Call for Papers des International Exploratory Workshop des Instituts Experimentelle Design- und Medienkulturen der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW und der GfM-AG »Auditive Kultur und Sound Studies«

Sounding out the Anthropocene. Investigating Sonic Media Ecologies

The workshop will include keynote lectures by proponents of media ecological research perspectives, working sessions on the basis of prior readings and statements of the participants and live demonstrations of media settings at the Critical Media Lab as complements to conventional conference talks.

The workshop welcomes contributions that relate to one or several of the following issues as well as submissions that address traditional issues in our field and approach them from an ecological perspective:

· sonic ecosystems: auditory media cultures approached in ecological terms

· sound and the sensorium: hearing and sound sensors in relation to other senses and sensing devices

· the critical potential of sound: sonically challenged notions of space and time (atmospheres, urban space, rhythmicity, deep time)

· sounds of the Anthropocene: analyses of concrete encounters and experiences with sonic infrastructures or infrastructural sounds

· excavating sonic design practices: case studies of sound design processes that contribute to shaping our soundscape

· broadening the spectrum: how do nonhuman sounds and signals challenge our understanding of sound and hearing?

· transgressing the audible: models and practices of mediation of sound in multisensorial ecosystems

· sonic experimental systems: simulations, modelings, auralisations and their relation to the world

Proposals for talks (~300 words) can be sent to both felix.gerloff@fhnw.ch and sebastian.schwesinger@hu-berlin.de until the 1st of December 2015. Notifications will be sent out by December 18th.