RESONANT SIGNALS
SONIFICATION WORKSHOPS + INSTALLATION
BERLIN- MAY- SEP 2022
SONIFICATION WORKSHOPS + INSTALLATION
BERLIN- MAY- SEP 2022
DIFFUSION | DEFRACTION
Diffusion | Defraction is a data sonfication that was created in Resonant Signals, a programme of free public data sonification workshops by Jamie Perera and Alistair Alexander with Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek, a public library in Berlin.
In a one-day workshop a group of 18 people from Berlin working with Sound artist Jamie Perera and Alistair Alexander explored data related to climate change and community.
The work is based on data showing the extent of Antarctic sea ice alongside data on: different ethnic groups seeking protection in Berlin, attacks on refugees and also the frequency of anti-refugee posts on the AFD website.
This work is not suggesting any causal link between climate, migration and hate-crime data; rather it is presenting a range of large-scale displacements in our climatic, cultural and social systems, creating layers of loosely entangled anxieties affecting Berlin communities: loss of nature, movement of people, rising sea levels, online polarities, societal fractures. The piece evokes questions on vulnerability and protection; how does our reaction to threat affect our relationship with the future?
Diffusion | Defraction is a data sonfication that was created in Resonant Signals, a programme of free public data sonification workshops by Jamie Perera and Alistair Alexander with Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek, a public library in Berlin.
In a one-day workshop a group of 18 people from Berlin working with Sound artist Jamie Perera and Alistair Alexander explored data related to climate change and community.
The work is based on data showing the extent of Antarctic sea ice alongside data on: different ethnic groups seeking protection in Berlin, attacks on refugees and also the frequency of anti-refugee posts on the AFD website.
This work is not suggesting any causal link between climate, migration and hate-crime data; rather it is presenting a range of large-scale displacements in our climatic, cultural and social systems, creating layers of loosely entangled anxieties affecting Berlin communities: loss of nature, movement of people, rising sea levels, online polarities, societal fractures. The piece evokes questions on vulnerability and protection; how does our reaction to threat affect our relationship with the future?
