Irene Moon and the Begonia Society live via https://www.twitch.tv/begonia_society
Join Irene Moon for a streaming performance at the @iDigBio 4th annual Digitial Data Conference Monday, June 1, 6:20 - 6:50 EDT.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
Audiosphere Exhibition at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Audiosphere
organized and exhibited at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, curated by Francisco López
Sound Experimentation 1980-2020
Although the opening is delayed, I am very excited to be invited to participate in an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía curated by Francisco López. The exhibition includes works by 810 artists from 80 countries of the six continents and is focused on "highlighting the need and relevance of a social history –not again a mere chronology– of experimental audio."
Audiosphere. By way of a selection of hundreds of sound works, Audiosphere. Sound Experimentation 1980-2020 looks to cover an historical and cultural void in terms of the recognition, exhibition and analysis of a key part of the recent changes that have taken place in the artistic conception of sound.
By way of a selection of hundreds of sound works, Audiosphere. Sound Experimentation 1980-2020 looks to cover an historical and cultural void in terms of the recognition, exhibition and analysis of a key part of the recent changes that have taken place in the artistic conception of sound creation.
Conceived from a social perspective, and with the aim of revealing and providing context to reflect upon and discuss the techno-cultural changes that have occurred since the 1980s, the exhibition will present the work of a broad number of experimental sound artists, hailing from all over the world, the majority unknown to the contemporary art spectator.
The show will revolve around seven sections, each one addressing different social, technological, historical and cultural processes: genealogies, networks, mega accessibility, cyborgisation, aesthetogenesis, recombination and rights. Although such processes have been generated collectively and today are widespread, they have not been sufficiently identified, acknowledged or analysed artistically.
Audiosphere thus seeks to constitute a non-conceptual, large-scale contemporary art exhibition with no images or objects, underpinned solely by sound works and an exhibition design that facilitates experiential, profound and prolonged listening.
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Monday, August 19, 2019
Media Arts and Entomology
Notes from Nature article about Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon was published in promotion of the upcoming WeDigBio museum curation events. This is a reposting of that original article.
Irene Moon and NFN
The University of California Santa Barbara Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration Director has an alter ego. She goes by the name Irene Moon, and she came into being decades ago when Katja Seltmann first started creating science-inspired performance art. Some of the performances are artier, but many of them are specifically created to Perform Science!
This intersection of science and art opens up interesting ways to communicate about natural history collections and science in popular culture. Seltmann and her partner, Yon Visell, have a weekly radio show called “Unknown Territories”, a hour-long cultural arts program on the UCSB campus radio station, KCSB 91.9fm. The show airs on Monday 9-1000am PT and streams online at kcsb.org.
Several of her recordings of science inspired radio shows are available online. You can listen to interviews with researchers about various topics including rust, evolution and field recordings through the Let’s Talk Scienceseries. Recent shows are archived through the Internet Archive and found on the Unknown Territories website. Just like with the collection data she puts online, all of these recordings are all released under Creative Common licenses for reuse, or put into the Public Domain.
Natural history collections work has inspired much of the music, and Irene has several pieces for radio that are specifically about natural history collections. “Curator Bill” is a fictional character that appears throughout the radio pieces, and the audio introduction to Bill.
So next time you need perk up a boring lecture for that intro bio class, think about singing songs in a gold jacket, or create music about the topic. She has performed absurd Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon musical lectures where collections are highlighted as the character of one of her personal heroes, EO Wilson. “Most of the lectures are done in late night musical venues, rock clubs, and raves. The information is factual, inspired by research, and people do learn when they least expect it.”
Find out more at begoniasociety.org
Check out some of her performances at the links below.
LOVID Visiting Artists Residency
Lovid is the art duo of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. LoVid explores translation and decay of natural, electrical, and biological systems. Since 2001, LoVid produces works that combine hand-made and machine produced craft, DIY electro-engineering, textile, video, and noise. www.lovid.orgLoVid Visiting Artists Residency with UCSB RE Touch Lab, Media Arts and Technology and the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, 2019.
At the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration LoVid researched ecological processes and restorative practices. Images and data collected from their time here are resulting in many outcomes, including textile works depicting images of restored wetlands.
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Unknown Territories radio now on Monday from 9-10am
#UnknownTerritoriesRadio is on every Monday from 9-10am Pacific Time for discussion about current and new science with experimental music. Found only on @KCSB -FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara and at https://t.co/7TGaQ2Rmha pic.twitter.com/ifuwPitZsf
— Irene Moon (@irene_moon) November 26, 2018
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Unknown Territories has a new time. Wednesdays 7-8pm on KCSB in Santa Barbara
Bringing the journal club to your airwaves: Unknown Territories
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