I had the pleasure to attend to and participate in the NowNet Arts Conference 2019 in the Primary Site: INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (IACS), STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, USA. This unique conference brings for the first time artists and scholars working in Telematic and Networked Music and Art together, specially counting on Satellite sites (in California, Berlin, Edinburgh, Ghent), where people can attend with their physical presence and at the same time network and connect with other satellites and remote sites across US, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. This initiative is timely for us to share experiences and explore together the social and environmental purpose of telematic and networked art, and its applications, which contribute clearly to the environmental challenges of travelling between distant locations, and the implications that it has for new forms of communication and encounters through technologies and sound.
The paper I presented in the conference has been recently published in the new Journal of Network Music and Arts, JONMA, first of its kind. Thanks to my co-authors and congratulations!
Alarcon Diaz, Ximena, Paul Boddie, Cagri Erdem, Eigil Aandahl, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Mari Lesteberg, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius. “Sensing Place and Presence in an INTIMAL Long-Distance Improvisation.” Journal of Network Music and Arts 1, 1 (2019). https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol1/iss1/3
Abstract:
“INTIMAL is an interactive system for relational listening, which integrates physical-virtual interfaces for people to sonically improvise between distant locations. The aim is to embrace two key aspects in the context of human migration: the sense of place and the sense of presence. This paper reflects on the use of INTIMAL in a long-distance improvisation between the cities of Oslo, Barcelona and London in May 2019. This improvisation was performed by nine Colombian migrant women, who had been involved in a research process using the Deep Listening® practice developed by Pauline Oliveros. Here we describe the performance setting and the implementation of the first two interfaces of the system: MEMENTO, an “embodied” navigator of an oral archive of Colombian women’s testimonies of conflict and migration; and RESPIRO, a sonification system that transmits and sonifies live, breathing signals between distant locations. We reflect on how the two interfaces facilitated and challenged the improvisers’ listening experiences and connections.”
Thanks to the organisers of NowNet Arts Conference Sarah Weaver, Margaret Schedel and Chris Chafe! Looking forward to the next NowNet Arts conference on 2020. Congratulations on the new JONMA Journal.
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