Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Members: Rajna SwaminathannAnya YermakovaJody DemingMelody Jue Date: April, 2022 This project is a multi-stage experimentation with ocean memory, featuring an interdisciplinary residency and performance as the primary creative research space and point of departure. Rajna Swaminathan’s Mangal ensemble gathers improvising musicians alongside visual and movement artists to experiment with the concept of a “score”– whether […]
To Become an Ocean
Members: Siobhan McDonaldKate StaffordChris Bean Date: April, 2022 To Become the Ocean is an ambitious project on ideas relating to critical sustainability across platforms for significant opportunities with a team of collaborators of exceptional proficiency in their respective fields. It presents a potentially career-defining chance for my practice to communicate the importance of sensing the […]
Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules
Members: Yinan WangMichelle BanksInsley HaciskiHeather Spence Date: April, 2022 What if ocean memory from long extinct organisms were still accessible by the traces they left behind? What if we can access ancient ocean memory by experiencing it through the senses of marine animals who no longer swim the seas? What did these individual marine animals […]
An Analog Analysis of the Ocean and Climate
Members: Patrick RafterChristine LeeKathie Foley-Meyer Date: October, 2020 Knowledge of how the global ocean evolves on geologic timescales is key for identifying potential “priming” events for ocean memory. Our understanding of past ocean conditions comes from scientists such as PI Rafter, who use the geological archives (e.g., fossils in ocean sediments) to create time-series of […]
Blue Dreams
Members: Mandy JoyeTom SkalakRika AndersonShayn Pierce-CottlerRebecca Rutstein Date: October, 2020 United by a sense of optimism and faith in the resilience and adaptability of the ocean, yet tempered by the humility of human culpability and the awe of all we have yet to understand, we propose to create an art exhibition / video projection that […]
Descent and Transformation
Members: Kathie Foley-MeyerMax MarcellusMelody JueStefan HelmreichAnya YermakovaAnna Davidson Date: July, 2020 A condition of Blackness is that it functions within the realm of the impossible, exceeding limitations via crucial strategies of fugitivity and adaptability. Frank B. Wilderson III, Black studies theoretician and author of the recently published “Afropessimism” notes that the classification of humanity has […]
OIOM: Genomic Transcoding
Members: Timothy WeaverDana Hemes Dominic Sivitilli Stephen Fiore Date: October, 2020 Sensory-interactive engagement with complex data deepens the understanding of our biology and reinforces profound visceral connections to distant lifeforms. Translation/transcoding of complex data to alternative sensoria (from scientific data to interactive 3D soundscapes) enables a shift in cognition, conceptual dialogue, generation of novel interpretations and transformative experiences for […]
OIOM: Non-anthropocentric Storytelling
Members: Dana HemesTim Weaver Dominic Sivitilli Stephen Fiore Date: July, 2020 Memories are made up of information fragments– residue collected through experience. These fragments gain meaning through context, strung together to build stories. Storytelling is a method of preserving and shaping collective memory. Who/ what are the ocean storytellers? How can humans share these ocean memories? OIOC:C/H 1 […]
OIOM: Octopus Cognition
Members: Dominic SivitilliTim Weaver Dana Hemes Stephen Fiore Date: October, 2020 Human social intelligence, and the associated ability to conceptualize the individuality, agency and mental state of other beings, provides us with an incredible capacity for empathy. This capacity, however, is limited by our sensations, perceptions, and motor abilities. Technology, when catered to these elements of our behavior, […]
The Ocean Memory Cabaret
Members: Lisa D’AmourMonqiue VerdinAlex KolkerJulie Huber Date: October, 2020 The Ocean Memory Cabaret is a series of public events that bring together artists, researchers, advocates, educators and elders to share stories, science and artwork that reckons with and revels in the wisdom and wonder of the ocean – her memories, current realities and future possibilities. […]