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When trees communicate what does it sound like? In Conference of Trees, Pantha du Prince translates the cellular conversation of trees into an audio-visual composition. On 2 March, Christina Ertl-Shirley and Felicity Mangan with their project Plants & Animalia, explore the sound phenomena produced by plants and animals.

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Mississippi. An Anthropocene River: Kickoff

How can planetary Anthropocenic transformations become graspable at a local scale? At the inaugural symposium in Minneapolis, key collaborators of the project gathered to introduce their specific regional approaches to this question by presenting the methodologies of their model projects. (Photo: USGS/NASA/Landsat 7)

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Technosphere Magazine: Machine Listening

The advent of synthetic listening might profoundly disturb the sense we have of our own aurality. The new issue of Technosphere Magazine focuses on computer audition tools which are modeled after human listening. If machines listen differently, how might we characterize such listenings? What might computer audition tell us about our own human forms of listening?

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The Language of Broken Glass

Can artificial intelligence be taught to recognize the sound of glass breaking? During the Opening Days of The New Alphabet, Hito Steyerl presented her new film The City of Broken Windows and addressed the use of AI in security systems.

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100 Years of Now Journal

The journal explores ideas generated during the course of the transdisciplinary project 100 Years of Now (2015-2019) in greater depth. Artists, scientists, and observers will throw new light on global political conflicts, supposed side scenes of history, and on the planetary entanglement of technological, human, and natural forces.

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bauhaus imaginista Journal

The online scientific publishing platform bauhaus-imaginista.org is home to details of the research processes and results of bauhaus imaginista.

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Technosphere Magazine

Research pieces, essays, artistic and experimental approaches to the technosphere: Which are its organizing principles? How is it inscribed into individuals and how does it shape entire societies?

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Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935 –1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

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Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

As a collaborative experiment the Anthropocene Curriculum explores the novel epistemic, aesthetic, and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Its online platform Anthropocene-Curriculum.org gives voice to an evolving worldwide network of researchers, artists, and local communities, while inviting engagement and participation in transforming our common knowledge baselines.

Blog

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What musical patterns have been preserved in the sounds of the African Diaspora, thus defying time and forced migration? Satch Hoyt follows their traces in today’s metropolises Luanda, Kinshasa, Salvador de Bahia, and Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.

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Pantha du Prince

bauhaus imaginista

Find the File

The New Alphabet

Technosphärenklänge #7: Pantha du Prince

Technosphärenklänge #7: Pantha du Prince

Lage der Nation Live

Opening: bauhaus imaginista

bauhaus imaginista

Exhibition Visits with Art Mediators

Technosphärenklänge

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River: Kickoff

Technosphere Magazine: Machine Listening

The Language of Broken Glass

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For further reading

100 Years of Now Journal

bauhaus imaginista Journal

Technosphere Magazine

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

Afro-Sonic Mapping

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