Items tagged by PoppydeSouza in Politics of Listening https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/1216/user/PoppydeSouza TagTeam social RSS aggregrator Luis Carlos Sotelo-Castro (PhD) is a Colombian artist-researcher. His practice is performance-based. He creates live environments of memory in collaboration with other artists and participants from specific communities and locations. Since 2002, he has done work with and for internally displaced people, Indigenous communities, migrants, and elderly people both in Latin America, in the United Kingdom, and in Canada. His vision as Concordia’s Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance (OHP) is to position listening as a subject of study in the context of oral history performance. His latest work, The Most Convenient Way Out, an ongoing project on listening, performance, and audio-walks in zones of armed conflict was commissioned by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and premiered in Colombia in July 2014. A second version was featured as part of the Why? What's Happening for the Young festival at London's Southbank Centre in October 2014. More recently, it has been adapted to Mexico and presented during the 39th Annual Conference in Local and Regional Anthropology of the Colegio de Michoacan, Zamora (October 2017). His creation-research of the last seven years has focused on exploring creative ways by which to set audiences/participants in motion/action within specific spaces. He frames their actions in space as integral to a remembrance activity. He is interested in what such activities and uses of personal memory might do for the different participants, both individually and collectively. He welcomes graduate students in the following areas: oral history performance and performances of memory, socially engaged art and performance, performance and activism, performance in zones of conflict and in post conflict contexts, performance and migration, performance and Indigenous Peoples in the context of truth and reconciliation efforts, listening research in the context of performance studies, applied performance and theatre, political performance, walking art, participatory performance, site-specific performance, documentary theatre, verbatim theatre, performance and space, performance and cartography and, more broadly, performance studies.         Research activities Listening in the context of Oral History Performance for Social Change In 2016,  I applied for and was granted a major Canada Foundation for Innovation infrastructure grant worth CAN$526,000 to establish what I call a Performing Listening Lab at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (http://storytelling.concordia.ca). This grant offers infrastructure for my Canada Research Chair-ten years research program, which I was awarded in 2016, and which aims at positioning listening as a subject of study in the context of oral history performance for social change.  The Performing Listening Lab will be launched in the Fall 2018 and will become a hub for creation research and for university-community collaborations bringing together theatre and performance studies, public and oral history, sound studies, listening research, and social innovation. Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:49:00 -0500 https://www.concordia.ca/faculty.html?fpid=luis-sotelo funding Joel Sherwood-Spring is a Wiradjuri man raised between Redfern and Alice Springs. Sydney based Architecture graduate and interdisciplinary artist working between solo works and FutureMethod studio. Working across research, activism, architecture, installation and speculative projects. Currently focussing on the contested narratives of Sydney’s and Australia’s urban culture and indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation. Joel is developing a work called 'Hearing Loss' as part of Liquid Architecture/Melbourne Law School program 'Eavesdropping' in Melbourne 2018. The sound installation explores the racial and (post)colonial politics of hearing loss and especially of the extremely high prevalence of otitis media amongst Indigenous Australians, something his mother has been affected by.   Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:44:00 -0400 http://runway.org.au/category/contributor/joel-spring/ contacts listening funding POSITION: Vice Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellow EMAIL: anjak@uow.edu.au TWITTER: @geotransversals WEB: anjakanngieser.com Research Interests and Expertise My research investigates how shifts in economic and political landscapes are registered in, and through, sound. I am particularly interested in the political ontology of sound: what sounds are perceptible on what human, inhuman and more-than human registers; what it means to translate sound; how bodies and matter are affected by sound – how bodies are subjectivated, racialised, gendered and classed through sound; and how listening to environments can invite political intervention and self-determination. My work is concerned with the ways that sound and communication are shaped by, and shape, human and more-than human relations to architectures and infrastructures, to larger atmospheres and ecologies, and to forces of power and governance that can are experienced and antagonised. Through this lens I have written on themes of voice and space, labour and surveillance, and experimental politics and world making. I am also developing sound based methods and practices through which to pose broader political, ecological and economic questions. Current Research Projects Listening to climate and community | Sound-mapping sea-level rise This project explores the effects of large-scale, rapid environmental transformations on regions and lives in the Pacific. Bringing together sound technologies, site based ethnographies with community organisations and collectives, and field recordings it discovers and maps how individuals and groups, plants, animal species and infrastructures, pre-empt and adapt to ecological, cultural and political changes in urban coastal areas significantly endangered by rising sea-levels. Listening to climate and community | Sound-mapping sea-level rise charts effects in three Pacific Island nations – Papua New Guinea, Kiribati and Fiji – made vulnerable due to geography, migration and resource extraction/ depletion. Working with interactive sound mapping techniques linking geographical sites to audio – the project will build an online platform featuring community, third sector, scientific and policy voices, alongside environmental and climate data sonifications (a sound equivalent of data visualisation) and soundscapes to evidence the multiple lived effects of rising sea-levels. As such, it creates a new way of understanding, and engaging with, the everyday stories of climate change. Tue, 15 May 2018 21:38:00 -0400 https://socialsciences.uow.edu.au/ausccer/people/UOW197189.html contacts social voice geography listening sound climate change community ecology environment funding Jessica Feldman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab. She earned a Ph.D. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University in 2017. She studies the ethics of localized and decentralized communication, consensus, and trust models, as they can apply to mobile mesh networks and distributed multiparty cryptographic methods. Her dissertation, titled “Listening Intently: Towards a Critical Media Theory of Ethical Listening” considers how advances in the surveillance of cell phone data, decentralized mobile networks, and vocal affective monitoring software are changing the ways in which listening exerts power and frames social and political possibilities. Her fellowship project, titled “Distribute, Randomize, Rotate: Democratic Values in Design for Decentralized Data”, aims to work out theories of normative ethics for these new modes of relating, and to influence the development of digital tools in order to inscribe democratic values at low and middle layers of their design. Tue, 15 May 2018 21:32:00 -0400 https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/person/jessica-feldman/ contacts communication ethics listening surveillance power funding Naomi Waltham-Smith is a theorist of sound and listening. In her research and creative projects, she is interested in how music and sound are implicated in some of the most significant and urgent political issues in our world today. Waltham-Smith is currently finishing a second monograph, The Sound of Biopolitics, under contract with Fordham University Press for the Commonalities series. Staging a confrontation between Derrida and Agamben, his speculative study traces how sound has been caught up in philosophy’s attempts to theorize the politics of sovereignty and shows how a focus on aurality sheds new light on the debates between deconstruction and theories of biopolitics. Other work on philosophies of listening is published in boundary 2, Current Musicology, Opera Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook of Timbre and Orchestration; an article on “Agamben’s Museicology” is forthcoming in The New Centennial Review.  Her recent work, supported by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, deploys a creative praxis of field recording and soundmapping to investigate urban sound ecologies and the conditions of aurality under neoliberalism and with the rise of right populisms. This work includes an analysis of psychotechnologies of listening on the Vegas Strip (forthcoming in Sound Studies), a study of the sound of precarity in the Parisian banlieues, a collaboration with photographer Alessandro Zanoni documenting the sights and sound of China’s urban villages, and investigations into practices of sound activism. She is also building a sound archive Listening under global Trumpsim that gathers together field recordings from cities around the globe and will be hosted by the Slought Foundation; some of her recent fieldwork in Paris is presented in a podcast for Sounding Out! Waltham-Smith has been awarded a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude to continue her work on urban soundscapes with a project entitled “Cart-otographies of Cities: Soundmapping Urban Political Economies.” Tue, 15 May 2018 21:29:00 -0400 https://www.sas.upenn.edu/music/people/standing-faculty/naomi-waltham-smith sound listening theory biopolitics music contacts neoliberalism funding Claudia a Cultural and Critical Studies MPhil/PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London. My PhD project involves writing a non linear history inspired by Peter Weiss’ Aesthetics of Resistance. She is a founding member and regular contributor of Nyx, the journal for the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include art and politics, technology and the body and the crossovers and tensions between image and text. She has a background as a visual artist and facilitates workshops in both arts and activist arenas. She has worked with activist groups such as the Precarious Workers Brigade and the Radical Housing Network. Her current research interests are organization and collective knowledge production, tools and machines, and the intersection between aesthetics, affect and politics. She has written on a variety of subjects including the sharing economy, art and protest, disability and technology, and governmentality. Her writings include articles for Nyx, the journal for the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, Dandelion, the journal at Birkbeck College and DIS online magazine. She also co-wrote The Force of Listening Lucia Farianti, a new publication looking at the role of listening in contemporary conjunctions between art and activism, published as part of the Doormats series by Errant Bodies Press. http://www.errantbodies.org/doormats_6.html   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:28:00 -0400 https://claudiafirth.wordpress.com/about/ contacts uk listening activism art funding Sarah is a Research Fellow at Griffith University on the project "Creative Barkly" and a practitioner, researcher and educator in applied theatre, specializing in participatory arts and prison theatre. She is currently leading the project "Listening to Country: Exploring the value of acoustic ecology with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison", funded by the Lowitja Institute. s.woodland@griffith.edu.au         Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:56:00 -0400 https://experts.griffith.edu.au/academic/s.woodland radio sound indigenous theatre listening artist country funding Dr Malcolm James Post: Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (Media and Film) Other posts: Member (Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth) Location: SILVERSTONE SB 320 Email: Malcolm.James@sussex.ac.uk Telephone numbers Internal: 2968 UK: 01273 872968 International: +44 1273 872968 Research expertise: childhood and youth, cultural studies, diaspora race/ethnicity, ethnography, participant methods, postcolonial studies, Race and colonialism, race and ethnicity, Sound studies, urban culture download vCarddownload vCard to your mobile Biography Malcolm James is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at University of Sussex, UK. His research interests are in postcolonial and critical race approaches to youth, urban culture, migration, music and sound. He is author of Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation published by Palgrave. Role Malcolm James is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex. Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:00:00 -0400 http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/355671 postcolonial studies funding