• Date
      May 22, 2017

      Relational Listening

      Teoma Naccarato and John Maccallum / Canada-USA
      Center for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University - Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
      john-maccallum.com naccarato.org/dance
      In this workshop we guide a series of exercises intended to cultivate a relational quality of listening. Together, we will investigate a seemingly simple task: listening to and relating with a click-track. At times the click track will be generated by computer software, while in other moments the pulse will be derived in real-time from an electrocardiogram, worn by a dancer. As you listen, your challenge is not to follow, nor to anticipate the pulse. Instead, we ask that you attend to your unstable temporal relationship with the click track, such that you have agency to assemble and adapt the rhythmic textures that emerge between your actions and the media. This training process is highly structured and repetitive, and involves breathing, shifting weight, and eventually improvising in relation to the variable click track. While this technique was developed with contemporary dancers and musicians, it is accessible and relevant more broadly for researchers interested in approaches to somatic awareness within mediated environments, on stage and off.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      Sound Dialogues - From acoustic to gestural

      Gonzalo Biffarella, Gustavo Alcaraz and Julio Catalano / Argentina
      National University of Cordoba
      abctrio.blogspot.com.ar
      In this workshop we will approach critically towards data, considering it as a human political construct and learning to connect several representations of it: numerical, symbolic (code) and graphical (visualization) to speak and potentiate citizen voices, which is becoming more and more important in these times of data collection and releasing and in the particular context of post-conflict and the peace building efforts to come. We will code and create data visualizations and use them to show twitter voices of several actors related to peace building in Colombia.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      Data [h]ac[k]tivism and visualization workshop

      Offray Vladimir, Luna Cárdenas and Fernando Castro Toro / Colombia
      mutabit
      In this workshop we will approach critically towards data, considering it as a human political construct and learning to connect several representations of it: numerical, symbolic (code) and graphical (visualization) to speak and potentiate citizen voices, which is becoming more and more important in these times of data collection and releasing and in the particular context of post-conflict and the peace building efforts to come. We will code and create data visualizations and use them to show twitter voices of several actors related to peace building in Colombia.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      Noise, live cinema with live soundtrack

      Luis Angel Castro, Esteban Betancur CICLUX COLLECTIVE / Colombia
      ITM - U of A
      Using old and recycled technologies side by side with new ones, RUIDO will be born as the story of a city, in this case Medellin… some old photos, handcrafted projectors and the a lot of NOISE around us, around you, around everybody. CICLUX will make a live cinema performance with eighteen people moving around, improvising, building a film brick by brick; the piece will be unique and the act can be an audiovisual experience full of movement mixed with the environment. We design our own software and hardware to bring this realtime film always new to you. In our cities we are all surrounded by RUIDO (noise), and we will show using old and new technologies how this RUIDO has become a stellar character in our daily show. We will video map using a lot of different technologies creating a live cinema act that will show to the public the story of every city… We have made our own projectors, our own software and the piece will be made brick by brick by the hand of eighteen people just in front of your eyes.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      Zen Borg

      Martin Velez / USA
      Koan Medialab
      www.martancho.com
      In most governance systems, public policies seek to promote sectorization to measure the country's growth. The success of the strategic plans of the governments is determined by the stratification in biased productive sectors that move away from a holistic conception of the human experience. The tendency to generate actions of exclusion and privileged selection based on an imposed sectoral definition, creates spaces of opacity that prevent the emergence of experiences that propose new organizational logics from the unsuspected combination of the transdisciplinary. The strategic design emerges in the institutions, from the use of new technologies and the new value of advertising, to bring about an experimentation that contributes to overcoming gaps such as distrust of institutions. The research addresses two exercises of co-design, transdisciplinary and digital culture, faced by a transdisciplinary group of creatives from the Universidad de Playa Ancha in Valparaíso, Chile. Creating an analogy to Alice's journey through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, the contact with the dysfunctionality of the systems imposed by hierarchies, incapable of making the structure more flexible in the face of movement and the needs of transversality, is addressed.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      strophem! Lab

      Mary Tsang / USA
      MIT Media Lab and Hackteria
      magic.ooo
      The Estrophem! Lab is dedicated to the generation of DIY/DIWO estrogen hacking protocols, revealing the various entrenched ways that estrogen performs a molecular colonization on our bodies, societies, and ecosystems. Thanks to petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical industries, xenoestrogens pervade our environments and cause endocrine disruption, which can be seen as a form of slow violence that queers our bodies and bodies of non-human species. How do we as citizens effectively respond? strophem! Lab contains low-cost, accessible protocols for the detection and extraction of estrogen, and examples include transgenic yeast biosensors, solid phase extraction with cigarette filters, and DIY column chromatography with smashed silica gel and methanol. Our present ecological toxicity is deeply entrenched in powerful capitalistic forces. DIY/DIWO biohacking can function as a tool for creating new entry points and subjectivities, combating traditional power structures responsible for the production of knowledge, of bodies, and of technoscience. From these xeno-forces arise xeno-solidarities, capable of collectively hacking the systems of hormonal control.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      Basic Transmutation / Alien-Migration

      Aniara Rodado and Jean-Marc Chomaz / France
      aniara-rodado.com
      In Transmutation de base (Basic Transmutation), choreographer Aniara Rodado and artist physicist Jean-Marc Chomaz create a participatory space for immersive human-plant interaction. While the dancers perform movements derived from scientific research into the movement of plants, into mechanical transduction, morphogenesis and collective plant movements, the audience is invited on stage to be immersed into the olfactory scope produced in real time by the large distillation apparatuses that are blown , on purpose, as 'glitches'. In order to address and destabilize human stereotypes of how plants are considered, Rodado distills symbolically highly charged plants. Contact microphones and hydrophones amplify the micro-frictions emerging from a 'sound kitchen', an 'alchemist factory', completing the immersive smell scape with a sound scape to create intriguing effects of synesthesia. This piece aims at emphasizing the need to slow down to a 'plantamorphized' temporal scale, and engage in other sensory interaction modes than the human-centered sight beyond cognition in times of environmental crises and anthropogenic excesses.
    • Date
      May 22, 2017

      Leviathan

      Emilio Ocelotl, Jessica Rodriguez and Alejandro Brianza / Mexico-Argentina
      Scaffold
      www.scaffolding.in
      Leviathan is an interactive musical system still under development and experimentation that links musical and visual creation resulting in a live electronics piece for Paetzold recorder with live visuals. Leviathan attends performance interactivity but also the historically shaped relationships between the agents involved: composers, performers and computer. The specific indications for Leviathan are a series of indications directly related to the supercollider code control routines. The indications suggest to the performer many actions to change between fixed and variable states interacting with the live electronics. This project works with two elements: real time and fixed time, exploring differences and similarities between them through three dimensions: technical, musical and conceptual. From a technical point of view, this project is working with a system called “Machine listening”, so the piece can generate itself taking as inputs the sound events from the Paetzold recorder. The same happens with the visuals, there is a video generated in real time, which is mixed and processed with many different effects constructing a very special audiovisual context.
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