Machine Listening

Exhibition

Data Relations

...within censored datasets and machine learning. While Machine Listening’s audio assemblage of semi-fictional tales and speculative scenes explores how language and speech become a new form of ‘computational theatre’ within the field of machine learning...
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Machine Listening: What is data?

Centre for Contemporary Art) · Machine Listening (Master File...
Podcast

Thao Phan Performance lecture: Listening to Misrecognition

What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance? This experimental presentation is a collaboration between feminist...
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Data Relations: Curatorial Walkthrough

McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray/James Parker/Joel Stern), Mimi Ọnụọha and Winnie Soon. Read more about the exhibition here.
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Opening Celebration of Data Relations

...of artificial intelligence. Featuring Australian and international artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Lauren Lee McCarthy, Mimi Ọnụọha and Winnie Soon, plus Data Relations Summer School...
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Data Relations Summer School Closing Event: Suvani Suri, Thao Phan, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne

Performance lecture: Thao Phan, Listening to Misrecognition What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how...
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Data in contemporary art exhibitions by Miriam Kelly

Lavigne argue, ‘data is an abstraction’.[35] Lauren Lee McCarthy stresses that data is ‘always incomplete’. That data is situated. [36] Machine Listening remind us, ‘data isn’t mined, it’s made...
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Data Relations

Featuring artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Mimi Onuoha, Winnie Soon; plus Data Relations Summer School Guest Curator Miriam Kelly, Coordinating...
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Contributor Biographies

...staged at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in 2018 and City Gallery, Wellington in 2019. His current work, with Sean Dockray and Joel Stern, is on machine listening...
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Data Relations Summer School Schedule

DAY THREE: SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY Session #3, 12–4pm, RMIT: Data Audits, or Why Listen to Datasets? with Machine Listening (James Parker, Sean Dockray, Joel Stern), Mehak Sawney and Lauren Lee McCarthy...
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ACCA launches new Digital Wing

Surrogate 2022. Exhibiting artists Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern) present the full transcript of their multi-channel sound installation, After words 2022, featured in the exhibition...
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Data Relations exhibition video featuring artists Zach Blas, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Mimi Ọnụọha and Winnie Soon

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Data Relations Exhibition Kit

Artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern), Mimi Ọnụọha, Winnie Soon; plus Data Relations Summer School...
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Data Relations Summer School Callout

All curator, Liquid Architecture, Monash University & ADM+S, Australia) Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern) Machine Vision Reading Group (co-convened by Chris...
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2023 Artistic Program

March 19 Artists: Zach Blas, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Machine Listening, Mimi Onuoha, Winne Soon, and the Digital Relations Summer School Curator: Miriam Kelly Coordinating Curator: Shelley McSpedden Data Relations brings together artist-led projects...
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Transcript: Monstrous Chorus: voices, sound, performance

...also note that our voices are mediated by technology by a distance that we are in this moment now that is going to be recorded, and which will probably will be listened to by other people listening to this podcast at another time, so I think that the record and datafication of our voice...
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Opening Night: Winnie Soon and Mimi Ọnụọha performance lectures

...information by human and machine forces. This artist talk will unfold the poetics of erasure through forgetting, remembering, recalling, erasing, voicing and generating characters. Biographies...
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Artist Statement: Maree Clarke

The process involves a rehydrated river reed specimen that is encased in wax, and cut by a machine, to 200th of a millimetre. It then falls into water and is picked-up by a glass slide to then view through the microscope. A camera is connected to the microscope, that is connected to the computer...
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ACCA Exhibition Program for 2022

...is an opening or passage leading to the interior of the body. Encompassing a range of sensations and functions, the plurality of meatus becomes a way for Barrett to explore the practice of listening that decentres the ear to activate the entire body, attuned to both conscious responses and unconscious...
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ACCA Open: Artists and projects announced and additional commissions added to the series

...and Tim Humphrey are Melbourne-based audio artists who create unexpected situations for listening. Their work is driven by a curiosity about sound in culture and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences, through public interventions and participation. Current areas of interest...
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Six Walks Episode Five: Timmah Ball on exploding the Maribyrnong Transcript

From a cloistered apartment I write about space from a position of spacelessness aware that anyone who listens may approach this audio from multiple physicality’s or positions. Walking along the Maribyrnong River trail noticing the scattered remnants of a Military Defence site...