Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference

Urgencies
Time November 5 November 6 November 7
10:00 am Participants Admission Participants Admission Participants Admission
10:30 – 12:30 am Panel Sessions 1

Panel Chair: José Alberto Gomes

Daniela Gentile - Listening as an eco-political form of resistance
Isidora Correa - Extremo-Philia: Sonic and Visual Ecologies Beyond the Lithium Frontier
Serge Aa [hOrO mO X] - AI‑proof Art and Ethics of AI Belief: Quantum Randomness as Visual Resistance

Panel Sessions 3

Panel Chair: Cristina Sá

Katia Geha - Bodies of Work: Understanding Painful Political Performance Practices
José Alberto Gomes - Auto-Retrato: Time, Endurance, and the Performer’s Body in a Sound-Based Performance Art
Natalia Kowalska-Elkader - Detuned Realities: Sonic Resistance in New American Radio

Panel Sessions 5

Panel Chair: Carlos Natálio 

Sviatlana Talatai - In Search of Belonging: Sound, Identity, and Exile in Artistic Practice Live narration and performance with video fragments
Inês Leal - Impressions of Movement and Other Barbaric Acts (research-based artistic project)
Bernardo Bento - Acoustic Ecology in Animation Film

12:30 pm Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break
2:00 – 3:30 pm Keynote: Steve Goodman

Sonic Warfare
Chair: José Vasco Carvalho

Keynote: Aura Satz

Preemptive Listening: When does the Symptom Become the Alarm?
Chair: Lorena Ferreia Alves

Artist Talk: Abbas Zahedi

Attunement as Exit: Listening Beyond Immersion in the Ecologies of Grief
Chair: Rui Dias

3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 pm Panel Sessions 2

Panel Chair: Jéssica Gaspar

Nuno da Luz - Alarm Call: Sonic Denizenship between Ferality and Noise
Ana Moraes Vieira e Antenor Ferreira Correa - Emotional Landscapes in Sound Creations
Mona Hedayati -  Critical Aesthetics of Performing Data through Sonic Assemblies

Panel Sessions 4

Panel Chair: André Baltazar 

Hugo Paquete - Maximum Sound, Meta-Opera: Human-Machine Co-Agency and Post-Techno Aesthetics in the Age of AI
Daniel Louis Lythgoe  - Scoring Otherwise: Algorithmic Interpretation of Graphic Scores as Counter-Hegemonic Media
Rodrigo Carvalho - We Are Sand Grains: Rethinking Coastal Narratives through Art

Panel Sessions 6

Panel Chair: João Amorim

Matheus de Simone - Sounds of Nudism: Brighton, Galheta, and Massarandupió
Bibi Cavalcanti - ReverB
Mariana Machado - Abstraction and production of intelligibilities in Alexandre Estrela's exhibition: Interval

6:30 pm

Film screening: Preemptive Listening

A film by Aura Satz. 2024. 89’
Performance
Omnispectrum
Henrique Fernandes, Jorge Quintela e Inti Gallardo.
Production: Sonoscopia
 
8.00 pm  

Dinner: FLAME BH Concept
Address:  R. de Diogo Botelho 1882 Loja 8, 4150-261 Porto. (5-minute walk from the conference venue) Registered participants only