Zines
projects & process
Monday, October 21, 2–4pm
Taft Research Center
Dream Machines
Listen with critical attunement to atmospheric phenomena and terms of perceptibility; think with and beyond techno-rational utility and the social worlds it makes and unmakes through forms and technologies of listening & recording. Deepen an arts-based approach to environmental justice.
No experience or expertise is necessary. Please email Dr. Megan Gette, gettemj@ucmail.uc.edu, if interested.
dream machine 1: seismicity
Monday, November 4, 2–4pm
Taft Research Center
Listen with and consider the history of geophones in making and unmaking worlds. Optional readings: selections from Macarena Gómez-Barris’s The Extractive Zone and Adam Bobbette’s Sound of Magma. The session will center a score/prompt for development of individual practices and research.
dream machine 2: electromagnetism
with Celeste Oram
Monday, November 18, 1–3pm
Taft Research Center with a virtual/hybrid option
Registration required: https://bit.ly/4hutxxI
Use and make EMF (electromagnetic frequency) microphones to listen with the hidden sounds of infrastructure and technological devices, considering the electromagnetic spectrum as resource and space of law. Optional listening: Determi-Nation podcast, by Darrah Blackwater, incl. Spectrum Sovereignty Explained with Mariel Triggs and Māori Spectrum Rights with Antony Royal. The session will center a “collective worldmaking” score/prompt from Celeste using participatory radio.