Methodologies of Sonic Thinking – international conference

We cordially invite you to an online conference Methodologies of Sonic Thinking, organised by Philosophy Institute at Czech Academy of Sciences.
The conference will be streamed on YouTube of Philosophy Institute https://youtu.be/2SYIsOG9YEg, during 24th and 25th of November.
See the attached program for the details.
Methodologies of Sonic Thinking / Between artistic research and phenomenology
The conference is organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Prague within the GACR-project “Phenomenological Investigations of Sonic Environments” and hosted by the Jan-Evangelista-Purkyne University, Usti nad Labem, CZ.
Zoom conference – live streaming for general audience on YouTube – join here: https://www.youtube.com/user/FilosofickyustavAVCR/
Questions for presenters will be collected from chat-boxes at both platforms. Abstracts available at www.sonicthinking.net

Program
NOVEMBER, 24

10.00 – 11.30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe-University, Frankfurt a. M.) Fan-(oh man!)-o-logics: towards a Practical Aesthetics
11.30 – 11.45 coffee break
11.45 – 13.15 SONIC THINKING – CRITICAL POINTS
Jim Igor Kallenberg (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Deaf Non-listening: Critique of the Ideal Listener and the Real Listener
Will Schrimshaw (Edge Hill University) Thinking about Sound: A Critique of Sonic Epistemology
13.15 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 SONIC PHENOMENOLOGY
Martin Nitsche (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Phenomenological Topology of Sonic Environments
Vojtěch Výravský (Charles University, Prague) Want to Catch the Northern Wind. About Listening to the World
15.30 – 15.45 coffee break
15.45 – 17.45 TECHNOLOGY – IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
Matthew McGinity (Immersive Experience Lab, Technical University Dresden) The Phenomenology of Sonic Presence
Yichen Wang (Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National University) Sonic Sculptural Staircase in Augmented Reality
Ivan Gutierrez (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Technologically Mediated Auditory Experience – Split Horizons
 

NOVEMBER 25

10.00 – 11.30 RHYTHM OF BIO-SOUNDS
Louisa Collenberg (Goethe-University, Frankfurt a. M.) Rhythmic Encounters in Interspecies Improvisation
Vít Pokorný (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Rhythm as a Biodynamic Principle
11.30 – 11.45 coffee break
11.45 – 13.15 URBAN SOUNDSCAPES
Miloš Vojtěchovský (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – FAMU) Prick Your Ears – Urban and Rural Mapping by Sound
Jiří Zelenka (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Echoes of Music We Don’t Listen to. Phenomenological Investigation of Sonic Environments of Contemporary Marketplaces
13.15 – 14.00 lunch break
14.00 – 15.30 SONIC SIGNALING
József Iszlai (Partium Christian University in Oradea) Sound and the Ecology of Fear
Luca Soudant (independent scholar, Netherlands) Sonic Manspreading: An Artistic Research Concept
15.30 – 15.45 coffee break
15.45 – 17.45 ART – ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Irena Carkovova, Jan Krombholz (Purkyne University, Usti nad Labem) Sonic Ecology as a Cross-Sectional Topic in Art Education
Polina Khatsenka (Purkyne University, Usti nad Labem) Artistic Research of Aspects and Potentialities of Spatial Audio Systems Application in Context of Gallery Installation and Audio Performance
Barry Wan (Purkyne University, Usti nad Labem) Embedding Electroacoustic Sound and Acoustic Instrument(S)