Claudia Augustat is an anthropologist and since 2004 curator for South American Collections at the Weltmuseum Wien in Austria. Her research focuses on collections from the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, material culture and cultural memory, on collaborative curatorship and the decolonization of museum praxis. She is head of the EU co-founded Creative Europe Project TAKING CARE. Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Space of Care.
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Raviv Ganchrow (US/IL/NL)
is an artist and sound researcher based in Amsterdam, NL. His work researches the interdependencies between sound, place and listening, aspects of which are explored through installations, writing, and the development of pressure-forming and vibration-sensing technologies. His installations examine context-dependent sites of contemporary listening relating to environmental infrasound (Long-Wave Synthesis, Dark Ecology, Kirkeness, NO and Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, NL), mineral piezoelectricity (Quartz Attention, Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA), anechoic chambers (Padded Sounds, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, DE) and materiality of radio transmission (Radio Plays Itself, Forecast for Shipping and Knallfunken) in collaboration with ORF Kunstradio, AT, BBC Radio 4, UK, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur respectively, DE. Recent installations develop in-situ circuits relating to human-mineral binds (Agora Circuit, Tuned City / Onassis Cultural Foundation, Messene, GR) and telluric currents (Westhafen Ground-Electric, Singuhr at ZK/U Berlin, DE). Raviv Ganchrow is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, University of the Arts, The Hague, NL.
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Gerd Sielfeld (CL)
dedicated to understand the nature of deformation in the Andes mountain range, Gerd works by combining perspectives of structural and seismotectonic geology. With experience in active volcanic chains (Southern Andes and Southern Andes), he is the scientific coordinator of the Prisma Austral Foundation, developing a multidisciplinary approach in the canals and fjords of the Magallanes region, bringing together teams of biology, geophysics, geology, art and archeology. He has participated in the creation of documentary series for the dissemination of earth sciences and has collaborated with artists in the creation of the first scientific mural in Chile.
Its fundamental motivation is the creation of knowledge for the responsible conservation of pristine land- and seascapes.
Alfredo Prieto Iglesias (CL)
Archaeologist, professor at Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Professor of Philosophy at the UdeC, MSc. in Archeology at the University of Cambridge, Diploma in Advanced Studies in Prehistoric Archeology at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, PhD in prehistoric archeology at the Universidad de Barcelona and Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He has focused his research work in the field of prehistoric archeology and the Fuego-Patagónica ethnography. He currently works at the Centro de Investigación GAIA Antártica (UMAG)
Carsten Stabenow (DE)
works as independent curator, producer, communication designer and artist on the intersection of artistic production and mediation. He studied communications and postgraduate interdisciplinary studies in Berlin and is initiator of diverse festivals, formats and initiatives within the context of new media, art + science and sound art.
Carsten Stabenow is initiator and artistic director of Tuned City and co-founder of the Berlin art and media production platform dock. As an artist he has realised several installations and performed internationally.
In his work he is interested especially in physical, social and political parameters of space.
Christian Espinoza (CL)
architect and artist, working, researching and experimenting with territories under the esthetic of dark ecologies. Currently, its production revolves around the collision points between biological and electromagnetic corridors, and the liminal sites in the large lax, discontinuous, heterogeneous and multipolar areas of the extractivism macro-regions. His sound research includes listening as an active and political action, a technology and, in many cases, an extension of the ecological battlefield. His work has been presented at different festivals, spaces and galleries in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Brasil and France.
Victor Mazón (ES)
His work exposes the unheard and unseen—addressing the inaccessible and experiencing vulnerability and awareness—to the viewer. Perception and altered states are key concepts in his performances through the use of sound or light. His work materializes in three main fields: actions or site-specific performances through experimental processes, exhibitions as consequences of previous actions, and collaborative works through seminars to form a communal dialog.
Nicolas Spencer (CL/AT)
is a sound artist with an academic background as a forestry engineer (Master’s degree, University of Chile) and multimedia art (Master’s degree, University of Chile).
His work focuses on ways of understanding nature in all the depth and complexity. His installations mix the massiveness of its components (rocks, metals, gravity, wind, etc.) with the fragility and immateriality of sound.
Spencer’s artistic practice is contaminating (and contaminated by) other areas of knowledge as a way of generating alternative epistemological and aesthetic perspectives.