Annie Lewandowski’s (CRF 2014) new piece Siren – Listening to Another Species on Earth will be at the Invisible Dog art center in Brooklyn from November 5-7. The project is produced by Media Art Xploration as part of the Neuroverse festival.
This new piece is the product of four years of studying the evolving songs of humpback whales. Siren immerses listeners in Lewandowski’s detailed recordings of these whale songs, made with pioneering bioacoustician Katy Payne and the Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium in 2019.
“Lewandowski and [artist and coder Kyle] McDonald’s analyses of these recordings find their creative expression through McDonald’s captivating and machine learning-driven synesthetic lighting design, which is vividly projected onto [Amy] Rubin’s elaborate sculpture made from marine debris recovered from the ocean around Cape Cod. The Siren installation draws audiences into a thick mix of the interior and exterior worlds of humpback singers, resulting in both a call to beauty and a call to action to protect marine mammals from entanglement.”
Click here for an excerpt from the recent preview on Martha’s Vineyard. If you miss Siren in Brooklyn, the show be at Mass MoCA in January.