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Workshop & listening session on Radio Amnion, a multi-year sound art project that broadcasts compositions via a submerged neutrino telescope 2.5 kilometres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean during full moon. In a collective listening session, oceanic works by various artists will be heard and discussed.
The focus is on sound as a relational technology, more-than-human forms of knowledge, planetary networks and concepts such as pluriverse and web of life.
The workshop requires no prior knowledge and is open to anyone interested. We encourage students and sound artists working with similar formats to share works, audio essays, field recordings or sound compositions that reflect their interest in the living matter and activities of the Earth and beyond. The workshop will be conducted in English, with the option of whispered translation into German.
In cooperation with the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures (University of Applied Arts Vienna).
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"Feeling Our Way Forward" is a new blind-creation workshop that invites participants to engage the body as a source of sensory wisdom, imagining how we might survive collectively in uncertain worlds.
Creating a collective sculpture without eye-sight, the group explores uncertainty, vulnerability, and interdependence as generative forces. In darkness we challenge ocular-centric ways of knowledge-making, and instead elevate embodied and relational ways of world-making.
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In this workshop, second-semester BA Information Design students present prototypical outcomes from a course running in parallel at FH JOANNEUM as part of the Elevate Festival. The workshop is based on a speculative scenario in which the internet has been switched off permanently and examines how vital signs can be identified within systems under sustained pressure. Students present design artefacts that explore how social relations, communication and everyday organisation might function without digital infrastructures. The works consider how orientation and responsibility are negotiated in the absence of networked systems. Together with the teaching staff, the workshop provides a space for discussion on the role of design in making such conditions readable and debatable.
Teaching staff:
Birgit Bachler (AT)
Andreas Förster (AT)
Chad Reichert (US)