New Nature’s Virtual Listening Party: Hearing Beyond the Human

Check out Dave Shaw’s (PhD English, Concordia) overview
of the New Nature‘s Virtual Listening Party:

“New Nature, an immersive Media and Climate Science Exchange between Canada, Germany, Mexico, and the United States, has transitioned to a virtual mode of delivery in response to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the entirety of the exchange has taken place through a series of meetings on the suddenly-omnipresent video conferencing program Zoom. The idiosyncrasies of this platform have become a kind of uneasy participant in the conference itself: “I see us like algae in the tide,” New Nature’s curator Samara Chadwick says: “We’re at the whim of something we don’t entirely understand.” With that in mind, New Nature’s listening party not only provided an opportunity for several of its participants to showcase their work, it also represented probably the most technologically-ambitious component of the project to date, and demonstrated the capacity of technology to both bridge the isolation produced by the COVID-19 pandemic and render the nonhuman world audible.”

Read more of Shaw’s overview here.

For more about New Nature, read about the project here.