Where: Online via Zoom

Date: 20 October 2020, 7pm - 8.30/9pm

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Join Lumen and Sasha Engelmann in a seminar focused on creative approaches to environmental sensing. Sasha will speak about her project open-weather, launched earlier this year and co-led with Sophie Dyer, to explore the relationships between bodies, atmospheres & weather systems through experiments in #hamradio , open data & feminist tactics of sensing. After the talk, there will be a Q&A and collective discussion around sensing techniques, and we welcome hearing from participants on their own projects.

Speaker Bio

Sasha Engelmann (she/her) investigates interdisciplinary, feminist and creative approaches to environmental sensing. She is Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University of London where she teaches at the intersection of geography and the arts and humanities. Her new book Sensing Art in the Atmosphere (Routledge, 2020) draws from six years of research with artistic and activist communities to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere. Together with Sophie Dyer she leads the feminist amateur radio project open-weather. 

Supported by Arts Council England

The seminar is supported in part by funding from Arts Council England, which helps Lumen explore of sustainable approaches to online activities at a time when galleries large and small are looking at alternative offerings for networks of artists and audiences.