Oysters as an Agent of Ocean Memory
Oysters as an Agent of Ocean Memory The Eastern Oyster has existed on the coast of Sapelo Island for thousands of years, recording environmental conditions in its shell. As conditions change, the oysters move but leave the legacy of their shell reefs which slows coastline change. This Ocean Memory of the Oyster has repeatedly appeared […]
Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces
Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces: Performance-Ritual in coastal Portugal (Portuguese below; link to film here) This project is a performance-ritual on the Portuguese coast that aims to provide illustrative and embodied material about the role of oceanic interfaces as sites for recovering […]
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound is an 8-channel sonic composition that explores the possibility that sound is an ideal medium for translating senses of smell, or chemosensation underwater.It invites the listener to smell the kelp forest with their ears, a mode of synaesthesia. We explore the […]
Senses Submerged
Senses Submerged The Senses and Sensing workshop asked the OM community to think about senses in the context of ocean memory, but for many of us in the community, our own underwater embodied experience is limited. In our conversations, divers in the community could speak more concretely about their personal understanding of being in the […]
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 […]