jellyfish are one of the rare organisms that seem perfectly suited for the Anthropocene era. The relationship between human and animal is a key to better understanding of natural environment. Humans have massive impact on other species and thus it is crucial to decode what they signal us and how they see us.
In the second part, story will be told and music will be played, addressing underwater (sound) pollution and alluding to the role of tourism in the negative impact on our environment.
The story of the Jellyfish and the Moon (written by Fabienne Gambrelle with illustrations by Anaïs Tondeur and Gabriel Grandry) will be told by Annick Bureaud, with music acompaniment by Robertina Šebjanič and Manja Ristić. Meant as a children book, the Jellyfish and the Moon is a contemporary tale of a jellyfish trying to avoid the (sound) pollution generated by tourism by escaping to the Moon where she dreams for a better world.
Robertina Šebjanič will follow by deploying Aquatocene in which the sound of the underwater pollution is at the core of the sound compositions. The subaquatic soundscape encourage us to reflect upon the anthropogenic sonic impact on the underwater habitat and marine life. The sound will be filled up also with Manja Ristič a violinist who plays the violin as an all-encompassing sound facility with a poetic sonic range of unconventional sound creation possibilities.
Projects and authors presented during the event:
Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification
by Robertina Šebjanič
The most substantial aims of Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification (production 2015) are to explore the phenomena of interspecies communication, sonification of the environment and the underwater acoustic / bioacoustics. An interactive performance features live transmitted sound generated by Aurelia Aurita – moon jellyfish and performer.
More info: http://robertina.net/aurelia-1hz-proto-viva-sonification
Aquatocene / The subaquatic quest for serenity
by Robertina Šebjanič
investigates the phenomenon of underwater noise pollution created by humankind in the seas and oceans. The sound compositions are a re-mix between the bioacoustics of marine life (shrimps, fish, sea urchins etc.), the aquatic acoustics and the presence of human generated noise in the world’s oceans and seas.
More info: http://robertina.net/aquatocene/
Jellyfish and the Moon
by Fabienne Gambrelle with illustrations by Anais Tondeur and Gabriel Grandry
told by Annick Bureaud
Jellyfish and the Moon recalls the story of a jellyfish who decided to leave her beloved water to move to the Moon to avoid the nuisances generated by tourism, hoping for a quiet place where, as the gravity of the Moon is low, she could "float around", almost like in the sea.
Violin Revealed - Alternative Guide to Violin's Sonic Life
by Manja Ristič
The project is a spontaneous outcome of 15 years long research covering fields of conceptual and experimental expression in instrumental performance. Ristić developed the system based on creative sonification of an instrument perceived as overall sound object and articulated through graphical notation of strokes, sounds and directions that is developed out of her personal improv style and experience. Notation consists of sonic, textural and improv forms technically elaborated and explained in order to be brought closer to composers, performers and professionals interested in crossing some barriers in instrumental performance.
More info: https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/7-miniatures-for-violin-solo
About authors
Annick Bureaud is an independent art critic, curator and event organiser, and researcher in art and technosciences. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats (www.olats.org), European sister organisation to Leonardo/Isast (www.leonardo.info). She wrote numerous articles and contribute to the French contemporary art magazine Art Press. She is the co-editor of the collection of essays Connexions : art, réseaux, media (Ensba Press, 2002) ; the author of Les Basiques : l’art « multimédia », introductory book to new media art (Leonardo/Olats, 2004) ; the editor of Water is in the Air: Physics, Politics and Poetics of Water in the Arts and the co-editor of Meta-Life. Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts, two Leonardo eBooks at MIT Press (2014) ; and the guest editor of a special issue of the magazine MCD on Arts & Sciences (2016). She organised many symposia, conferences and workshops among which Artmedia VIII: From Aesthetics of Communication to Net Art, Paris, 2002 and Visibility – Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flight, projet in collaboration between Leonardo/Olats and the International Festival @rt Outsiders, Paris, 2003. In 2009, she co-curated the exhibition (Un)Inhabitable? Art of Extreme Environments, Festival @rt Outsiders, MEP/European House of Photography, Paris. In 2012, she was the curator of the work Tales of a Sea Cow by Etienne de France at the PAV in Torino, Italy.
Web site: http://www.annickbureaud.net
Robertina Šebjanič is based in Ljubljana Slovenia/ is working in the cross field of art – technology – science. Robertina’s work encompasses audiovisual installations and noise/sound performances that tackle philosophical questions of our modern society unfolding her passion for understanding living systems and how they interact with the environment in context of Antropocene. The context for her ideas and concepts is often realized in collaboration with other authors (artist, scientist, humanist, makers, hackers…), and through interdisciplinary and informal integration embodies in her work. She is member of Hackteria Network and Theremidi orchestra. In 2016 her project Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification (collaboration with Slavko Glamočanin) was awarded with Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica 2016, and STARTS2016 nomination for project Time Displacement / Chemobrionic Garden (collaboration with Ida Hiršenfelder and Aleš Hieng Zergon) and nomination for the White Aphroid award for the project Aquatocene / Subaquatic quest for serenity. Robertina is internationally exhibited artist. She performed / presented / exhibited at solo and group exhibitions as well as in gallery’s, biennials, triennials and festivals: Ars electronica at Post City and OK center, Kosmica festival at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico city, Le Cube / Decalab_Paris, Ms Wissenschaft and Stadtwerkstatt_Linz, Pixel festival_Bergen, Art Laboratory Berlin, Device art 5.015 – Kontejner at Klovičevi dvori_Zagreb, Rencontres at Bandits-Mages_Bourges, Touch me festival by Kontejner at Klovičevi dvori_Zagreb, Eyebeam & CT-SWaM_New York, PORTIZMIR#3 -Triennale of contemporary art_ Izmir, AMRO festival_ Linz, Kiblix festival_Maribor, Gallery Kapelica_Ljubljana,...
Web site: http://robertina.net
Manja Ristić is orn in Belgrade 1979. Violinist, sound artists, composer, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improvisation & experimental sound related arts. Graduated at the Belgrade Music Academy, then gained PGDip at the Royal College of Music in London. In the past years Manja is focused on development of own notation system under the title - Violin Revealed, Alternative Guide to Violin’s Sonic Life, integrating intuitive graphics with microtonal instrumental approaches. Manja is also interested in concept-development of artificial cognitive memory through sound and AV practice. Her solo sound art merges instrumental and found object improvisation with field recording and electronics, building approach of listening as an act. Collaborates with wide range of artists & performers across Europe and further. Manja is a founder of the Association of Multimedia Artists Auropolis (since 2004) & editor of ArtSync web radio, permanent stream dedicated to experimental sound related arts.
Web site: http://manjaristic.blogspot.com/
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