Live from the Threshold: an Art-Science Conversation
🗓 23 October 2025
📍 The Gym at Judson, NYC
🕖 7pm (approx. 2h)
Free entry — registration required via Link in Bio (limited seating)
Artists with Evidence (AwE) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation, are thrilled to launch a new art-science collaborative program with this first event in 2025.
Live from the Threshold invites audiences into a space of embodied encounters, where sensing becomes a form of inquiry and resistance. Through conversation, listening, and presence, this live podcast will explore the porous edges between human and non-human, body and environment, the known and the unknown. Together, we will consider underground ecosystems, interspecies listening, and the politics of access and care — not only as subjects of study but as active participants in the dialogue.
Curated and moderated by Ines Montalvao (Program Director, AwE), the evening brings together three outstanding voices in art-science:
Cara Hagan · brings embodied knowledge working through movement, performance, and interdisciplinary storytelling, centering the body as a site of ecological and cultural memory.
Linda O’Keeffe · works at the intersection of sound, environment, and feminist technoscience to open new channels of listening across species and amplify the politics of care and access.
Nikki Lindt · painter whose interdisciplinary practice draws deeply from the subterranean world, to explore and reflect on the rapidly shifting ecosystems of the earth.
At this threshold moment — where traditional frameworks are no longer sufficient — artists and scientists are called to think, sense, and respond together. This gathering gestures toward new imaginaries, where attention, care, and transdisciplinary practice help us inhabit uncertainty with integrity and imagination.
Join us in person for this unique event — the conversation will be recorded and published later as a podcast.
Please register via the link to secure your spot!
Soil listening on governors island today, not sure if the soil is absent of life or my sensors aren’t strong enough to pick up what’s under there, but only getting very, very brief little sounds in the soil.
SOUND STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICES CONFERENCE
AWA: ACTIONS OF WATER AWARENESS 1-2 MAY 2025
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
Call for Abstracts (Academic papers, Artist talks, and Posters/Demos):
Deadline: March 1st, 2025. Submission
https://you.stonybrook.edu/ssep/
The Art Department and the Hispanic Languages & Literature Department at Stony Brook University (SUNY), announce the 1st edition of the International Conference on Sound Studies and Experimental Practices.
The inaugural edition of this conference, titled AWA: ACTIONS OF WATER AWARENESS, will explore water as a vital element in the world’s ecosystems and examine this environment’s profound interconnection with sound.
This conference invites scholars in sound studies and cultural studies, as well as sound artists, scientists, and professionals from related disciplines to share their research through academic papers, artist talks, and posters/demos, which contribute to the discussion about how water resonates with and reverberates through cultural, social, biological, and environmental dimensions. We seek to build upon this history by leveraging the unique perspectives of sound studies and contemporary sonic arts.
Members of the non-random team are delighted to begin the first stages of a research partnership and get together for the #ecoart #artscience collaboration Common Ground. Talking about #acousticecology #deeplistening #listeningaspractice #alchemicalart, alchemy and #invasivespecies while touring governors island, north brother island and the manhattan waterways. So excited that this project is starting to get off the ground.
Amazing talk @ #lasertalks New York on #artsciencetechnology brilliant, complex and even funny discussions about collaborations between the arts and sciences, also debates around concepts such as the difference between art in the service of science, science fictioning, science visioning. Speakers included the director/curator of @biobat.artspace , @jenliu3 and @chico_macmurtrie . Such a diverse line up that explored soft robotics, biotech incubators and genetic engineering and dark encryption.
A mini installation
SETI Institute
2024
Left a selection of our workshop prompts and outcomes at the Institute for curious exploration and understanding of some of our methods for engagement.
A fabulous two weeks with @wearenonrandom kicking off multiple ideas for exploration as part of our Artist In Residence programme of activity over the next two years.
#sciarts #science #research #seti #geneticediting #handson #speculativedesign #speculativefutures #arts
An amazing stay at the Allen Telescope Array at Hat Creek Radio Observatory as part of our AIR @setiinstitute . Three days of listening, recording and talking about how we communicate across space and time. So much to think about, @wearenonrandom will be spending the next two years collaborating and working with SETI researchers to explore so many subjects and we cannot wait to share what we do. #artscience #deeplistening #deeptime
Workshop’s at the @setiinstitute yesterday presented by @wearenonrandom delivered by @ashleyjamesbrown explored how to reimagine the human hand for new environments through a combination of tactile and digital making, to hacking and repurposing technology to create wave forms and talk about how we listen to the universe, alien sounds, make sense of random signals and find ways to communicate with other species. #artscience #deeplistening #biohacking #bioart. Now we are off to the Allan Telescope array.
San Fran / San Jose / Mountain View friends and artists and experts of the unknown.
Workshops that we are running over the next two weeks at the @setiinstitute as part of our artist in residence exploration.
Sign up for free and come along and shape our sci-arts research and prototype artworks. Get in touch for more info. Would love to see you :-)
#sciarts #speculativefutures #artsresearch #design #digital #noisesynth #communication #evolvingourselves #geneticadaptation #participation #workshops
