Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon performing in Los Angeles for Touch 40

Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon will perform Lovely Moth as part of the Touch 40 (https://touch40.net) festival. Touch, the UK-based imprint and publisher, will celebrate forty years of activity (1982-2022). Touch has grown organically and independently and continues to make ideas-based decisions in a world of changing technology, tastes, and digital freedoms. Irene has appeared on Touch Radio performing "My Queen and I," a recorded lecture about bees. She also performed in a fantastic Touch event at Rymar Auditorium that included the Bee Symphony where humans sang with bees. The Bee Symphony, consisting of recordings of bees by Mike Harding (Touch) and Chris Watson (‘The Life of Birds’, ‘The Life of Mammals’, ‘Life in the Undergrowth’ and ‘Life in Cold Blood’) and a vocal score by Marcus Davidson (Spire) will be performed live by Chris Watson and five singers from the University of York, conducted by Marcus Davidson. The Symphony was originally commissioned as part of the Festival and performed in Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

 

A 5-Minute Hour

Irene Moon and the Begonia Society are part of the 2nd episode of GX Jupitter-Larsen's new online variety show, A 5-Minute Hour. We include a 1-minute Microtheter on various insects and other invertebrates. These are coming once a week from his studio and Irene Moon will be part of the next four (and hopefully more)!

The Macroptheter is small theater, generally filmed under a microscope and the actors are those that are more difficult to see.

Irene Moon performs at The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara July 23, 2021

Irene Moon is performing during the closing reception for an exhibition by Shana Moulton at The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Shana Moulton will be performing The Invisible Seventh is the Mystic Column and Irene will present Lovely Moth, a new lecture about moths and your best behavior.

Both performances will also be broadcast via INSTAGRAM LIVE @mcasantabarbara starting at 5:15 pm. Starting at 6:00 will be a public closing reception. Please come join us at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara patio.

Irene Moon performed live for the 4th Annual Digital Data Conference June 1-3, 2020

Irene Moon performed live for the 4th Annual Digital Data Conference June 1-3, 2020. The conference was sponsored by Indiana University and Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio). Since the entire conference was held online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Irene Moon performed virtually using twitch and Zoom. You can see a copy of the performance, You the Charmer, at https://ucsb.box.com/s/txbd5b0ies6gzgeloki48nou26ia8nlx

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.

My Queen and I

Sneaky Little Sneak

EO Wilson Song

Meditation on Odonata

Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, 2016

Irene Moon is performing at this years San Francisco Electronic Music Festival September 8-11, 2016. Other artists include: Arcane Device, Alessandro Bosetti, clipping.,Thea Farhadian, IMA, Madalyn Merkey, Gen Ken Montgomery, Irene Moon, Moor Mother, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Tujurikkuja.

Come one, come all. Gen Ken might laminate something, I will perform insect noise, and keep an eye out for other dates in northern California before or after the event.

ICK! CREATURES THAT MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL AND THE LOVELY REASONS WHY

ICK!
Frankford Hall * 1210 Frankford Ave * Philadelphia, PA 19125
Monday, April 28 6:30pm – 7:30pm

Description:
A showy reintroduction to some of the natural world’s icky organisms, by the researchers who cherish them. Discover how the human response to be repulsed is all quite explainable.



Itchy Itchy Scratch: Insects That Make Your Skin Crawl and the Lovely Reasons Why (Irene Moon & Yon Visell)
Does the sound of bees buzzing make your skin crawl? Why does the site of a cockroach give us the creepy-crawlies? Sing and dance your way through this surrealist entomological performance and discover how the sensation of touch affects human perception.

Pond Scum and You (Richard McCourt)
What is that slimy green stuff on the wall of your house?  What's in that green goo in your swimming pool?  They are algae, or a some would call them, pond scum, and this multimedia presentation will highlight the world of these strange tiny plants, which despite their not so nice reputation turn out to be the most important plants on earth.

Partners: Frankford Hall, Drexel University, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, American Museum of Natural History


Your hosts:

Katja Seltmann (American Museum of Natural History)
Yon Visell (Drexel University)
Richard McCourt (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia)

Irene Moon at Nerd Nite Global Fest

Nerd Nite Global Fest

Imagine the editor-in-chief of Popular Science chugging beers on stage with the producers of Radiolab while answering your questions about the universe.  Imagine all the greatest Nerd Nite presenters from across the globe all in one location.  Imagine meeting fellow curious folk like yourself while drinking FREE BEER FOR 3 DAYS.  Imagine no more!

Since we here at Nerd Nite have done such an extraordinarily poor job of sharing content across our 50+ cities worldwide, we’re finally doing something about it.  Yes, we proudly bring you our first annual Nerd Nite Global Festival 2013!  Buy tickets now!

Join us August 16-18, 2013 at the Brooklyn Lyceum (Brooklyn, NY, USA) for our first annual fest featuring 25 of our greatest hits presentations from across the globe, games, trivia, mingling with fellow nerds, lots of free beer and cheap wine (you must be 21+, no exceptions).  Seriously, yes, that is a LOT of content and fun – oh, and all of this amazingness is a mere $100 (day-passes are available too). So be prepared to be dazzled, tantalized, and exhilarated upon hearing from the best presentations ever from the last few years.

Nerd Nite Global Festival 2013

Brooklyn Lyceum
227 Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, USA
August 16-18, 2013
Subway: R train to Union Street
$100 (there’s a $8.9o service fee) for the full fest
Day Passes: $40 Friday-only, $65 Saturday-only, $50 Sunday-only

Agenda
Friday August 16, 2013  
8-10pm Opening Reception with music by the Main Squeeze Orchestra

Saturday August 17, 2013  
10am-11:30am: Walking tours led by Levy’s Unique NY
12pm: The Godfather of Nerd Nite, Dr. Chris Balakrishnan’s opening presentation (Greenville, NC)
12:45pm: Sexy Serpent Smells: A Sense of Snake Scents by Rocky Parker (Philadelphia)
1:30pm: Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean (Washington DC)
2:15pm: The Scholarly Gym Rat by Lianne McTavish (Edmonton)
3pm: Welcome to the Nanoworld! by Dr. Kristin Cederquist (Ann Arbor)
3:45pm: Sex and the Sick Bee by Ben Taylor (Madison, WI)
4:30pm: The Limits of the Human Body by Jake Ward (San Francisco)
5-7:30pm: Break (go eat dinner somewhere in the neighborhood)
7:30-10pm Drunk Science featuring the producers of Radiolab and Jake Ward, editor-in-chief ofPopular Science and judging of the Dry T-Shirt contest
A games room will run concurrently to the presentations all day

Sunday August 18, 2013 
10am: Final Sunday opening comments
10:15am: Itchy Itchy Scratch: Insects That Make your Skin Crawl and all the Lovely Reasons Why by Irene Moon and Yon Visell (Gainesville) <- notice..10:15 AM SHOW
11am: “…still little distance small!“ – Our Journey in Search of the Liberian Chimpanzee by Jessi Junker (Liberia)
11:45am: The Art of the Star Wars Retcon by Dustin Diehl (Phoenix)
12:30pm: Triple E: The Story of a Highly Pathogenic, Often Fatal, Mosquito-Borne Virus in the United States by Asim Ahmed (Boston)
1:15pm: Alien Minds by Lauren Shorser (Toronto)
2pm: Leaving Earth by Dr. Andrew Rader (Kitchener, ON)
2:45pm: Planet Construction, Caught in the Act by Dr. Joel Green (Austin)
3:30pm: Godzilla: History, Biology and Behavior of Hyper-Evolved Theropod Kaiju by Shyaporn  Theerakulstit (NYC)
4pm: Closing remarks
A games room will run concurrently to the presentations all day

For more information on Hotel/Lodging, Presentation Descriptions & Presenter Bios please visit Nerd Nite Fest official Webpage.

MEET ME AT THE NEXT DORKBOT NYC

MEET ME AT THE NEXT DORKBOT NYC (this is a reposting of the Dorkbot website) +++++++
where: Location One (Greene between Canal & Grand)
when: Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012, 7-9pm
$$$: $$$FREE$$$ (donations to Location One appreciated!)
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The next dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 at Location One in SoHo.
The meeting is free and open to the public.
PLEASE BRING SNACKS AND DRINKS TO SHARE!!! WE ARE HUNGRY!!!
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Featuring the phase space trajectories of:

	Nate Hill: ArtFagCity.Me From 2007-present, I have been doing art (performance and web) in New York City -- described as confrontational, funny, antagonistic, silly, helpful, or just plain disgusting. It's important to note that most people experienced the performances through perception forming articles by bloggers, since the street performances were often unannounced or spectacles that were not well attended by people meaning to be there. Over the last five years, I've received much fair-minded online coverage and feedback and am fortunate. However, it's the occasional discounting blogger's tone, or the harsh commenter accusations that I have chosen to respond to in this pissy, nerdy, controlling, and obsessive project that is ArtFagCity.Me. In this talk, I will discuss how this art blog "hack" was created, its motivations, and the creative/technical steps and discoveries made along the way. http://artfagcity.me
	Phosphene Variations: Jason Akira Somma Somma's work is a new revelation in the long symbiotic dynamic between art and technology. His analog video feedback manipulations explore a radical new conception of the relationship between performance and visual art. The fractalized, psychedelic imagery of Somma's videos are recorded live and in real time. In other words, Somma's work explores a new field of Generative Art, where the qualities of form, style, and aesthetic of a live event directly influence, the form, style, and aesthetic of an independent piece of visual content: a video recording. Though performance, and dance has often been the inspiration, or subject of works of visual art, Somma's new techniques synthesize an exciting new form of artistic expression that transcends and antiquates traditional understandings of performance and visual art. Somma's most recent work probes the relationship of art and audience. Somma's interactive holograms, integrating projections of dancers and performance artists on water vapor with three dimensional body mapping software, creates a new kinesthetic dialogue between audience and art work, encouraging the viewer to explore their own movement's effect on a visual experience focused on the unique body language lexicon of some of the world's foremost performers, dancers, and directors. https://vimeo.com/30933352 https://vimeo.com/jasonsomma
	Irene Moon: Scientifically Speaking Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon was developed around 1997 to elevate entomology as a rock genre. Under the name I have proceeded in creating multimedia environments, organizations, happenings, and music about or inspired by insects. Scientifically Speaking has the dual focus to advance appreciation of art in the halls of science; as a means of connecting the public to entomology and increasing awareness of the art and creativity intrinsic to the scientific process. My work to introduce factual topics comes with the creative fascination and detail that could only come out of the intimate relationship a scientist has with his or her subject as I am simultaneously a working entomologist presently employed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (as Katja Seltmann) in the field of biodiversity informatics. http://www.begoniasociety.org http://tcn.amnh.org

Entertaining Science at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Sunday, Mar 11 - 6:00PM at the Cornelia Street Cafe
ENTERTAINING SCIENCE: BEAUTY AND THE BEASTIES


Irene Moon and David Rothenberg sing about EO Wilson from Irene Moon on Vimeo.



Irene Moon performs My Queen and I from Irene Moon on Vimeo.


Roald Hoffmann, Dave Soldier, hosts
David Rothenberg, ; Irene Moon,

David Rothenberg, author of WHY BIRDS SING and SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (“ecstatic” says the Wall St Journal, “triumphant” says the Guardian) will tell us why evolution is as much about survival of the beautiful as it is of the fittest; why Charles Darwin said the peacock’s tail made him sick. Showing us bowerbird sculptures and playing animal sounds from whales to cicadas, he explains why beauty is a necessary part of nature.

Which leads most naturally to a surreal performance by Irene Moon, of the Museum of Natural History and the Begonia Society, “What is Beautiful?”. In vignettes, biological organisms act out short PowerPoint plays emerging out of the creative fascination with detail that could only come out of the intimate relationship a scientist has with his or her subject. Song and imagery will make the disgusting beautiful – believe us. Moon’s actors include internal parasites -- tapeworms, hookworms – and blood-sucking insects and their mouths -- mosquitos, fleas, and, since this is New York City, bedbugs.

$10 cover http://www.davidrothenberg.net , http://www.begoniasociety.org

Moon programs for Radio Boredcast!

Here is the list of Moon interviews for the A/V festival Radio Boredcast curated and organized by Vicki Bennett.
. There are a lot of good artists and musical material (24 hours worth!) on each of the days.

Day 1: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - The Ice Show - in conversation with Chris Watson

Day 5: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Human Evolution - Part 1- A conversation with Andrea Lucky, North Carolina State University

Day 13: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Human Evolution - Part 2- A conversation with Jiri Hulcr, North Carolina State University

Day 14: Rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Human Evolution - Part 2- A conversation with Jiri Hulcr, North Carolina State University

Day 20: Rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - The Ice Show - in conversation with Chris Watson

Day 21: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Sleep - A conversation with Dave Armitage, University of California, Berkley

Day 24: Rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Sleep - A conversation with Dave Armitage, University of California, Berkley

Day 26: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Rust - A conversation with John Selegue, University of Kentucky

Day 28: A rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - The Ice Show - in conversation with Chris Watson

Day 29: A rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Rust - A conversation with John Selegue, University of Kentucky

That is a lot of days folks!!

Scientific Discussions about Slowness for A/V Festival

Vicki Bennett is currently curating a 744 hour long radio station called Radio Boredcast, to run for the duration of AV Festival 12. As part of this broadcast I am conducting a series of factual interviews with scientists that deal with 'slow' issues such as: Rust, Evolution, and Sleep in Bats. You will be able to find the interviews here, through A/V festival, or later archived on WFMU.
"AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible is a Festival in slow motion. For the first time the Festival runs for a whole month from 1-31 March 2012. It's the most adventurous edition to date including over 15 major exhibitions, more than 50 film screenings and music events, weekend walks and an online radio broadcasting for 744 hours. The programme takes place at different speeds, paces and times of day across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, including an accelerated 24 Hour Launch. Programme highlights and our new website will be launched in November, sign up to our email list to keep in touch and follow us on facebook and twitter".

Another fantastic comp

I must say I have enjoyed fully every comp I have been fortunate enough to be included. So much of a good comp is about the person who selects the music, and puts the tracks in a pleasing order. This comp is no exception. It is just FANTASTIC!

Ordering details are on the Delirious Insomniac Blog

==Below is a reposting from the Delirious Insomniac Blog===
The Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show has haunted the airwaves of WLUW into the wee hours of dreary Monday Nights since 2008. Host Arvo Fingers uses his lengthy experience as a sleepless madman to wield surrealistic songs and sounds into a slithering swath for 4 hours a week. Presently, "Delirious Insomniac" is also syndicated on RadioKL.Hr in Croatia, with occasional interviews, virtual guest installations, ghost hosts, and radio art. On September 9th, 2011, Arvo Fingers and WLUW will be celebrating the 4th Anniversary of the Delirious Insomniac Freeform Radio Show as well as the release of the first volume of "Delirious Music For Delirious People", a compilation featuring Jarboe, Controlled Bleeding, Zola Jesus, Boyd Rice and Friends, Gary Wilson, BeNe GeSSeRiT, Big City Orchestra, Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet, and others.

At this time, less than 150 copies of the digipaks are available and not spoken for. The pro CDRs will stay in print unless someone happens to want to work with me on a double LP.

This is a repost from the touch label blog and site. I will be lecturing about bees during the event concerning their lives, habits and beauty of form.

My Queen and I:
An introduction to the bees and their closest relatives.

The Bee Symphony

The Rymer Auditorium, York 17th December 2010

October 21, 2010 » Permalink: The Bee Symphony | The Rymer Auditorium, York 17th December 2010

The Bee Symphony
Celebrating the bee in science and art
Friday 17 December 2010 at 7.30pm
Rymer Auditorium

The Bee Symphony, consisting of recordings of bees by Chris Watson ('The Life of Birds', 'The Life of Mammals', 'Life in the Undergrowth' and 'Life in Cold Blood'), Mike Harding (Touch) and a vocal score by Marcus Davidson (Spire) will be performed live by Chris Watson and five singers from the University of York, conducted by Marcus Davidson. The Symphony was originally commissioned as part of Pestival and performed in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Updated details of the full programme can be seen on the The Bee Symphony microsite
"The theme of the evening is really for people to become immersed in the sounds and rhythms of the insects." Chris Watson
In addition to The Bee Symphony the programme will feature other sound performances and talks by scientists on current research on bees and the current perils that they face, including:
Irene Moon - My Queen and I: An introduction to the bees and their closest relatives, also a special episode for TouchRadio

Buy tickets at www.yorkconcerts.co.uk
The Bee Symphony microsite
www.marcusdavidson.net
www.chriswatson.net

Irene Moon lectures for the North Carolina State University Department of Entomology

Entomology in Contemporary Art and Music
Monday, October 25, 2010

Irene Moon & Katja Seltmann

The public is welcome. All seminars are held at 11:15am in 3503 (Stevens Room) Thomas Hall unless noted otherwise .
Refreshments are served at 11:00am in the adjoining lobby.

An entertaining snippit

Some segments from a recent Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon lecture that was presented at Florida Atlantic university as part of the southXeast exhibition.




Many thanks to the Prelinger Archives for placing such lovely old video online for non-commercial use. They supplied the film of the ootheca hatching in slow motion. Was from a film called "goodby mr. roach" created by the Clemson College Extension Agency in 1959.