Deadline for applications is 15th September of 2018
https://cesse.mome.hu/
Central European Society for Soundscape Ecology
Founding Conference of CESSE / Budapest November of 2018
Open Call
28th November – 1st December 2018.
Organized by
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME)
With the contribution of
Budapest Music Center (BMC) & Spatial Sound Institute (SSI, NL/H)
Open Call for papers and sound performances at the founding conference of
Central European Society for Soundscape Ecology (CESSE)
CESSE Conference #1 is dedicated to the establishment of a new organization
for convening and coordinating energies towards the improvement and saving of
our region’s soundscapes. Keywords are: contemporary art, science and
technology, focusing on livability and sustainability.
Acoustics and soundscapes deeply shape the processes of the human mind and the
entire biosphere, and sound is thus determinative in our relationship to
people, animals, vegetation, and the environment. Technological equipment
allows us to harvest and document more and more information from our
surroundings. However, we still understand very little about the complex
relationships between landscapes and soundscapes, about the ways how acoustics
influence living organisms, societies, networks, including the human.
CESSE Conference #1 is a three-day meeting bringing together artist and
academics mainly from the geopolitical area of the Central and SouthEast
Europe, who are involved in ecology, theory and acoustics to discuss and
exchange ideas concerning such questions as:
• How our acoustic perception of soundscapes, the technical methods of
field recording, and the platforms for their subsequent distribution help to
increase public awareness of environmental and political issues? How
effectively can such a practice expand both a subjective and a wider
socio-cultural understanding of biological, social, technological and
psychological ecologies?
• What methods and strategies can we appropriate to effectively and
responsibly influence the course of environmental and geopolitical
transformations, both on the local and global scales?
• Is it possible to foster a sustainable network through which artists,
academics and social activists can make use of a common language in order to
act and communicate more effectively, allowing them to further explore and
influence fields such as acoustic ecology, eco-politics, eco-psychology,
cultural cartography, and critical theory and to expand them in the public
domain?
• The intent of the conference is to review and possibly foster new or
already existing professional and institutional networks within Central Europe,
make them more durable and sustainable in a dynamically changing world.
The Society proposes to be part of the worldwide activities coordinated and
guided by World Forum of Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). We will concentrate on the
Central European region, specially: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary,
Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, but the conference is open for all.
The registration fee of the conference is HUF 12.000 / € 40. (For students: 50%)
Participants will be guided to meals and accomodations at their own costs.
We would welcome contributions on:
Acoustic ecology
Acoustic space and psychoacoustics
Acoustic communities
Audio archives
Bioacoustics
Creation of positive soundscapes
Ecoacoustics
Environmental aesthetics
Environmental health
Environmental politics (policy/legislation)
Field recording-related composition (soundscape, electroacoustic, acoustic,
improvisation)
Heritage and memory of sound
Pauline Oliveros – her heritage
Policies for noise control
Social, cultural and environmental sustainability
Sonic perception
Sound, place and identity
Soundwalks
Spatial sound system composition
The study of soundscapes as social and political intervention
Urban design, planning and architecture
Urban soundscapes
Submission
Papers: CV + an abstract of max. 1000 characters.
Deadline for applications is 15th September of 2018. Please contact us at the
following email address: ce...@mome.hu
Please note, we can only schedule papers or works where at least one of the
authors has registered for the conference.
Curatorial board
Fritz, Darko (Grey Area/Siva zona – space for contemporary and media art.
Korčula)
Hajnóczy, Csaba (Moholy-Nagy University of Arts, Budapest)
Kovács, Balázs (University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts)
Mrkus, Pavel (Faculty of Art and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University
in Ústí nad Labem) (to be confirmed)
Ristić, Manja (Auropolis Association of Multimedia Artists, Beograd)
Szigetvári, Andrea (Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, Electronic Music
Media Art)
Vojtechovsky, Milos (Center for Audiovisual Studies, Film and Television
Faculty AMU, Praha)
Weiperth, András (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Ecological
Research)
Wieczorek, Sławomir dr. (Univ. of Wrocław, Institute of Musicology)
Zorman, Brane (CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, Ljubljana)
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