EVENT: Electric Dreams: Anthropocene in C Major featuring Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray

How can art empower us to tackle the climate emergency?

When: Saturday 19th February, 8pm & Tuesday 22nd February 2022, 7pm
Where: SA Museum
Book now: Electric Dreams: Anthropocene in C Major

Jamie Perera, an artist that uses sound to deconstruct objects and data in ways that create provoking experiences for listeners and Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray, a researcher from the University of Adelaide, who focusses on connecting community to environmental issues discuss how art and hope can converge to create pathways of awareness and deconstruction as we share the global challenge of how to face climate, colonisation and social justice crises.

The conversation springs from Jamie's innovative work, the immersive "Anthropocene in  C major". Jamie works at the intersection of sound art and human impact issues such as climate change, social justice and decolonisation. He is the first artist to sonify the Holocene with the score "Anthropocene In C Major", an immersive experience of human impact on earth, felt through a live performance that turns data into sound. Jamie and Melissa will discuss their journeys through the Anthropocene, and their experience of art, hope and climate.

A panel discussion about this performance will be a part of another, full-day event called the Electric Dreams Conference.

Electric Dreams is a 1 day conference investigating and celebrating the art of immersive storytelling. The program will feature sessions from leading artists and creative technologists whose work is presented at Adelaide Fringe, as well as a keynote by Vince Kadlubek, co-founder & CEO of Meow Wolf, an award-winning immersive arts production company in the US. If you’re an artist or technologist, a film-maker or performer, a programmer or curator, Electric Dreams is for you. It’s for people who want to keep on top of the creative and commercial opportunities of emerging technologies. It’s for people who want to shape society, encourage debate and connect with audiences in new ways.

When: Monday 21st February 2022, 9am
Panel discussion about Electric Dreams: Anthropocene in C Major: 12pm
Where: Lot 14, North Terrace, Adelaide
Book now: Electric Dreams Conference

How can art empower us to tackle the climate emergency? Jamie Perera uses sound to deconstruct objects and data in ways that create provoking experiences for listeners, and Professor Melissa Nursey-Bray, a researcher from the University of Adelaide, focusses on connecting community to environmental issues. They discuss how art and knowledge can converge to create pathways of awareness and deconstruction as we share the global challenge of how to face climate, colonisation and social justice crises. The conversation springs from Jamie's work, the immersive "Anthropocene in  C major", a score that sonifies data from the Holocene to create a live experience of human impact on earth. Jamie works at the intersection of sound art and human impact issues such as climate change, social justice and decolonisation, and he and Melissa will discuss their journeys through the Anthropocene, and their experience of art, climate and hope.