The Ocean Memory Cabaret
The Ocean Memory Cabaret 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. Imagine an evening of 10-15 […]
Descent & Transformation
Team Leader: Descent & Transformation 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 always kept certain lives outside of […]
Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules
Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules 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 […]
Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation 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 it […]
To become an ocean
To Become an Ocean 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 ocean as a source […]
A Multisensorial Collaboratorium for Transcoding and Interacting with the Ocean Memory Datascape
A Multisensorial Collaboratorium for Transcoding and Interacting with the Ocean Memory Datascape “A Multisensorial Collaboratorium for Transcoding and Interacting with the Ocean Memory Datascape” is an art-science investigation whose objectives and activities will be focused to develop/implement an ocean memory multisensory collaboratorium (OMMCoLab) prototype among investigators from University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices (EDP) program […]
OIOM: Octopus Cognition
OIOM: Octopus Cognition 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, can extend our capacity for […]
An Analog Analysis of the Ocean and Climate
An Analog Analysis of the Ocean and Climate 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 […]
OIOM: Non-anthropocentric Storytelling
OIOM: Non-anthropocentric Storytelling 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 is an exploratory first chapter. […]
OIOM: Genomic Transcoding
OIOM: Genomic Transcoding 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 art-science public audiences. An […]