Our team members, psychogeophysicist Martin Howse and media artist Till Bovermann will conduct the workshop Circulation and corruption, examining the various circulations of media through the matters and bodies of the earth and atmosphere, and through a certain corruption or dissolution of (digital) identity, meaning and description.

The workshop is fully booked. Many thanks for your overwhelming interest.

March 28th, 10:00 to 17:30
March 29th, 09:30 to 13:00
Senatssitzungssaal L0123

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien, Austria

All technology that is derived of earth, must be decomposed and again reduced to earth. [Basil Valentine]

Old earth, no more lies, I’ve seen you, it was me, with my other ravening eyes, too late. [Samuel Beckett]

Within a one and a half day hands-on, speculative workshop we will collectively explore the interfaces and exchanges between living systems (earth, compost, worms, mycelium) and active audio electronics. We will participate primarily with our hands and our ears within circulations amongst earths, composts, mushroom mycelium, moulds, active chemistry, worms, crows, dusts, smokes and fogs and impulses and waves.

During the workshop we will construct a series of open circuits which do not conceal their materiality but participate equally within material and electrochemical exchanges and circulations. These circuits are inspired through a media archaeology of electronic music production, and through the history of alchemical engagement with minerals, with decay and with the earth. These technical and conceptual influences are equally opened to circulation and corruption during the workshop.

We will work with a range of materials (for example, machine cut copper sheets and oyster mushroom mycelium) and approaches (for example, with radio transmission and signal reception) to design and build these open circuits which will enter into processes of appreciable decay, corruption and dissolution. These open circuits will be placed during the workshop in selected interior and exterior locations to participate in various time scales of deterioration and degradation.

No specific technical knowledge is necessary for participation.