Polyrhythmia Montreal
Images from the final install at the Differential Mobilities conference in Montreal. The video is a really rough cut, better versions to follow.
Jen Southern
mobilities art practice and research
What is Mobilities?
Last Friday I was interviewed for the Differential Mobilities conference where they are hosting interviews and asking the question “What is Mobilities”. Great job on putting the video together! >> Continue reading
window tappers
More testing of the tappers on the window. In the distance you can see Mont Royal – the audio we recorded for the app yesterday is from points from this Continue reading
XX files interview
Yesterday Kim Sawchuk and I were interviewed by Valerie Walker about the Differential Mobilties conference & Polyrhythmia on CKUT radio, on a great show called the XX files, listen here. Continue reading
brown bag creature
Playing with different materials and sounds today. This is Dan walking, controlling a motor in a paper bag, I really like the way it purrs, in contrast to the harder Continue reading
recording app audio
I have three great interns working with me this week, Natalie, Laura and Dan. Today we were out and about recording sound for the mobile app that is part of Continue reading
Montreal Install
I’m in Montreal for the Differential Mobilities conference, installing my new work ‘Polyrhythmia’, a series of machines that tap and whirr in response to live GPS data. I’m installing the Continue reading
aerial landscape paintings
I saw three paintings by Rafal Topolewski at the ‘As Far As We Got’ exhibition at the International 3 in Manchester last Friday. Having spent a long time looking at Continue reading
Looking and listening
Reading “A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney” by Martin Gayford. The book is partly about Hockney’s huge paintings of Yorkshire landscapes, but he also talks about how he uses Continue reading
extended senses & listening
In an ongoing connection between the mobilities lab at Lancaster University, and the mobile media lab at Concordia University in Montreal, we met for a skype/coffee this afternoon to discuss Continue reading
