Workshop with Jessica Thompson
Borderline. Sound walk.
This workshop is linked to the exhibition Environment Encounter Exploration and forms part of the welcome sessions for undergraduate students. It will contribute to enriching the work of Thompson, a Canadian artist featured in the exhibition.
Date: September 20, 20
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour
EXCLUSIVE ACTIVITY FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Those who register will receive all the information by email.
Facilitating the activity:
Jessica, Kevin, and Kiera online (collaborators on the Borderline project)
Marian Moreno, Manuel Gamaza, and Renata Alvarez in person (curators of the Entorno Encuentro Exploración exhibition)
Workshop objectives:
● Provide students with the opportunity to participate in a soundwalk and create a sound collage while walking as a group along the chosen route.
● Teach students how to use the Borderline app;
● Encourage students to consider how sounds can be indicative of other urban, natural, and human processes.
For this event, participants must bring an iPhone with an internet or data connection and the Borderline app downloaded.
Those who have registered to participate in the workshop will be divided into three groups. They will receive an email with instructions on how to download the app and which group they belong to.
Each group will be guided by one of the exhibition curators and will have virtual support from a member of the Borderline team.
The Borderline team has selected three routes around the University of Navarra that are within a 15-minute walking distance. Each curator will be assigned to one of the routes. Each route will specify 2-3 categories that will be the focal point of their route (musical sounds, animals, sounds of ambiguous origin, etc.).
The artist and her Borderlineproject team will download the data collected during the sound walks and use it to produce a collaborative sound map that will be presented in the exhibition. Environment Encounter Exploration, in the Tower Room of the Museum.
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Jessica ThompsonMultimedia artist working in sound, performance, and mobile technologies. Investigates the ways in which sound reveals spatial and social conditions within cities, and how the creative use of urban data can generate new modes of citizen participation. She is an associate professor of hybrid media at the University of Waterloo, where she resides. |
