Listening Space at ISEA 2020 - Why Sentience?

Listening Space was selected to form part of the art exhibition of the 26th International Symposium of Electronic Art which took part in Montreal. Although initially the idea was to have the work presented as an installation, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the halting of international travel, it formed part of the symposium’s online exhibition, and the organizing team put together a mini documentary about the work:

My collaborator Audrey Briot also did a real-time online performance on Jitsi Meet which is not yet edited to be shared, but you can see a couple of screenshots on the header of this post and here:

Listening Space performance during ISEA 2020

Audrey picking up and decoding a NOAA satellite in real-time using a wearable V-dipole antenna.

For this last iteration of the performance she created a full-body jumpsuit which allowed her to wear the antenna embedded as an apron attached on the rest of the garment. Will post more pics of this new wearable at another post soon!