Joel Stern
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Exhibition
Data Relations
“Data Relations” is an art exhibition exploring the relationships between society, technology, and the data economy. Artists critically and poetically reflect on contemporary issues such as algorithmic violence and the impact of artificial intelligence on culture.
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Program
Uncommon Knowledge: Joel Stern on Eavesdropping
Joel Stern is a curator, musician and artist; Co-Artistic Director (with Danni Zuvela) of Liquid Architecture; and Co-Founder of the organisations OtherFilm and Instrument Builders Project. For his lecture, Joel Stern will discuss the contemporary resonances of ‘eavesdropping’ under conditions...
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Program
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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Program
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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Program
Monstrous Chorus: voices, sound, performance
Join us for a panel discussion about the use of the voice in performance and sound practice, in association with Frances Barrett: Meatus. This panel will be co-moderated by Debris Facility Pty Ltd of Liquid Architecture, and Joel Stern, former Liquid...
Podcast
Thao Phan Performance lecture: Listening to Misrecognition
...technoscience researcher Thao Phan and Machine Listening, an ongoing investigation and experiment in collective learning, instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and researcher, curator and artist Joel Stern. Part lecture and part performance, this event brings together critical...
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Program
SOUND AS CONSEQUENCE
Sound as Consequence is convened by NEW16 artist Julian Day and brings together a community of artists to explore the possibilities for sound within an exhibition context. Symposium includes mini keynote lectures from Julian Day and Joel Stern, a panel...
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Data Relations Summer School Callout
Joel Stern (exhibiting artist, RMIT & ADM+S, Australia)
Lauren Lee McCarthy (exhibiting artist, UCLA Design Media Arts, USA)
Laura McLean (Capture...
Press Release
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...
Press Release
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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Transcript: Monstrous Chorus: voices, sound, performance
Architecture, and Joel Stern, former Liquid Architecture Director, and current Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT. Speakers include: artists V Barratt, Frances Barrett, and Archie Barry...
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Art Club
...2023 Program
Thursday 16 March, 6–8pm, ACCA: Reflections on Eavesdropping and Data Relations Summer School with guest speaker Joel Stern...
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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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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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Program
Data Relations Summer School Closing Event: Suvani Suri, Thao Phan, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne
...in collective learning, instigated by artist Sean Dockray, legal scholar James Parker, and researcher, curator and artist Joel Stern.
Part lecture and part performance, this event brings together critical work on race and algorithmic culture...
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Video
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 in contemporary art exhibitions by Miriam Kelly
Melbourne and Canberra-based Machine Listening draws on the academic, artistic, legal, and curatorial expertise of Sean Dockray, James Parker and Joel Stern. They are focused on sound, speech and listening, and their work has taken the form of exhibitions, publications, symposia, curricula, and audio...