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2021 Theme: Multiple Ecologies, Diverse Ontologies
Supported by the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Plymouth, run by PhD Students

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The E-Book for the 2021 MJMSF Symposium is now available in 3 formats on our homepage! https://t.co/zQpu7gfdO4 @KatePaxman @photoflounder @arts_institute @PlymUni

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The Symposium is tomorrow (and the next day)! Sept 28 and 29. Schedule, presentations, and tickets are all at https://t.co/RZZYBzffsA . We'll also livestream at https://t.co/cdUUFR7U6U for anyone not able to join the zoom

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Featured Presenter Ali Kenefick is showing her film "Beef in a Blender" and work of speculative design "Meaty Prepositions" (a collection of eccentric meat-based recipes) at Carelton University's Food Matters conference. You can see the exhibition at https://t.co/vKMvstL8tR

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Less than one week to go until the symposium! Watch the presentations in advance on the website, bring your questions, and be prepared for great discussions!

Get your tickets at the link in bio

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The last featured presenters' presentations are live now on our website and youtube! Check out Nik Forrest and Kate Paxman! https://t.co/YjFkVtGCVP

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Just 14 days (a mere fortnight) until the Symposium! The daily schedule is now posted to our site. https://t.co/RZZYBzwQRa

Hope to see you all there!

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They are currently working on a PhD at Concordia University in the interdisciplinary humanities program.

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Featured presenter Nik Forrest is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal.

Images:
Sonic Thresholds (black box), performance, Concordia 2018 (photo by Mel Hogan)

Wild Intimacy: Light to Sound , installation at Oboro, Montreal 2018 (photo by Romain Guilbault)

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Their recent projects explore the ecological potentials of sound and listening as techniques to heighten attunement to entangled human and non-human materials, bodies and forces, and to the interconnected affective, social and environmental relations.

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Just posted! The next featured interview pair, Sanaz Sohrabi and Livia Daza-Paris. Check their presentations out on our website or on youtube. https://t.co/cFrtpnqxKa

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Her presentation is Musicking with Tapyra’yawara: Ecomusicologies from the Amazon Rainforest and is live on our youtube and website!
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Panelist Karine Aguiar de Sousa Saunier is a recording artist and researcher born and raised in the city of Manaus, nested in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

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She has a masters in Environmental Sciences and Sustainability in the Amazon (Universidade Federal do Amazonas) and now is a PhD candidate at Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP).

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She is developing a research project with Amazonian Ecomusicologies under Suzel Ana Reily’s supervision and funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

https://t.co/wYZZiP5WFl

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Panelist Melanie King has an exhibition open now at Big Day Film Collective in the Greater Philadelphia area!

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The first set of our videos have launched! https://t.co/w9cNaOTzOy You can begin a dialogue with the presenters on their individual youtube videos!

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Her presentation is in collaboration with Deepta Sateesh and is titled "Wet Ontologies".⁠
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Laura Denning is a Bath Spa University postgraduate researcher and transdisciplinary artist working across film, sound, social participation and installation. @laura_denning

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She has received commissions, as well as a number of awards from Arts Council England. Most of her work aims to reveal novel insights that can contest familiar ways of thinking about people, place and sensation.⁠
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