In September 2022 Linda presented our research at the FEMeeting conference in Portugal. As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2022 “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” included 90 presentations by 95 speakers from 23 countries as well as other activities to encourage communication among its participants. Taking place from 12 to 17 September 2022, the third conference has kicked off in Lisbon, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, and continued its program in the city of […]
In July 2022 Linda was asked to present a keynote talk on her research with women in sound and to launch the GAIA website at the Sound Symposium Media City Salford. This was a fantastic opportunity to have sound and media professionals engage with our interactive website and get some feedback on the design, particularly the soundscape design and the recorded narratives. Thye audience consisted of students working in game sound technology, sound interraction and design, alongside researchers, professors and […]
In June 2022 we presented a talk on the development of the GAIA website, ‘Evolving Ourselves with Unnatural Selection: Creating a Better You‘ for the Sound Re-dug festival at the Bidsten Observatory in Liverpool. BO is a self-organising, communal study site that focuses on providing individual users and groups with a temporary place to develop projects that require time and space in a flexible, non-pressured environment. Our audience included artists, local activists, artist and researchers in residence, alongside members of […]
We are so delightef to be presenting, for the first time, our research so far Evolving Ourselves with Unnatural Selection at Explorathon 2021 on the 24th of September, 4pm UK time. For more info about what we’re doing and what else is happening at ED Explorathon 2021 Click Here To register at Eventbrite Click Here What We’re Doing Have you ever wondered about the ethical implications of emerging technologies? We hear more and more in the news about gene editing […]
We’ve been looking at how we can create a soundscape for each of our domes which reflect the themes within. This is quite a difficult concept as we are exploring 5 very complex ideas: curing diseases, eradicating diseases, making a better version of you, editing and adapting species for climate change and resurrecting extinct species. So how do you create a soundscape for these themes in our domes. Linda has been working with the scenarios we are creating for the […]
