AURALROOTS: Learning about Sentience though Embodiment and Simulation in Three Sonic Environments
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Machinic Sense & Sensibility: Sensing Spaces and Places
Presentation Title:
- AURALROOTS: Learning about Sentience though Embodiment and Simulation in Three Sonic Environments
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Abstract:
AURALROOTS is a media sculpture that combines viewer interaction with inspirations from tactile and aural sensory perception. The sculptural form is based on the functions and forms of the stereocilia, tiny hair cells on our auditory nerves of the inner ear in the cochlea. The content of AURALROOTS is about how we learn through sounds from being embodied in different environments: a) as a growing embryo in the womb, b) as a daughter listening to her mother and finally c) as a female artist communicating with auditory scientists. The overall aim is to explore learning through sentience by giving the viewer the capacity to imagine they are immersed inside these sonic environments.
