CEM Workshop: Towards the Love of Missing Out (LOMO): LISTENING

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Keynote Workshop

Performed by the Centre for Emotional Materiality

Thursday, November 10, 2022, 5:30-6:30 PM

Myers Studio, Crozier-Williams Student Center

In lieu of a standard keynote address and in keeping with our focus on Contact, affect, and collaboration, our featured speakers will be the members of the Centre for Emotional Materiality: Surabhi Saraf, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Marcus Brittain Fleming, and Mariah Hill. They will present a series of activations, themed “Towards the Love of Missing Out (LOMO).”

What is the sound of joy? What does fear sound like?
Can we listen to them with our fingers, our feet, our whole body?

Explore listening as a tool for sensing into the present moment. Inspired by the practice of “Quantum Listening” by Pauline Oliveros, this participatory performance harnesses sound, projections, and gentle movement to invite the audience to engage in deep attentive whole body listening as a form of love in action

“Quantum Listening is listening in as many ways as possible simultaneously—changing and being changed by the listening.” —Pauline Oliveros

Centre for Emotional Materiality (CEM) is a collective of multidisciplinary artists and researchers who examine the algorithmic conditioning of emotions and its effects on our bodies and beliefs. We devise strategies in the form of workshops, study circles, toolkits, rituals etc. for holistic thinking, feeling, and acting in the digital era.

Our work is grounded in building collective knowledge and discourses by taking research outside of the lab, and bringing it to our communities. We foster nonlinear, nonbinary, critical research and creative thinking-through-making. With a focus on emotional health, intelligence, and imagination, we envision new kinds of affective relationships with technology that pave pathways for interdependent and pluralist futures.

CEM embraces the Blob and its fluid potential as an organizing principle. We morph, shift, and adopt as needed. CEM is organized by Surabhi Saraf, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, Caroline Sinders, Marcus Fleming, and Mariah Hill.

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