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Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
We live in a world of reckoning. In history, in politics, in culture, oppressive paradigms are be... more We live in a world of reckoning. In history, in politics, in culture, oppressive paradigms are being overturned and new perspectives are unfolding. One significant site(s) of reckoning are the modern, imperial, and colonial constructions of the environment that have served to silence and limit the voice of the non-human world, and our collective understanding of it. In the spirit of this moment, I begin this conversation with a powerful reconsideration:everything is sentient—soil, plants, algae, fungi, trees, birds, worms, rocks, and more. Sophisticated and rootbound, trees cooperate with their kin and communicate their needs. Remembering past events, perceiving and mounting defenses from impending droughts and fire seasons, trees have inseparable bonds with others (Simard 2021). Similarly, lichen are mutually arranged in complex relations to help one another survive and thrive, and provide complex nutrients to the ground and tree lined canopies of Douglas fir, cedars, and spruce (W...
Ecocene: Cappadocia journal of environmental humanities, Dec 28, 2022
Carbon bodies are nomads. Time moves through them, and eventually, the cells, fibers,and organs w... more Carbon bodies are nomads. Time moves through them, and eventually, the cells, fibers,and organs wilt, rot,and die, becoming fodder for something new. This perpetual recycling of physical matter excretes tendrils of smoke, dirt, dust,and spores. As bodies are buried, burnt,or sent into space, their traces and cellular legacies become absorbed in everything and exist everywhere all at once on this celestial body. In this way, human, vegetal,and more-than-human bodies become sustenance and cellular traces for generations.
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
Bodies live in a continual state of encounter, transformation, and evolutionary process. Multidim... more Bodies live in a continual state of encounter, transformation, and evolutionary process. Multidimensional and hungry, bodies are drawn to each other, and form bonds,with other molecules and structures. To survive, they perceive, itemize, commodify,and deplete essential resources from the air, water, and ground. In turn, they create new lifeforms and ways of being. Down to the atom, these forms are resilient and mutable.
Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, May 1, 2017
Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philoso... more Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philosophers have described presence simply as a state of being there, or in improvisation, the here and now. We explore presence by examining performers' experiences in an improvisational, telematic performance, Presence in a Box: Crossing Liminal Spaces (see Figure 1). Through our analysis of this performance we define the concept of ''Threaded Presence'' which we bridge to existing literature in ''Situated'' and ''Extended Presence.'' We discuss the role of technology in creating threaded presence by acting as an additional performer, adding a layer of glitch and unpredictability to a performance that requires negotiation from the entire team. We suggest that technology does not need to be transparent in order to experience presence in a performance space and focus on three main components of experiencing presence: creating a container of presence, blending boundaries of time and space, and implementing restraints. It is the collision of these elements that brings a new sense of agency into performance and contributes to one's experience of threaded presence.
Designing Interactions for Music and Sound, 2022
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
The repetition of walking allows for an eventual disconnection from the apparatuses at play in da... more The repetition of walking allows for an eventual disconnection from the apparatuses at play in daily life. Distractions are avoided by means of focusing only on what I am seeing, when I will break, where I might find water, what I will eat, and where I will sleep. In this endeavor, a headspace of increased awareness of the body, its perceptual mechanisms, and its surroundings becomes more readily reached.
Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition
Bodies are interfaces, thresholds, vestibules, and gateways capable of hosting, carrying and birt... more Bodies are interfaces, thresholds, vestibules, and gateways capable of hosting, carrying and birthing other life forms. Occupying indeterminable positions, interfacing with multidimensional borders, cultures, media, and ecologies; mediating internal and external inputs/relations - bodies feel vibrations, perceive and collect information, remediate, respond, negotiate expectations, and make connections through the limbs, eyes, ears, skin, cells and beyond. Scholars, critics, and theorists describe this complex interfacing as a multispecies relationship consisting of deep histories, continually re-forming and transitioning into something new (Dooren et al., 2016). What Eben Kirksey deems as the microorganism, Wolbachia, a post-human actor that meshes a variety of species together that exist in different time frames and realities (Kirksey, 2018). For this exhibition, we introduce Mothering Bacteria: A Speculative Forecast of the Body as an Interface (2018), a multichannel artwork with an embedded AI that interacts with bacteria, as it grows in real-time.
Ecocene Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities Cappadocia University, Dec 30, 2020
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, 2021
About the Artist prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement... more About the Artist prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and sitespecific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. sun hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Coop Radio. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.
Foundations in Sound Design for Interactive Media, 2019
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2019
This paper explores how sound-based tangible toys can encourage children to engage with sounds in... more This paper explores how sound-based tangible toys can encourage children to engage with sounds in their environment through active listening and collaboration with their peers. Twenty-eight children, aged 3 to 4.5 years old, explored sound in their environment through three toy prototypes. One toy focused on hearing sounds in relation to their environment; such as traffic and children playing. Another toy explored the recording and playback of their own sounds, being "caught" in a racket and blown out. The third toy explored a combination of shaking in sounds, stirring them to manipulate them, and pouring the mix out. This project uses a mixed-methods approach and is presented as a step towards further studies comparing toys with different approaches to sound.
Echoes of Balance and Push is an immersive video art installation that explores how a new mother’... more Echoes of Balance and Push is an immersive video art installation that explores how a new mother’s daily life relates to tumultuous and unpredictable experiences of weather. This paper describes an interdisciplinary collaboration between the authors, who are artists and researchers. The researchers in tandem with the artist explored the creative process and experience of viewing Echoes of Balance and Push. Through the lens of an iPhone, an improvisatory experience of maneuvering a large weather balloon in the open elements creates the environment for exploring struggle in relationships to motherhood. We describe the design process and results of the work through concepts of Experience Prototyping: using methods of Rasaboxes, RSVP Cycles, ritual interaction, improvisation, and Bodyweather performances. Echoes of Balance and Push presents an exploration of improvisatory performance art through a perspective of design prototyping in order to highlight the creative process of a sensoria...
Doing Research in Sound Design, 2021
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, 2021
Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the i... more Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the inbetween in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and sitespecific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. sun hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Coop Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2017
Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philoso... more Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philosophers have described presence simply as a state of being there, or in improvisation, the here and now. We explore presence by examining performers’ experiences in an improvisational, telematic performance, Presence in a Box: Crossing Liminal Spaces (see Figure 1). Through our analysis of this performance we define the concept of “Threaded Presence” which we bridge to existing literature in “Situated” and “Extended Presence.” We discuss the role of technology in creating threaded presence by acting as an additional performer, adding a layer of glitch and unpredictability to a performance that requires negotiation from the entire team. We suggest that technology does not need to be transparent in order to experience presence in a performance space and focus on three main components of experiencing presence: creating a container of presence, blending boundaries of time and space, and implem...
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2017
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2017
The boundaries between physical and virtual spaces are becoming more blurred in our everyday live... more The boundaries between physical and virtual spaces are becoming more blurred in our everyday lives with the advent of wearable action cameras, virtual reality technologies, and algorithmicallyled audience interactions. Artists and creatives have been at the forefront of exploring these new technologies; however, little literature exists that reflects on best practices for navigating this new complex space. We reflect on our experiences in creating and participating in what we refer to as 'hybrid multimodal performances' or performances that blend physical and virtual spaces. We propose a framework of aesthetic choices we have implemented to seamlessly blend physical and virtual entities. We consider aspects such as the interaction between the camera and performer, the integration of multiple conceptual spaces, the changing relation between the artist and the work, and the multiple transformations of shape that occur when transitioning between physical and virtual spaces.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, 2016
spaceDisplaced: Investigating Presence Through Mediated Participatory Environments is an interdis... more spaceDisplaced: Investigating Presence Through Mediated Participatory Environments is an interdisciplinary telepresence performance that linked four physical spaces. We conducted a participatory telepresence performance to explore how the experience of presence in separate spaces is influenced by the scale, function, sonic potential and accessibility of the space that each performer inhabits. The performance served as a form of experience modeling, a design methodology put forth by Schiphorst and Andersen (2004) that uses somatic, theater, and dance practices to model and structure experiences that can inform interaction design. In this paper we describe our exploration of personal, social and environmental forms of presence in the performance. We demonstrate how our findings led to new insights on how to stage the experience of presence. We apply these findings in Presence in a Box: Crossing Liminal Spaces, an interactive public performance where participants can transfer the experience of presence between small and large spaces.
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
We live in a world of reckoning. In history, in politics, in culture, oppressive paradigms are be... more We live in a world of reckoning. In history, in politics, in culture, oppressive paradigms are being overturned and new perspectives are unfolding. One significant site(s) of reckoning are the modern, imperial, and colonial constructions of the environment that have served to silence and limit the voice of the non-human world, and our collective understanding of it. In the spirit of this moment, I begin this conversation with a powerful reconsideration:everything is sentient—soil, plants, algae, fungi, trees, birds, worms, rocks, and more. Sophisticated and rootbound, trees cooperate with their kin and communicate their needs. Remembering past events, perceiving and mounting defenses from impending droughts and fire seasons, trees have inseparable bonds with others (Simard 2021). Similarly, lichen are mutually arranged in complex relations to help one another survive and thrive, and provide complex nutrients to the ground and tree lined canopies of Douglas fir, cedars, and spruce (W...
Ecocene: Cappadocia journal of environmental humanities, Dec 28, 2022
Carbon bodies are nomads. Time moves through them, and eventually, the cells, fibers,and organs w... more Carbon bodies are nomads. Time moves through them, and eventually, the cells, fibers,and organs wilt, rot,and die, becoming fodder for something new. This perpetual recycling of physical matter excretes tendrils of smoke, dirt, dust,and spores. As bodies are buried, burnt,or sent into space, their traces and cellular legacies become absorbed in everything and exist everywhere all at once on this celestial body. In this way, human, vegetal,and more-than-human bodies become sustenance and cellular traces for generations.
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
Bodies live in a continual state of encounter, transformation, and evolutionary process. Multidim... more Bodies live in a continual state of encounter, transformation, and evolutionary process. Multidimensional and hungry, bodies are drawn to each other, and form bonds,with other molecules and structures. To survive, they perceive, itemize, commodify,and deplete essential resources from the air, water, and ground. In turn, they create new lifeforms and ways of being. Down to the atom, these forms are resilient and mutable.
Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, May 1, 2017
Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philoso... more Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philosophers have described presence simply as a state of being there, or in improvisation, the here and now. We explore presence by examining performers' experiences in an improvisational, telematic performance, Presence in a Box: Crossing Liminal Spaces (see Figure 1). Through our analysis of this performance we define the concept of ''Threaded Presence'' which we bridge to existing literature in ''Situated'' and ''Extended Presence.'' We discuss the role of technology in creating threaded presence by acting as an additional performer, adding a layer of glitch and unpredictability to a performance that requires negotiation from the entire team. We suggest that technology does not need to be transparent in order to experience presence in a performance space and focus on three main components of experiencing presence: creating a container of presence, blending boundaries of time and space, and implementing restraints. It is the collision of these elements that brings a new sense of agency into performance and contributes to one's experience of threaded presence.
Designing Interactions for Music and Sound, 2022
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University
The repetition of walking allows for an eventual disconnection from the apparatuses at play in da... more The repetition of walking allows for an eventual disconnection from the apparatuses at play in daily life. Distractions are avoided by means of focusing only on what I am seeing, when I will break, where I might find water, what I will eat, and where I will sleep. In this endeavor, a headspace of increased awareness of the body, its perceptual mechanisms, and its surroundings becomes more readily reached.
Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition
Bodies are interfaces, thresholds, vestibules, and gateways capable of hosting, carrying and birt... more Bodies are interfaces, thresholds, vestibules, and gateways capable of hosting, carrying and birthing other life forms. Occupying indeterminable positions, interfacing with multidimensional borders, cultures, media, and ecologies; mediating internal and external inputs/relations - bodies feel vibrations, perceive and collect information, remediate, respond, negotiate expectations, and make connections through the limbs, eyes, ears, skin, cells and beyond. Scholars, critics, and theorists describe this complex interfacing as a multispecies relationship consisting of deep histories, continually re-forming and transitioning into something new (Dooren et al., 2016). What Eben Kirksey deems as the microorganism, Wolbachia, a post-human actor that meshes a variety of species together that exist in different time frames and realities (Kirksey, 2018). For this exhibition, we introduce Mothering Bacteria: A Speculative Forecast of the Body as an Interface (2018), a multichannel artwork with an embedded AI that interacts with bacteria, as it grows in real-time.
Ecocene Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities Cappadocia University, Dec 30, 2020
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, 2021
About the Artist prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement... more About the Artist prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and sitespecific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. sun hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Coop Radio. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.
Foundations in Sound Design for Interactive Media, 2019
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2019
This paper explores how sound-based tangible toys can encourage children to engage with sounds in... more This paper explores how sound-based tangible toys can encourage children to engage with sounds in their environment through active listening and collaboration with their peers. Twenty-eight children, aged 3 to 4.5 years old, explored sound in their environment through three toy prototypes. One toy focused on hearing sounds in relation to their environment; such as traffic and children playing. Another toy explored the recording and playback of their own sounds, being "caught" in a racket and blown out. The third toy explored a combination of shaking in sounds, stirring them to manipulate them, and pouring the mix out. This project uses a mixed-methods approach and is presented as a step towards further studies comparing toys with different approaches to sound.
Echoes of Balance and Push is an immersive video art installation that explores how a new mother’... more Echoes of Balance and Push is an immersive video art installation that explores how a new mother’s daily life relates to tumultuous and unpredictable experiences of weather. This paper describes an interdisciplinary collaboration between the authors, who are artists and researchers. The researchers in tandem with the artist explored the creative process and experience of viewing Echoes of Balance and Push. Through the lens of an iPhone, an improvisatory experience of maneuvering a large weather balloon in the open elements creates the environment for exploring struggle in relationships to motherhood. We describe the design process and results of the work through concepts of Experience Prototyping: using methods of Rasaboxes, RSVP Cycles, ritual interaction, improvisation, and Bodyweather performances. Echoes of Balance and Push presents an exploration of improvisatory performance art through a perspective of design prototyping in order to highlight the creative process of a sensoria...
Doing Research in Sound Design, 2021
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, 2021
Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the i... more Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the inbetween in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and sitespecific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. sun hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Coop Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2017
Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philoso... more Presence is a prominent component of our conscious human experience. Many researchers and philosophers have described presence simply as a state of being there, or in improvisation, the here and now. We explore presence by examining performers’ experiences in an improvisational, telematic performance, Presence in a Box: Crossing Liminal Spaces (see Figure 1). Through our analysis of this performance we define the concept of “Threaded Presence” which we bridge to existing literature in “Situated” and “Extended Presence.” We discuss the role of technology in creating threaded presence by acting as an additional performer, adding a layer of glitch and unpredictability to a performance that requires negotiation from the entire team. We suggest that technology does not need to be transparent in order to experience presence in a performance space and focus on three main components of experiencing presence: creating a container of presence, blending boundaries of time and space, and implem...
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2017
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2017
The boundaries between physical and virtual spaces are becoming more blurred in our everyday live... more The boundaries between physical and virtual spaces are becoming more blurred in our everyday lives with the advent of wearable action cameras, virtual reality technologies, and algorithmicallyled audience interactions. Artists and creatives have been at the forefront of exploring these new technologies; however, little literature exists that reflects on best practices for navigating this new complex space. We reflect on our experiences in creating and participating in what we refer to as 'hybrid multimodal performances' or performances that blend physical and virtual spaces. We propose a framework of aesthetic choices we have implemented to seamlessly blend physical and virtual entities. We consider aspects such as the interaction between the camera and performer, the integration of multiple conceptual spaces, the changing relation between the artist and the work, and the multiple transformations of shape that occur when transitioning between physical and virtual spaces.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, 2016
spaceDisplaced: Investigating Presence Through Mediated Participatory Environments is an interdis... more spaceDisplaced: Investigating Presence Through Mediated Participatory Environments is an interdisciplinary telepresence performance that linked four physical spaces. We conducted a participatory telepresence performance to explore how the experience of presence in separate spaces is influenced by the scale, function, sonic potential and accessibility of the space that each performer inhabits. The performance served as a form of experience modeling, a design methodology put forth by Schiphorst and Andersen (2004) that uses somatic, theater, and dance practices to model and structure experiences that can inform interaction design. In this paper we describe our exploration of personal, social and environmental forms of presence in the performance. We demonstrate how our findings led to new insights on how to stage the experience of presence. We apply these findings in Presence in a Box: Crossing Liminal Spaces, an interactive public performance where participants can transfer the experience of presence between small and large spaces.