A Talking Streetlantern, a Sun King, a Crescent Moon on a God’s forehead, Sandwalks against Marilyn Monroe, Captured Faces and Hearts listened to and learned from, Ten Thousand Green Dots illuminating a Helicopter in the Night Sky. Lukas Rehm gave an insight into his work patchedeyes, which focuses on interconnections between observation, agency, power, and technology.

Paula Montecinos Oliva shared a performative activation of Sonic Feminist Fabulation, a multimodal listening practice that explored the crossroads of radio broadcast with live performance, sounds, silences and noise, acting as carriers of a poetic-political argument, to dislocate the linearity of spacetime and language.

ravyfairx invited us to comfortably plunge into a sound bath, performing the first version of their exploration of endless guitar reverbs mixed with recordings of spaces and their unexpected sounds. Their live performance was imagined to serve as an immersive moment where bodies and space communicate and work together.

Jennifer Merlyn Scherler’s research focused on the emotional and empathetic connections humans build with fictional characters, and how, consequently, their deaths are mourned. Their work in progress explored forms of digital grief and how they enable practices of commemorating.

Francisco Gonzáles-Rosa’s research was focused on the subjective experience brought by digital interfaces. The project in development explored various ways in which subjectivity is modeled in online spaces, and within the context of fake news, conspiracy theories, and self-commodification. The figure of the NPC (non-playable character) builds the focal point in observing how political meaning is assigned and coopted by online communities.

Luiza Prado presented an installation featuring key set elements and a first draft of the script for the film and play Empty Calories. The work in progress focused on the increasing disconnection between the realities of food production and climate collapse and its widespread consumption as content on screens. Unfolding as a reality tv show, this project continues Prado’s work on the history of the luxury spice and medical cure-all silphium.