Zines & Dream Machines

Rethink folds and forms. Listen with critical attunement to atmospheric phenomena and terms of perceptibility and deepen arts-based approaches to environmental justice.

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Zines

 

projects & process
Monday, October 21, 2–4pm  
Taft Research Center  

Read and make zines inspired by DIY Methods 2024, the "mostly screen-free, zine-full, remote-participation conference on experimental methods for research and research exchange" organized by Sarah Rayner and Anne Pasek of Low-Carbon Research Methods. Zine makers from the conference will join via Zoom to discuss their projects and processes. 

Co-sponsored by Taft–DAAP Visual Cultures Research Group

 

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.