BIRDSONG DIAMOND MIMIC @ARTIUM SPECULUM FESTIVAL

BIRDSONG DIAMOND MIMIC @ARTIUM SPECULUM FESTIVAL

Victoria Vesna + Charles Taylor + Hiroo Iwata + Reiji Suzuki + John Brumley

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
14 Sep 2017 - 9:00am to 16 Sep 2017 - 6:00pm

Collaborative interactive installation by Victoria Vesna (US), Charles Taylor (US), Hiroo Iwata (JP), Reiji Suzuki (JP), John Brumley (US)

Artium Speculum Festival, Trbovlje, Slovenia
THURSDAY, 14. 9. 2017 | 9.00–21.00
FRIDAY, 15. 9. 2017 | 9.00–20.00
SATURDAY, 16. 9. 2017 | 9.00–18.00

Bird Song Diamond Mimic is an interactive installation that allows the audience to practice bird songs and experience its complexity as if learning a new language. The project is habitat specific and for Speculum Artium, the bird song the audience is asked to learn and mimic is of a canary in the coal mine. When the participants hear the song and are prompted to imitate the canary, a computer grades the accuracy of their mimic. The work is part of a larger virtual reality installation that is an outgrowth of a research project “Mapping the Acoustic Network of Birds” directed by an evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor. Through this work, the artist and the scientist attempt to remind and alert the public of how birds and their acoustic richness have disappeared from our daily experiences.