[spectre] Open Call - Architecture and the Senses Seminar

[Miloš VOJTĚCHOVSKÝ]

Architecture and the Senses - Interdisciplinary Seminar (and Audiovisual
Site Specific Performance)
12*14 October 2018

locations: Center for Architectural Heritage Plasy - National Technical
Museum
Plasy Monastery Monument

Open call for participation

Acoustics - much like light, or space - in physical landscape-
landscape architecture or the landscape itself, actively influences our
emotional state and our way of thinking. Sound orients us in both time
and space, fine-tuning our social connections,  constituting a discourse
which we have begun to revisit only in the last few decades. Similarly
invisible as radiation or microchemical contamination, acoustic
pollution is a factor with a palpable impact on the crisis-state of
today*s environment, though we are inclined to underestimate its
urgency, and consistently fail to develop political, social and
technical tools to limit the broadly diffused impact of (acoustic)
pollution.

The goal of this interdisciplinary gathering of specialists and the
interested public is to foster a discussion about the relationship
between architecture, art, ethology, and social and environmental
issues, to focus on intersections between aesthetics, ethics, acoustics
of architecture, geometry, natural science, the humanities and art. 

Sacral architecture has put a great deal of emphasis on spatial
acoustics, resonance of human voice or musical instrument. The acoustics
of the Baroque convent of the Plasy Monastery is an exceptional example
of this forgotten art. The gathering will take place in Mathey's Hall,
and is hosted by the Center for Architectural Heritage Plasy. It is open
to heritage preservationists, architects, musicians, natural and
humanist scientists, researchers, artists, as well as to the general
public.

The framework expands the traditional understanding of the model of
architecture as the sole realm intervening between the human species and
its environment and strives to include an extra-human perspective, such
as the architecture of animals, insects, or birds.

The event is being prepared in continuity with the launch of the Hermit
Foundation Archive of the Center for Metamedia Plasy and the Soundworms
Ecology Gathering of 2017, both part of the Agosto Foundations
Mediateka, as well as the launch of the Czech translation of Raymond
Murray Schafer*s book The New Soundscape.
 
https://agosto-foundation.org/soundworms-ecology-gathering-collection
 

The list of presenters includes architects, environmentalists,
sociologist, natural scientists, artists and ecologists. 
 
A detailed program and list of confirmed participants will be announced
on August 30.

Please send the short proposal for your contribution until August 15th
to: sound at agosto-foundation.org

(The capacity of the seminar is limited by the capacity of the Mathey
lecture hall.)

Contacts and Information:
Miloš Vojtěchovský, Center of Audiovisual Studies FAMU Prague
contact: sound at agosto-foundation.org
+420 608 571 881

Vít Bohal, Agosto foundation
E-mail: sound at agosto-foundation.org

Radoslava Schmelzová, Agosto Foundation
E-mail: rschmelzova at gmail.com

Organized by Agosto Foundation, Vojtěšská 196/18,  110 00 Praha 1
Co-organizer: Plasy sobě z.s. association

Cooperating institutions: Region of Pilsen, Národní památkový ústav,
Center for Building Heritage Plasy, Film and Television Faculty of AMU,
Faculty of Art and Design of the J.E. Purkyně University.

This project takes place with the financial support of the region of
Plzeň.

https://agosto-foundation.org/architecture-and-the-senses
http://muzeum-plasy.cz/en
https://www.klaster-plasy.eu/en
 
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