PUBLIC TALK: SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Listening at the Nanoscale . . .

SymbioticA Friday Seminar> Speaker: Joel Ong; Title: Listening at the Nanoscale . . . Time & Location: 3:30-5pm @ SymbioticA;

In the leadup to his final project, SymbioticA Masters student Joel Ong will present the developments and foregrounding ideas of his sound installation “Nanovibrancy”, where he intends to compose with surface vibrations of tympanic membrane samples probed at the nano-scale. His talk will focus on the transdisciplinary potential of the piece, lending from research across the fields of nano-technology, biological art, sound art and architectural acoustics.

Joel is a sound artist and musician working at the intersections of biology, art and auditory culture. He is currently an MSc. Biological Arts candidate at SymbioticA and has recently completed a studio residency at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) where he explored the potential of the stethoscope as a listening device for auditory performance.

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