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VIBRATIONS, FREQUENCIES & ECOTISTICAL ART SCI WORKS 

 

Hosted by:  Centre for Contemporary Art LAŹNIA

 


Friday, October 2, 2020

6:00 PM CET


Gdansk, Poland 


 

[UPDATE] Rewatch this online discussion 

 

Join the online discussion titled “Vibrations, Frequencies & Ecotistical ART SCI Works” accompanying Victoria Vesna's exhibition "Noise Aquarium" presented in Gdansk in LAZNIA 2 Centre for Contemporary Art (LAZNIA CCA). Creators of the "Noise Aquarium" project, as well as invited artists and scientists researching on sound, sea, oceans, marine animals and plankton will participate in the panel discussion.

 

Pollution of the ocean water has already become a fact existing in the social imagination. Images of whole islands of plastic waste circulating in the ocean do not leave the public indifferent, and information about whales or dolphins dying on the beaches evoke compassion and motivate rescue efforts. Can we extend our solidarity with non-human life forms also to plankton? We are indebted to those invisible oceanic microorganisms for the oxygen that we breathe, but do we remember about this every day? How can we bring invisible forms of pollution (such as ocean noise) closer to people's imagination and inspire them to act to protect marine biodiversity effectively, also against the noise? Can a pandemic that has caused noise levels in oceanic waters to drop, paradoxically, be our chance?


The “Noise Aquarium” project deals with the issue of pollution of the oceans by androgenic noise. The project resulted from highly interdisciplinary artist led effort with biologists, chemists, nano-toxicologists and an animator. Victoria Vesna worked together with the Scientific Visualization Lab at University of Applied Arts Vienna, United Motion Labs, NYU Steinhardt, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and the Department of Integrative Zoology at the University of Vienna, she developed the Noise Aquarium towards a common goal – to raise consciousness about threats to ocean biodiversity. Creating the work, the artist Victoria Vesna used 3D-scans of plankton-forming microorganisms obtained with unique scientific imaging techniques to immerse the audience in the ‘aquarium’ of diverse micro creatures projected as large as whales.

 

In the course of the discussion, we will consider how to broaden the human sensorium to include scales and phenomena that are inaccessible to everyday human experience - and therefore often overlooked and ignored. Pollution of the ocean water has already become a fact existing in the social imagination. Images of whole islands of plastic waste circulating in the ocean do not leave the public indifferent, and information about whales or dolphins dying on the beaches evoke compassion and motivate rescue efforts. Can we extend our solidarity with non-human life forms also to plankton? We are indebted to those invisible oceanic microorganisms for the oxygen that we breathe, but do we remember about this every day? How can we bring invisible forms of pollution (such as ocean noise) closer to people's imagination and inspire them to act to protect marine biodiversity effectively, also against the noise? Can a pandemic that has caused noise levels in oceanic waters to drop, paradoxically, be our chance? These are just some the questions around which we will be discussing.

 

Participants: Ari Friedlaender, Martina R. Fröschl, Yolande Harris, Sławomir Kwaśniewski, Robertina Šebjanič, Victoria Vesna

Session Chair: Anna Nacher

 


Coming soon
Online pop-up lab about plankton that will take the form of a film showcasing interviews with scientists relatedto the plankton as well as presenting archival materials.

 



NOISE AQUARIUM is part of the STUDIOTOPIA project supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

     
 

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