Speakers: Ariane Koek, Roger Malina, Christophe De Jaeger, Adriaan Eeckels

Speaker: Christopher Watkin Introduced by Adriaan Eeckels > Associate Professor Christopher Watkin is a philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His books include Difficult Atheism (2011) French Philosophy Today (2016), Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020) and Biblical Critical Theory (2022). He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2021-2025), working on the project “Rewriting the social contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism.” http://christopherwatkin.com

A brief statement from Elle Márjá-Eira in english and in her own mother tongue sámi, she has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. > Elle Márjá Eira is a Northern Sámi artist from Guovdageaidnu. She has written, directed and produced several short films, music videos and art installations. Work experience as an actress and composer at The Sámi National Theatre Beaivvaš. In collaboration with film composer Christoph Beck, she has made yoiks for The 12th Man (2017), Harald Zwart's fi lm about the resistance hero Jan Baalsrud. Elle Márjá collaborates musically with John Paul Jones and Lucy Parnell in a band project called Snoweye. Eira has been selected for the talent program UP 2.0 (2020-2022) by Norwegian Film Institute, Talent Norge and Norsk Tipping (it is a development program for filmmakers who aspire to make feature films and series). She is now involved in several fi lm and art projects. She is currently working on a 360 and VR film called "EALLU" which premieres at the Venice Biennale (Árran 360). She is working on the TV series POWER PLAY and on her first debut feature fi lm. In addition, she has an exhibition at Kochi Biennale 2022 in collaboration with Dáiddadállu. Official Website - https://www.ellemarja.com/

A brief statement from Jacquelyn Dale JD Whitman, one of the artist who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. > JD Whitman is an installation artist, educator, and ocean advocate conducting interdisciplinary research in the United States and Ireland. She investigates how art, scientific inquiry, technology, and public engagement can be combined to circumvent ecophobia, eco-anxiety, and climate anxiety in environmental education; facilitate effective science communication; provide nature-based, experiential learning opportunities; increase ecoliteracy rates; and drive collective action. Through multidisciplinary collaborations, she works to develop, implement, and evaluate creative methods for translating marine research to target audiences through community-specific, interactive installations. Currently, JD is the Director of the Global Youth Mentor (GYM) Program at Plastic Tides, a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring and catalyzing action towards a plastic-free future through adventure, education, and youth empowerment. She holds an MFA in Photography, MFA in Sculpture, and MA in Studio Arts (University of Iowa, 2019); a Post-Baccalaureate in Fine Art (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2014); and a BA (University of Chicago, 2013). Official Website - http://www.jdwhitman.com Instagram - https://instagram.com/plasticity_project

A brief statement from Roger Malina who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. > For years, UT Dallas has sought to fuse its long-held strengths in technology with the creativity of the arts and humanities. That philosophical blend is embodied by a new professor who is a champion for interdisciplinary academics. Dr. Roger F. Malina is a physicist, astronomer and executive editor of Leonardo publications at MIT Press. He serves in two of the University’s schools, as a distinguished professor of arts and technology in the School of Arts and Humanities, and as a professor of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Malina is a former director of the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (OAMP) in Marseille, and a member of its observational cosmology group, which performs investigations on the nature of dark matter and dark energy. He is also a member of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Study. Malina was also a member of the jury for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011, which awards a prize to those who create strategies with potential to “solve humanity's most pressing problems."

A brief statement from Manuel Rivera who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. > Manuel Rivera studied sociology, philosophy and Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the National University of Buenos Aires. After receiving his diploma (master degree) with a thesis on environmental awareness, he served as a project officer for the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), Berlin, and, temporarily, for the European Network of Environmental Advisory Councils (EEAC), Brussels, until 2007. The following years he worked as an actor at several German municipal theatres, before returning to sustainability issues by joining IASS in March 2011. In 2015, he obtained his PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Stuttgart, with a study about "Theatre as a Political Public Sphere.” At the IASS, he has been working on issues as different as urban studies, Latin American alternatives to development, the German energy transition, or the idea of Nature in the Anthropocene. He co-lead the Economics & Culture program from May 2015 to December 2016, inter alia conducting a study about attitudes toward economic growth in the German Bundestag. From 2017 to 2021, he lead the project "Narratives and Images of Sustainability," with the focus on a critical analysis of current academic and political sustainability discourses. Since 2021, with the establishment of the project "Art-Science Cooperations for Sustainability," his interest lies in artistic formats of communication and collaboration.

A brief statement from Jens Hauser who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. > Jens Hauser is a Paris and Copenhagen based media studies scholar and art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology. He’s currently a researcher at University of Copenhagen’s Medical Museion, a senior postdoc researcher at the Medical University Vienna, a distinguished affi liated faculty member at Michigan State University, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency program, an affi liated faculty member at Danube University Krems, a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Innsbruck, a guest professor at the Department of Arts and Sciences of Art at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a researcher affiliated with École Polytechnique Paris-Saclay. Hauser has been the chair of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts’ 2018 conference in Copenhagen. At the intersection of media studies, art history and epistemology, he has developed an aesthetic and epistemological theory of biomediality as part of his PhD at Ruhr University Bochum, and also holds a degree in science and technology journalism from Université François Rabelais in Tours. Picture by Vidas Daudaravicius

A brief conversation with Sandra Gargowitsch who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. Official Website - https://terre-reine.fr/

A brief statement from Christopher Watkin who has attended to Resonances IV SciArt Summer School at Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. > Associate Professor Christopher Watkin is a philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His books include Difficult Atheism (2011) French Philosophy Today (2016), Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020) and Biblical Critical Theory (2022). He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2021-2025), working on the project “Rewriting the social contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism.” Official Website - http://christopherwatkin.com

Usmaradio presents Crown Quartet 𝐀 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 Sound Art in Four Countries Resonances IV - NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract Broadcasted live on: ➥ usmaradio.org and a radio network across Europe: ➥ Radio Raheem (Milano) ➥ Neu Radio (Bologna) ➥ Orange 94.0 (Vienna) ➥ Fango Radio (Firenze) ➥ Kanal 103 (Skopje) 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐭 Live from: Croatia: Zahra Mani - double bass, bass & electric guitars, field recordings, live electronics Italy: Roberto Paci Dalò - clarinet, bass clarinet, voice, live electronics Hungary: Tibor Szemző - voice, bass flute, flute Austria: Mia Zabelka - electric violin, vocals, live electronics Station Manager and sound engineer: Alessandro Renzi Technical direction at JRC: Denis Novello and Andreas Aschberger We are pleased to announce the new sound art project A Natural Contract by the Crown Quartet. The project is supported by the festival Resonances IV - NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract. To know the world is to breathe, to breathe is to savour the world. An interspecies dialogue where you find yourself human, vegetable, animal and mineral, in the name of fusion. A world composed not of objects but of streams that penetrate us and that we penetrate, of waves of varying intensity and in perpetual movement. We can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Towards a “multispecies storytelling” (Donna Haraway). A Natural Contract is created for Resonances IV and it crosses borders through the simultaneity of music and language in a musical exchange between four different European countries. The four countries in the Alps-Adriatic-Region have been barely accessible due to the Corona pandemic. The idea of this live sound art concert at a distance is to invoke notions of memory, a discourse, a call to the most basic elements of humanity and society. A Natural Contract is a new project for the Crown Quartet, conceived and directed by Usmaradio. In addition to the rich instrumentation of the quartet, A Natural Contract has a textual layer embedded in the compositional structure (which leaves room for spontaneous improvised exchange). As with field recordings in music, the linguistic elements are subjected to selection, processing, reproduction and abstraction of text fragments that acquire new significances in connection with the sounds and the music.The multilingualism of the text fragments reflects the diversity of the musical languages and approaches of the four musicians. Thus vocal modes of expression are explored and contrasted in their diversity. There is a musical transformation of semantics, reflecting the absurdity that arises when you repeat a word for a long time, highlighting the transitions between language and sound, from noise to music. These processes in turn reflect the shifting meanings of terms such as borders and freedom in theCorona-shaped cultural-political landscape. All four ensemble members have been working in the field of radio art for many years and have participated in diverse live stream project formats. So far, due to the technical challenges and complexity, these projects have always been implemented in cooperation with public institutions. The radio as an artistic stage or platform is a unique performance and communication space. It is always a special moment to play live on the radio and to come into intimate contact with listeners in their own four walls. In times of physical distancing, the radio in connection with the internet offers a new enhanced platform for communicative exchange. A Natural Contract is about overcoming borders through music and language. A Natural Contract overcomes boundaries that have closed at an astonishing speed due to Covid-19. The long-term social, economic, socio-political implications of the events of the last few months are not yet foreseeable - just as little as we know how the virus and its mutations will affect our futures. In this respect, A Natural Contract is also a memory, a discourse, a reflexion of the most fundamental elements of humanity and society. The four artists are connected via internet stream from their studios in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Croatia in an acoustic exchange consisting of music, language and sound. The piece revolves around questioning acoustic materials, their manipulation, meaning, application and aesthetics.The piece will be broadcast live on usmaradio.org and other radio stations across Europe Official Website of Resonance IV Summer School - https://resonances.jrc.ec.europa.eu/resonances-iv-summer-school In 2020 Usmaradio created the series Crown - fighting the lockdown through radio. An international tea time live concerts radio series. 33 daily collaborative telematic performances with the remote participation of artists from all over the world. PODCAST CHANNEL HERE - https://www.spreaker.com/show/crown-radio Later on, this experience contributed to the creation of the Crown Quartet project. 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐭 ➥ 𝐙𝐚𝐡𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢 (UK, PK, resident in Austria) is a musician, composer and curator. She performs live in various constellations and creates multi-channel installations and radio art. Her work combines field recordings, instruments and voices in an ongoing exploration of sound and music, investigating and revealing the spaces between. ➥ 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐜𝐢 𝐃𝐚𝐥ò is an Italian clarinetist, composer, visual and sound artist. He performs worldwide in the usual and most unusual places. ➥ 𝐓𝐢𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐳𝐞𝐦𝐳ő Composer, performer, media artist, lives in Hungary. Oriented by his diverse lines of interest towards the borderline areas of the various genres. His works are present across Europe and beyond. ➥ Austrian violinist, vocalist, improviser and composer 𝐌𝐢𝐚 𝐙𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐤𝐚 is at the forefront of international electro-acoustic performance art. She developed a unique musical language she calls “automatic playing”, where the music grows out of her body and gestures and finds its expression in her acoustic/electric violin, electronic devices, alien objects and voice. The violin itself becomes a sound machine. https://usmaradio.org A Natural Contract is produced by Resonances IV in collaboration with Usmaradio and Giardini Pensili.