Programme

EXHIBITION
Foyer +4
19-28 OCTOBER
“Urban Sound Art / Sound Art in Public Spaces”
Free Entrance | 10:00-22:00

MAIN PROGRAMME

Upper Stage | All events were held in English with no translation.

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER

18:15 | Introduction

18:30 | Film Screening: “Soundscapes Landscapes’ Soundwalks – Rhizomes I,II,III”
A Documentary by Medea Electronique, watch the trailer on vimeo.

19:00 | Talks
Christos Carras: “Mediated Participation”
Rani Al Rajji: “Phonic Heimat”
Gascia Ouzounian: “Unplanning the Acoustic City: Sound Art in Post-War Beirut”

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER

10:00-12:00 | Talks
Carsten Seiffarth: “bonn hoeren” | Sound Installation Art in Bonn since 2010
Bill Psarras: “Metaphors for walking; “Tuning” space, senses and imagination”
Nikos Bubaris: “Audio Walks and Intermediality”
Teresa Connors: “Creative coding in an Ecological Performativity Practice”

12:30-14:00 | Talks
Angeliki Poulou: “Soundwalking and Archiving: Convergences and Tensions”
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: “Mise-en-sonore: Improvising with Space in Sound Art”
Carsten Stabenow: “What’s New in the City?: Improvisation as Curatorial Practice”

21:00-22:00 | Lecture-performance
Úna Monaghan: “Spaces to Improvise in Irish Traditional Music”

22:15-22:30 | Performance
Teresa Connors & Ellen Waterman: “Aspects of Trees”

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER

16:30-18:00 | Talks
Rebecca Caines: “Improvised Remembering: Noise into Signal—a site-specific project in Wuhan, China”
John Drever: “The Role of Improvisation in Auraldiverse Soundwalking”
Ellen Waterman: “Klang-Opus á la fin de crépescule: Improvising Place and Space in the Cape Spear Project”

18:15-19:15 | Talks
Ludger Brümmer: “The influence of timbre on spatial perception”
George Samantas: “Site-specificity and the Cloud: improvising with the spatial, temporal, and digital perceptions of space”

19:30-20:00 | Round table / Wrap-up session

PARALLEL PROGRAMME (soundwalks & talks)

“Rewriting the Text of the City”

All events were held in English with no translation
Participation was free; soundwalks required a reservation via e-mail.

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER

16:00-17:00 | “Astrorythmes”: A performative soundwalk by hd.kepler
Meeting point: Plato café (at 15:45), 61 Tripoleos st., Akadimia Platonos (opposite Plato’s Academy Park)

18:00-19:30 | Creative teams meeting
Plato Café | 61 Tripoleos st., Akadimia Platonos
Participants: Thodoris Dimitrakos / Jannis Kozatsas / Costas Passas (Krisi Scientific Review), hd. kepler art & research platform (Eleni Riga – Florent Frizet), Medea Electronique art collective (Manolis Manousakis-Tim Ward)

SUNDAY 21 OCTOBER

9:30-10:30 | “Debating Athens”: A philosophical soundwalk by Thodoris Dimitrakos / Jannis Kozatsas / Costas Passas (Krisi Scientific Review)
Meeting Point: Association of Greek Archaeologists (at 9:15), 134 Ermou st.

11:00-12:00 | “Soundscapes Landscapes / Rhizome II / Gazi/Kerameikos/Metaxourgeio”: A soundwalk by Medea Electronique
Meeting Point: E.Δ.Ω. Creative Workshops Space, 18 Profitou Daniil st., Kerameikos, Athens

12.00-13.30 App designers round table
E.Δ.Ω. Creative Workshops Space, 18 Profitou Daniil st., Kerameikos, Athens
Participants: MU Collective (FR), MediaLab Prado (ES)
Moderated by: Gascia Ouzounian

Download the Main Programme – keynote speakers’ abstracts and bios. [PDF]