The twenty fourth Annual Deep Wi-fi Competition of Radio and Transmission Artwork takes place from January 9 to March 31, 2025 in South River, Ontario. The NAISA Gallery & Café, and surrounding setting, will play host to a sequence of exhibitions, performances, and broadcasts, together with a digital album exploring the theme There’s Artwork in Our Nature.
“The complexity of the pure world is astounding in its variety and acoustic nuance. What are the acoustic influences of nature on the sound-making going down right now? Deep Wi-fi begins a yr lengthy exploration for NAISA’s 2025 programming that amplifies the collaborative relationship between art-making and nature via its 2025 theme There’s Artwork in Our Nature. Wi-fi transmission of all types, from the Web of Issues (IoT) prototyping platform to Micro-Radio FM Broadcast, turn into the conduit for escaping into the pure world,” feedback Darren Copeland, Creative Director, New Adventures in Sound Artwork in an announcement.
Right here’s a have a look at what’s in retailer.
Foresta Inclusive: (ex)tending in the direction of | January 9 to March 31
This interactive exhibit by Toronto digital media artist Jane Tingley takes information gathered from bushes and interprets it into photos, smells, and sounds. Alongside along with her crew, Tingley used sensors to assemble the info through the summer time in actual time from a selected tree within the uncommon Charitable Analysis Reserve, a community-based land belief in Cambridge, Ontario. The photographs, sounds, and smells will be skilled through the winter on the NAISA gallery on the interactive exhibit, together with that great scent of the forest after a rainfall.
Collaborators embody: Hrysovlanti Maheras: Sound Design; Faadhi Fauzi: Three.js; Ilze (Kavi) Briede: 3D modelling and Contact Designer; Marius Kintel: Firmware assist; An Vu: Pod {hardware} duplication; Grace Grothaus: Photogrammetry .
- Artist, curator, and Assistant Professor at York College Jane Tingley will give an artist’s discuss on the opening on January 9 at 7 p.m.
Storytelling Listening Celebration as a part of Artwork’s Birthday | January 17
Tales by South River Seniors had been collected throughout a weekly storytelling circle since September, and edited right into a weekly podcast titled South River Seniors Telling Their Tales. The podcast is broadcast each Saturday at 1 p.m. on NAISA Radio, and accessible on demand from their web site right here. https://naisa.ca/naisa-radio/
At this occasion, you’ll take pleasure in cake as you take heed to highlights from their tales as they keep in mind South River in days lengthy gone. Tales and highlights shall be shared on-line.
Tree Frog Radio: Tree Frog (Sla-dai-aich) reside | February 1
Ben Donoghue will carry out his piece Tree Frog (Sla-dai-aich) reside, utilizing recorded interviews that revolve round a neighborhood radio initiative in British Columbia. In BC’s Gulf Islands, the Tree Frog (Sla-dai-aich) initiative makes use of the bushes as antenna masts for native radio broadcasts.
The efficiency consists of interview, EMF (electromagnetic discipline) and environmental recordings which have been modified and looped in actual time with an analog/digital system, and shall be livestreamed in addition to broadcast via NAISA. For the reside efficiency, there shall be vegan and gluten free goodies accessible on the Café.
Ice Sounds for Ice Follies | February 15 & 16 on Olmstead Seaside, Trout Lake
Ozhaashikwaa — The Ice is Slippery in Ojibway — is the theme for audio items by artists Shaughn Martel, Lina Choi, Genevieve Kiessling, Kyle Vanderlaan and Stephanie Dupuis. The works use ice sounds recorded on Lake Nipissing and Trout Lake, and shall be performed at two listening events as a part of the Ice Follies Competition. The listening events are a collaboration between the Close to North Cell Media Lab in North Bay and New Adventures in Sound Artwork (NAISA).
nineteenth version of the Deep Wi-fi Compilation | Obtainable February 1
The nineteenth version of the Deep Wi-fi Compilation album explores the theme of analyzing our relationship to the pure world via surprising encounters with nature, and usually unheard sounds which are dropped at life. The compilation album is out there after February 1 on NAISA’s Soundcloud web page right here.
Particulars
The Deep Wi-fi Competition of Radio and Transmission Artwork takes place in and across the NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Freeway 124, South River, Ontario.
The net album and NAISA Radio stream are freed from cost; admission varies by occasion.
- Discover extra particulars and ticket/registration hyperlinks [HERE].
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