3rd Sensing the Forest Seminar: Liz O'Brien and Alice Eldridge

The AHRC Sensing the Forest project is organising a series of three fortnightly online seminar talks with experts related to artistic, social and scientific interventions in the forest or other natural landscapes with a special focus on acoustic phenomena.

The last but not least online seminar will take place on Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:00 - 16:30 UK time (UTC+0 GMT) - see https://www.timeanddate.com for other timezones.

We will have the following presentations:
- Liz O'Brien - Sounds in and of the Forest: Can We Connect People to Nature Through Sound?, who will talk about the ecotone network, an interdisciplinary team focused on health and wellbeing, conservation ecology, and education; and the ACCESS project, which links social science with environmental issues.
- Alice Eldridge - Tuning in to Soundscape Dynamical Complexity, who will discuss natural soundscapes by sharing some initial research results exploring a range of approaches to map, model and measure the dynamical complexity of soundscapes across temporal resolutions.

You can find more info and register for the free event on the following Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sensing-the-forest-seminar-liz-obrien-and-alice-eldridge-tickets-745155689727

All are welcome!

 

2nd Sensing the Forest Seminar: Saloni Shah and Jones/Bulley

 

The AHRC Sensing the Forest project is organising a series of three fortnightly online seminar talks with experts related to artistic, social and scientific interventions in the forest or other natural landscapes with a special focus on acoustic phenomena.

The second online seminar will take place on Wed, 1 Nov 2023 15:00 - 16:30 UK time (UTC+01) - see https://www.timeanddate.com for other timezones.

We will have the following presentations:
- Saloni Shah - How Information Design Can Save Forest Ecosystems, who will give an insightful talk delving into the art of crafting meaningful data storytelling projects focusing on forest conservation.
- Jones/Bulley - Living Symphonies, the artist duo will give an in-depth summary of Living Symphonies, a landscape sound installation that portrays the thriving activity of a forest’s ecosystem, and its precursors.

You can find more info and register for the free event on the following Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sensing-the-forest-seminar-saloni-shah-and-jonesbulley-tickets-745112580787

All are welcome!

25 Oct 2023 - CHIME Seminar with Chris Nash and Anna Xambó

 
The tenth free online CHIME Music and HCI Seminar will have Chris Nash and Anna Xambó. This will be on Wednesday 25 October (at 4pm UK time).
Chris Nash will be discussing what happens beyond NIME, when projects move beyond academia, and exploring this through the lens of the Manhattan project: http://nash.audio/manhattan
Anna Xambó will be introducing the AHRC project Sensing the Forest, on raising awareness and understanding of forest environmental data and how they relate to climate change: https://sensingtheforest.github.io
You can sign up via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/739356454057

1st Sensing the Forest Seminar: Semiconductor and Peter Sinclair

 

The AHRC Sensing the Forest project is organising a series of three fortnightly online seminar talks with experts related to artistic, social and scientific interventions in the forest or other natural landscapes with a special focus on acoustic phenomena.

The first online seminar will take place on Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:00 - 16:30 UK time (UTC+01) - see https://www.timeanddate.com for other timezones.

We will have the following presentations:
- Ruth Jarman - Worlds in Flux: Semiconductor, who, as one half of artist duo Semiconductor, will give a talk introducing their practice and their approach to using scientific data of the natural world as a medium.
- Dr Peter Sinclair - Locustream Open Microphones - Acoustic commons : a shared resource to renew listening, who will talk about the Locustream Open Microphones project dedicated to capturing local soundscapes and transmitting them live via the Internet.

You can find more info and register for the free event on the following Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sensing-the-forest-seminar-semiconductor-and-peter-sinclair-tickets-734997275637

All are welcome!

Sensing the Forest is live!

 The project website of the AHRC-funded project “Sensing the Forest” is live at: https://sensingtheforest.github.io

  
We will document the different project activities in this space. Next month we will start a series of online talks by six experts in the field. Stay tuned!