cosmoimaginaries
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Cosmoimaginaries | Online Sessions
Cosmoimaginaries works to grow relationships for outer space research across Oceania. Part of the commitment around Cosmoimaginaries is to the ecological commons, with an emphasis on free or affordable engagements that open up ideas across research with vibrant networks and varied publics through dialogues, events, workshops, exhibitions and publicly accessible research. We aim to share meetings online where we can, though there may be edits with respect to different cultural protocols for sharing local knowledge.
Planetary communication: Listening to animals in the Second Space Age
with
Arik Kershenbaum8pm NZDT / 6pm AEDT / 4pm Singapore / 10am CET / 9am BST
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Online Meeting on Zoom
Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum explores how animal communication, from wolf howls to whale song, offers insight into listening as an ecological and planetary practice.In this dialogue Dr. Kershenbaum explores how animal communication, from wolf howls to whalesong, offers insight into communication and listening as ecological and planetary practice.
This conversation is a fitting coda to the weekend of Reveil 12, a project that many of us in the network have been participating in over the last days, tuning in to live microphones around the world. Organised by Soundcamp + Locus Sonus + Wave Farm, Reveil streams the dawn chorus from mics across the planet over a 25 hour period.
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This conversation is a fitting coda to the weekend of Reveil 12, a project that many of us in the network have been participating in over the last days, tuning in to live microphones around the world. Organised by Soundcamp + Locus Sonus + Wave Farm, Reveil streams the dawn chorus from mics across the planet over a 25 hour period.
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Earthly & extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia
Gabriela Rǎdulescu in conversation with Nina Czegledy
Thur, 20th March, 2025
4pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
Fri, 21st March, 2025
9am NZDT/7am AEDT
4pm EST / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET
Fri, 21st March, 2025
9am NZDT/7am AEDT
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Online Meeting on Zoom
As Soviet radio astronomers sought to establish a scientific framework for communicating with extraterrestrial civilisations, their Armenian counterparts brought a distinct imaginary: one that linked cosmic contact to Armenia’s ancient astronomical heritage.Gabriela presents CETI as a relational and interdisciplinary endeavour, entangled in Soviet science-based imaginaries, the history of the space race and the international astronautical community, and political upheavals through the Prague Spring. This blending of scientific and historical imaginaries, combining the emerging field of radio astronomy with millennia-old traditions of celestial observation, positioned Armenia as an astronomical civilisation with deep temporal roots. These powerful imaginaries continue to shape contemporary perspectives on the earthly and extraterrestrial today.
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Yearning Earth, Magnetic Skies
Intercreate
Sat, 15th June, 2024
8am Sydney / 10am Aotearoa
Fri, 14th June, 2024
6pm Montreal
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Online Meeting on Zoom
Over the last weeks rare and powerful geomagnetic storms remind us that we live under one sky. Veils of pink, purple and green are rippling in the night sky above Aotearoa, visible as far north as Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-Tara, with aurora sightings reported all around the planet by members across the network in Canada and Scotland. We have a special session live from Pōneke, sharing stories and myths of the Northern and Southern Lights, the Aurora Australis, or Tahu-nui-a-rangi in te reo Māori, meaning ‘the great burning in the sky.’
All welcome to listen and share stories.
⋆ ⁺₊⋆ Astro-Archipelago: Outer Space imaginaries in Yogyakarta
With Irene Agrivina in conversation with Intercreate Thu, 25th April, 2024
7am Canada / 12pm Scotland / 1pm Amsterdam / 9pm Sydney / 11pm NZ
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Established in 1998, HONF emerged as a response to the social and political turmoil against the nepotism and corruption prevalent during the Suharto authoritarian dictatorship in Indonesia. HONF works with cultural imaginaries to radically reframe conversations around astro ecology, space science, space exploration and culture itself. HONF’s creative collaborations with artists, scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists and communities expand understandings of the universe by combining the “tools and ideas of science, and those of art.” Speculative creative work, and initiatives like the annual UFO festival and the ‘International SETI Conference’ of Yogyakarta, and ISSS – Indonesia Space Science Society - open alternative, imaginative frameworks for the exploration of space from the perspective of citizens.
Open systems advocate, technologist, artist and educator, Irene Agrivina is one of the founding members and current directors of HONF honf.org. Irene Agrivina will present her engagements with media art, cultural imaginaries, space futures and SETI.
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਼ Practice as a Portal: Fresh Dialogues between Earth and Outer Space
With Willi Lempert, Daniela De Paulis and
Juan Francisco Salazar
Tue, 23rd April, 2024
7am Canada / 12pm Scotland / 1pm Amsterdam / 9pm Sydney / 11pm NZ
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This conversation brings together artist Daniela De Paulis, Dr. Willi Lempert and Professor Juan Francisco Salazar to explore living connections across their research and creative work, including storytelling, scenarios, participatory practices and situated knowledges.
What kind of fresh openings do emerging practices invite? How can urgent calls to decolonise and temper the ambitious extractive energies of the new space age be addressed amidst ecological crises and multiplying conflicts?
The panelists share experimental, creative and transcultural approaches to outer space futures and the search for life beyond Earth, refreshing approaches to outer space research and SETI—the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Program 2 opening