Very interesting projects that invite us to reflect on place and the traces left, in memories, smiles, silences, all over the world. It would be a treat for those living or passing by Berlin.

http://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/

http://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/events/category/open-platform

An intense day workshop in Centro Veracruzano para las Artes – CEVART sharing perceptions of the city with 22 talented artists from diverse disciplines exploring the immense and beautiful port of Veracruz- Mexico in silence.

Gracias a todos los participantes!!!

Women & Identity Group Show 2011 from Deep Listening Institute on Vimeo.

Proud of being amongst this group of women. Three screen shots of Sounding Underground are being exhibited here: L’affichiste, Lirio Popular, and While you Wait. These are accompanied by gardens in summer, roots of strings in white sand, warming hands and faces in vibrant colours, and elegant women’s heads drawings and sculptures. Stills from performances, life and more life and its cycles. The music “The Horns of Hathor” (Pauline Oliveros and IONE) joins this video-dream.

http://deeplistening.org/site/content/women-and-identity-group-show

A principios de Junio tuve el placer de compartir mi experiencia de creación transdisciplinar y de enseñanza a nivel de Master, en el Primer Encuentro de Arte Transversal en el Centro Nacional de las Artes – CENART, y en el Centro Veracruzano para las Artes – CEVART. Mi charla se tituló “Justo en el Medio, prácticas creativas con tecnologías y sus vertientes transdisciplinarias”. Aquí puede acceder a la presentación.

El innovador Diplomado Tránsitos es ofrecido para profesionales de las artes, quienes desarrollan sus proyectos con una estructura no usual, empezando por los nombres de las estructuras modulares llamadas nodos, y la variedad de oportunidades de aprendizaje que los estudiantes tienen. Esta flexibilidad ofrece el campo perfecto para la creación de ideas innovadoras y proyectos donde las artes y disciplinas se cruzan. Es un espacio de práctica pedagógica dinámica. Proyectos como “El Hoyo” y “Todo lo que brilla es oro”, son resultado de práctica transversal.

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In June I had the pleasure to share my experience as transdisciplinar artist and programme leader in the IOCT Masters in Creative Technologies (in 2010), during the first Summit of Arte Transversal, in the CENART (National Centre for the Arts), in Mexico, City, and in the CEVART (Centre for the Arts in Veracruz). The title of my talk: “Just in the Middle, creative practice with technologies and their transdiciplinary crossings”. Here, you can access to the presentation.

The innovative postgraduate course Tránsitos is offered to arts proffesionals, who develop their projects in an unusual structure, with Modules that offer variety of learning experiences. The flexible structure offers the perfect environment to create innovative projects where arts and other disciplines criss-cross. Projects such as “El Hoyo” and “Todo lo que brilla es oro”, are the result of this practice.

Exhibición "El Hoyo" por Marie-Christine Camus y Neil Ruzic en CENART, México DF

Exhibición "Todo lo que brilla es oro" CENART Mexico DF, por TRES y Cinvestav

New Genre Prize – Innovation in form or style, including improvisation, multimedia, use of non-traditional notation:

Winner: Sabrina Peña Young of Murray, KY for “Creation” for chorus, percussion and multimedia

Honorable Mentions:
Hannah Gibbs of York, England for “Tale: A Radiophonic Soundscape”
Ximena Alarcon-Diaz of Leicester, England for “Sounding Underground”, an interactive virtual environment

The full list of all winners and honorable mentions is on:

http://iawm.org/oppsComp_snm_currentWinners.htm

Congratulations to all!

I am proud of announcing my publication on a very innovative Journal “Sensate, A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice”. The Journal has been incubated in The Sensory Ethnography Lab and metaLAB (at) Harvard spaces.

“Sensate is an online, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Our aim is to build on the current groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and innovative media practice to integrate new modes of scholarship into the cognitive life of the academy and beyond.”

The journal:
http://sensatejournal.com

My article-piece called: “Sounding Underground: listening, performing and transforming the commuting experience”
http://www.sensatejournal.com/2011/03/ximena-alarcon-sounding-underground/

Sensate is built in Zeega platform, and it’s optimized for Safari or Google Chrome browsers. It works well in Firefox too.

Sounding Underground in exhibition at Cities Methodologies in UCL London

Sounding Underground exhibition in Cities Methodologies 2011!

Inaugurated in 2009, CitiesMethodologies showcases innovative methods in urban research.

Visitors to Cities Methodologies encounter diverse methods of urban research in
juxtaposition – from archival studies to statistical analyses, practice-led art, architectural and
design work to oral history, writing, walking, performances, film-making and photography.

Cities Methodologies promotes cross- and inter-disciplinary work, and showcases recent
research on a wide range of cities.

Participants are drawn from right across UCL, as well as from De Montfort University, CUNY,
University of Edinburgh, Goldsmiths, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Humboldt
Universität Berlin, LSE, University of Manchester, National University of the Arts, Bucharest,
Queen Mary’s University of London, and the University of Westminster.

EXHIBITION AND EVENTS: 4 to 7 May 2011
Weds 4 May, 18.30 to 21.00
Thurs 5 May, 10.00 to 20.00
Friday 6 May, 10.00 to 20.00
Saturday 7 May, 10.00-13.00

Venue: Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB.
All events are free. No booking required except where stated.

Programme updates: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/en2/index.php?page=3.0.0

“Rather than the collective memory- I was fascinated with the potential of the individual stories that I wanted to hear. Who were they, where were they going, home, work, vacation, grief, solitude – I would agree that the acoustic environment is very powerful.” (Caroline)

“The revisit of underground through this project brought back some memories: a plain cloth police officer at the exit in one of the stations in London; a group of pickpocketers in Rome; the musicians on the platforms of New York.
The use of mixed media such as sound and photos “reconnect” you with your own experience. The new forms of media allow us to deepen our experience by incorporating the sensual elements.” (Paul)

Here their complete insightful comments and questions:
http://newmedianarrativesonline.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-10-guest-lecture.html

Thanks Jess Laccetti for inviting me as a Guest Lecturer in your course!

It’s very interesting how our perception changes when we are conscious of the distance of the performance space (through telematic networks) and the effects that it has for the sonic interaction. We focus more on listening, and some students were attracted by the idea of intimacy. It allows to combine multiple media and sensibilities. Beautiful experience!! Thanks to all students.

A slide show of the experience by the film maker and student Tove Noorjahaan Dalenius.