Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference 2026

  Nov 2 Nov 3 Nov 4
9:00 – 10:00 am 

Registration

 

 

10:00 am

Opening Session

Registration Registration
10:30 – 12:30 pm 

Panel Sessions 1 (MOCAP)
Spatial Listening, Acoustic Territories & Situated Practice (Chair Vasco Carvalho)
· The Temporary Sonic Territory: Nine Days of Green and the Infrastructures of Ultra-Local Listening |Morten Søndergaard (Sonic Museion - Aalborg University, Denmark)
· What Is the “Field” in Field Recording? Near Silence and the Making of an Acoustic Territory | Giulia Mengozzi (ALMARE; Naples Academy of Fine Arts) & Mattia Capelletti (ALMARE) 
· Tuned by the Territory: Vernacular Acoustics and Ritual Memory in Limen (Maranola, 2023) | Ivano Pecorini (University of Greenwich)
· Porous Soundscapes: Sensing and the Production of Epistemic Indeterminacy |Audrey Doh (NYU ITP)

Panel Sessions 2 (BlackBox)
Interspecies Listening & Multispecies Agency (Catarina Braga/Francisca Gonçalves)
· Worlding with Fleas: Speculative Storytelling and the Cosmopolitics of Multispecies Territories | Yuhe Hu (University College London)
· Listening to Ants | Jaime Oliver La Rosa (New York University)
· Sea-Mouse: Acoustic Territory, Untranslatability, and the Multispecies Ancestry of Listening in the Baltic | Dominika Kolenda (University of Gdansk) & Seahearings (Morsluchy)
· TURMINTA — What the Storms Know: Atmospheric Territories, Situated Technologies and Relational Ontologies | Lorena Salas ( Sacha Manchi)

Panel Sessions 5 (MOCAP)
Gendered Bodies, Voices & Political Belonging (Chair Sahra Kunz)
· Shame Parade: Auditory Zones of Shame and Voice |Angel Cohn Castle (Newcastle University) & Davide Bugarin (Kingston University)
· Necromaterialism: A Poetic of Rot | Helen Hines (Universität der Künste Berlin)
· Rethinking Belonging in Women’s Digital Nomadism |Giulliany Feitosa (Independent Researcher) & Luciana Lima (Universidade de Lisboa)
· CYBERSEEDs of Marielle Franco: The Power of Activist Design in Digital Networks | Thais Linhares (FAU Lisboa)

Panel Sessions 6 (BlackBox)
Sound, Colonial Power & Material Memory
· Resonant Materializations: Land, Transmission and Acoustic Infrastructures | Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra (Arizona State University)
· Inherited listening: communal sonic anarchives as territorial time travel | Cecilia Wee (CWxWC) & William Crosby (Anglia Ruskin University )
· 'STRINGWIRE'  : contested spaces, histories and heritages within the piano |Amalia Deorsola (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
· Listening to Three Cities: Belonging, Drift and the Autobiographical Turn in Audiovisual Performance Research | Frederico Dinis (ID+ - Research Institute in Design, Media and Culture, Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave)

Keynote Session 3
Charlotte Jarvis (Royal College of Art) (Chair Jéssica Gaspar)
12:30 pm  Lunch break  Lunch break  Lunch break 
2:00 – 3:30 pm Keynote Session 1
 Marta de Menezes (Cultivamos Cultura) (Chair Patrícia Moreira)
Keynote Session 2
Iris Garrelfs (Goldsmiths, University of London) (Guy Fleisher)
Round Table -  Ecological Thinking in Media Arts (Chair Cristina Sá)

· Open dialogue with participants and keynote speakers & Patrícia Moreira
· Of Sand and Salt: A Pluriversal Reading of Seaweed Harvesting in Northern Portugal | Mariana Vilanova
· Water Damage: field recording and expanded cinema as means of exploring river eutrophication | Michael Pigott

3:30 – 4:00 pm 

Coffee Break 

Coffee Break 

Coffee Break 

4:00 – 6:00 pm 

Panel Sessions 3 (MOCAP)  
Algorithmic Cartographies, AI & Data Politics (Chair - André Baltazar)
· Heliosonic Sonifier: A Cybernetic Ecology of AI Agents in the Expanded Field of Sonic Performance | Hugo Paquete (CEEC - FCT Researcher, INET -md, University of Aveiro)
· Post Hoc Territories: Small Data, Collective Memory, and Contestable AI | Gustavo Guzmán (Independent)
· Mapping the Mismatch: Walking Between Lived and Computed Territories Mapping the Mismatch: Walking Between Lived and Computed Territories | Fernando Carvalho (ITI - LARSyS, CIEBA, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa) & Mónica Mendes (ITI - LARSyS, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa)
    
Panel Sessions 4 (BlackBox)
Diasporic Archives, Displacement & Embodied Memory (Chair Filipa Cruz)
· Migrating Voices: Sound, Networked Performance and the Reactivation of Ancestral Territories in Ritual Walks | Sylvie Marchand (Gigacircus) & Mary Marinopoulou
· When Territory No Longer Holds: The Biennial as a Distributed Infrastructure of Political Imagination | Lais Andrade (i2ADS)
· Transmitting Ghostly Songs of the Gulf Womb: Sound, Oral Tradition and Hybrid Epistemologies | Tara Aldughaither (Sawtasura) 
· "Contains no Sound?" — The Scanner Bed as Existential Territory | Simon Fleury (Independent researcher/artist)

Panel Sessions 7 (BlackBox) 
Living and Computational Ecologies: Data, Matter & Agency (Chair José Alberto Gomes)
· Algaerhythmic Waves: Speculative Fabulation for Inter-species Entrainment, Eutrophic Media, and Algal Sounding-with
· Tyler Grimes (University of Colorado, Boulder) & Kimberley Bianca (Florida Atlantic University)
· Critical Zone: Between Equilibrium and Disturbance
· Isabela Ortiz; Nicolás Urrego; Veronika Gryshchuk & Delyth Field (University of the Arts London)
· Tracing Acoustic Territories in Industrialised Wetlands
· Liangchen Sui (Goldsmiths, University of London)
· Drumming for Love: Drought and the Politics of Environmental Measurement
· Erze Dinarama (Artist, Architect, Researcher)
 
Panel Sessions 8 (BlackBox)  
Computational Habitats, Interfaces & Distributed Agency (Lorena Alves)
· Pathos: Notes on a system | Thomas Smith (University of New South Wales) 
· Body-Extension Archive: Recursive Reconfiguration of Subjectivity | Ying-Chen Lin (Frank Mohr Institute, Minerva Art Academy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences MA Media, Art, Design & Technology (MADtech) 
· No Fixed Terrain | Jamie Gledhill (Norwich University of the Arts)
· Anthropogenic landscapes and dynamics of disturbance in the digital installation “Acts of Belonging” | Małgorzata Suś (Rio Neiva); Harris Iveson (Rio Neiva); Marieke Leene (Rio Neiva); Doeke Wartena (ArtEZ University of the Arts); Jéssica Jacinto (MARE, Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente) & Francisca Mariz (E.Rio)
6:00 – 7:00 pm 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break  Closing Session
7:00 pm 

Performance - Water Damage
Michael Lightborne 

   
8.30 pm   

Dinner: (registered participants only) 
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