Category: Conferences

Conferences, Dissemination, INTIMAL App©

INTIMAL App© in Soundings: Assemblies of Listenings & Voices across the Souths, Berlin Aug 21-25

Attendees to SOUNDINGS. Berlin ADK. Photo by Dr. Amit D. Patel

It was a real nurturing experience to be part of this important gathering SOUNDINGS: Assemblies of Listenings and Voices Across the Souths at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. I offered a workshop with the INTIMAL App© and I am full of gratitude to the organisers for the invitation and encouragement to speak and share my work and renewed reflections.

Poster of SOUNDINGS. ADK, Berlin.

Soundings was a seminal 5-day gathering of musicians, artists, performers, and sound scholars from outside of the European canon. Soundings addressed “the dearth of critical engagement with artists and thinkers working on the margins of the Eurocentric discourses, to counteract a scant presence of the Global South, diasporic, and indigenous music and sound works, and scholarship in the contemporary fields of music and sound arts”. In meaningful soundings and listenings with diverse formats, I was invited to listen to the plants, as well as the research and art of my artists-researchers-thinkers colleagues from the Global South, who have engaged also in migratory journeys to make their voices, thoughts and artistic and intellectual development heard and evolve in countries from the Global North. A deep and critical revision of how we voice and listen was framed with silences for reflection, on what unites us, also on our diversities, and how we find ways for being recognised on equal levels for our long-distance journey to be supported across the globe.

Academic-Dissemination, Conferences, Dissemination, Environmental, INTIMAL App©

CTM Festival Berlin 25.05.22

Listening in Berlin. By Ximena Alarcón

I am very grateful for the invitation to speak at the CTM Festival 2022, at the panel Contact with the more-than-human-world. The panel brought together reflections from Jono Gilmurray, Susan Schuppli and Faiza Ahmad Khan, AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd. Curated by Anita Jóri, the panel explored how sound artists have engaged politically, socially and aesthetically with our environments, in the context of climate crisis. How our work might respond to the urgent questions of listening, and the negotiation of our position in relation to other more-than-human entities. I offered a talk on “Sonic Migrations: resonances that hold us as we walk through telematic rituals for agency.”

This has been a great opportunity to bring together an overview of my 19 years of work listening to migrations and nourishing the principles of the INTIMAL system and the INTIMAL App©. Thanks to Anita Jóri, the speakers and the wonderful organisation of the Festival!

Collaborations, Conferences, Live Improvisations

Paper in NowNet Arts Conference 4-7 Nov, 2021

NowNet Arts Conference 2021. Transformation in the Distance

I presented at the NowNet Arts Conference, Transformation of Distance, which interrogated distance understood “as geographic distance and broader concepts such as physical, emotional, societal, environmental, and dimensional distance”. I presented the artistic process and the results of people experiencing the INTIMAL App in Bath, in the form of a paper called “Sonic Proximity: locating oneself and the others within “a migratory journey”. I also had the joy to improvise with NowNet Ensemble, and to improvise music telematically with the new Raspberry Pi Ensemble, together with Gloria Damijan and Jane Wang!

NowNet Arts proposes:

“What is distance? How is distance transformed in the field? How can the field address distance through diversity, equity, access, and inclusion? How can the geographic nature of network arts transform environmental relationships? Is there distance in loss on individual and collective scales that can be transformed? How can we develop artistic and technological components of these transformations in our field?”

Academic-Dissemination, Collaborations, Conferences

NIME LATAM, Octubre 27, 2021

NIME LATAM. Diseño Patricia Cadavid

Hoy tuve el placer de presentar brevemente el proyecto INTIMAL, y participar con 28 creadorxs y sentipensantes de todas las esquinas en Latinoamérica, en el primer taller NIME Latinoamérica, en el marco del 18th Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music. NIME significa New Interfaces for Musical Expression, y queremos entendernos desde el contexto Latinoamericano:

“La Red de Investigación NIME Latinoamérica tiene como objetivo proveer un espacio para compartir recursos, tutoriales y repositorios para miembros de la comunidad, así como para visibilizar su trabajo. También buscamos organizar encuentros y eventos que serán comunicados en esta página y mediante nuestras plataformas de comunicación (por favor, contactar a los administradores para acceder a estas plataformas).Con esta red pretendemos dar los primeros pasos hacia la creación de una comunidad NIME latinoamericana así como también consolidar el futuro de esta comunidad al interior y más allá de NIME, abriéndonos a otras comunidades de América Latina e inspirando cambios políticos para apoyar el desarrollo de nuestras comunidades locales.” Interesades en hacer parte de esta Red nos pueden contactar a lxs organizadorxs. Es una experiencia muy enriquecedora, única y necesaria para nuestros retos Glocales!

Conferences

SINTESIS – Bogotá, Octubre 21, 2021

Tuve el placer y fortuna de ofrecer una charla sobre Performance Telemático Sonoro el pasado 21 de Octubre en el Bootcamp SINTESIS en Bogotá. Parte de IoT (Internet of Things o Internet de las Cosas), tuve la oportunidad de tener una conversación con preguntas muy interesantes que surgen de la interdisciplinariedad: Artistas, Diseñadorxs, Ingenierxs, Músicxs, interesades en procesos creativos con tecnología y sonido. Agradezco a Eduardo Montilla y lxs organizadores por esta interesante invitación! Nuevas redes re-pensándonos los procesos tecnológicos y aprendiendo interdisciplinariamente.

Conferences, Dissemination

NowNet conference Nov 7-10, 2019

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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.

I presented the paper “Sensing Place and Presence in an INTIMAL Long-Distance Improvisation.”  on behalf of the co-authors Paul Boddie, Cagri Erdem, Eigil Aandahl, Elias Sukken Andersen, Eirik Dahl, Mari Lesteberg, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius. The paper has been recently published in the new Journal of Network Music and Arts, JONMA. https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/vol1/iss1/3

Thanks to the organisers Sarah Weaver, Margaret Schedel and Chris Chafe! Looking forward to the next NowNet Arts conference on 2020.

Academic-Dissemination, Conferences, Dissemination, Publications

ACERVO: publication and round table

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English (Spanish below)

I am proud to announce that our paper titled:  “From collecting an archive to artistic practice in the INTIMAL project: lessons learned from listening to a Colombian migrant women’s oral history archive.” has been published in the Revista Acervo (Revista do Arquivo Nacional), which is the Journal from the National Archive from Brazil. The publication was a joint effort with my co-authors Lucia Nikolaia Bohórquez López (RITMO Centre, UiO), Helga Flamtermesky (Diaspora Women) and Oliver Lartillot (RITMO Centre, UiO). This edition of Acervo was dedicated to “Diálogos Desviantes do Archivo” Das experimentações artísticas à educação das sensibilidades, and had as Guest Editors Adriana Carvalho Koyama and Ana Pato. They launched the edition at the IV Simpósio Arquivos & Educação, on September 17, 2019,  at the Arquivo Nacional de Brasil. I participated in a round table at the event (online presence), together with Andrea França – PUC RJ, Luiz Claudio da Costa – UERJ, Adriana Carvalho Koyama – Unicamp, and Ana Pato – Grupo de Pesquisa Estéticas da memória no século 21: arte, espaço público e imagens do pós-monumental.

In a very inspiring session, with examples of artists working with archives and memory, in performance, photography, sculpture and film (amongst other practices) we reflected on the contemporary need of deviating from positivist and historicist practices, and contribute to the reconstruction of history articulated to people’s memories. From the session I take with me as a highlight the importance of the archives in the elaboration of social traumas. Thanks to all the participants for this nourishing session!

Español

Me enorgullece anunciar que nuestro artículo titulado: “De la creación de un archivo a la práctica artística en el proyecto INTIMAL: lecciones aprendidas de la escucha de un archivo de historia oral de mujeres migrantes colombianas.”, ha sido publicado en la Revista Acervo (Revista do Arquivo Nacional), que es la Revista del Archivo Nacional de Brasil. La publicación fue un esfuerzo conjunto con mis co-autores Lucia Nikolaia Bohórquez López (Centro RITMO, UiO), Helga Flamtermesky (Mujer Diáspora) y Oliver Lartillot (Centro RITMO, UiO). Esta edición de Acervo se dedicó a “Diálogos Desviantes do Archivo” Das experimentações artísticas à educação das sensibilidades, y tuvo como editoras invitadas a Adriana Carvalho Koyama y Ana Pato. La edición impresa se lanzó en el IV Simpósio Arquivos & Educação, el 17 de septiembre de 2019, en el Archivo Nacional de Brasil. Allí participé en una mesa redonda (presencia en línea), junto con Andrea França – PUC RJ, Luiz Claudio da Costa – UERJ, Adriana Carvalho Koyama – Unicamp y Ana Pato – Grupo de Pesquisa Estéticas de memoria no século 21: arte , espaço público e imágenes do pós-monumental.

En una sesión muy inspiradora, con ejemplos de artistas que trabajan con archivos y memoria, en performance, fotografía, escultura y cine (entre otras prácticas) reflexionamos sobre la necesidad contemporánea de desviarse de las prácticas positivistas e historicistas, y contribuir a la reconstrucción de la historia articulada a nuestras memorias. De la sesión resalto la importancia de los archivos en la elaboración de traumas sociales. ¡Gracias a todos los participantes por esta sesión!

 

Academic-Dissemination, Conferences

RE:Sound Conference, Aug 19-24, 2019

 

Screen Shot 2019-09-19 at 20.10.03.pngIt was a very nourishing experience for me, being part of the Track 3 session: “Sound and Voice: Art, Practices and Politics” at the RE:Sound conference, Sound, Media and Art,  which took place in Aalborg, Denmark, from August 19th to August 24th,  In the panel shared with Luz Maria Sánchez – Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Lerma (Chair of the Track), and Luis Carlos Sotelo – Concordia University, we shared different approaches to listen in contexts of violence and migration, and with a common ground on listening to women’s accounts and bringing these voices in art and performative forms. In our overlapping research-practices we explore contexts of Colombia and Mexico, and look paths for different traumatic stories to be heard by others, within the axis of political voice and reaching resonances in the broader population, using the voice as a “trigger” of specific healing processes as individuals and as a society.

My presentation, “Ellos no están entendiendo nada” [“They are not understanding anything”]: Listening to Embodied Memories of Colombian Migrant Women, reflecting on conflict and migration, focused on complex embodied narratives that emerge in the INTIMAL Long Distance Improvisation (Telematic Sonic Performance), and was co-authored with Alexander Refsum Jensenius.

The panel was moderated by Iris Garrelfs, Goldsmiths University of London.

Thanks to our co-panelists!!!

Academic-Dissemination, Awards, Conferences

Pamela Z Award: Honorary Mention

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I feel honoured for being awarded with an honorary mention of the NIME 2019’s Pamela Z Award for Innovation, for the paper “INTIMAL: Walking to Find Place, Breathing to Feel Presence” who I wrote together with my co-authors Victor Evaristo González Sánchez and Çagri Erdem, and my artistic work involving migration issues, specifically for helping to “connect women’s voices who are unheard and have suffered from migrating to other countries involuntarily”. In this logic, I thank collaborators such as Mujer Diáspora (Diaspora Women), and her coordinator Helga Flamtermesky, who have collected and provided me with such voices, which have been heard by the INTIMAL community of Colombian Women, as a catharsis, an exercise of collective memory. Also to the INTIMAL community, who has followed me in the work to listen to these voices, and to their own migrations, and to my research assistant Lucia Nikolaia Lopez Bojorquez who supported me in the intense emotional work of annotating technically these voices to be heard by others, in the INTIMAL project.

I received a gift kindly provided by Margaret Schedel: a copy of the book “Artful Design” by Ge Wang.

Pamela Z award in the NIME Conference, was created last year and recognizes a person who is doing significant work that improves the discussion about diversity in NIME either through their research connecting people or through actions such as organisation and awareness.

This year the awardee of the Pamela Z main award is precisely the composer Margaret Schedel, who has contributed to the inclusion of diversity and NIMEs (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), and her co-authored paper “Women’s Labor: Creating NIMEs from Domestic Tools”.

Thanks to the jury of Pamela Z Award 2019:

Isabel Nogueira, Astrid Bin, Anna Weisling, Ana Maria Romano Gomez, Anna Xambó