tekhnē

This summer, Matthew Biederman and Pierce Warnecke spent a week immersed in Latvian forests, bogs, and nature reserves to perform botanical surveys using photogrammetry and field recording as a means to document these protected environments. It resulted in a suite of audiovisual works under the title “Phytomorphic Topographies”.

In order to highlight these different perspectives, they gathered data through photography and a variety of different microphones for field recordings (hydrophone, contact mics, geophone, electret omnis, shotgun). Through a custom-designed audiovisual instrument, they traverse both the sonic and visual landscapes in real-time to create a third space – one that exists not purely as images or sounds, but as their interconnected resonance through our interpretation.

In this conversation with the artists, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the creation of this work and its artistic, technical, and conceptual approaches – from visual scanning techniques and field recording with audio processing to the development of an audiovisual composition that integrates sound and image for performance.

The artist talk will take place on October 2 at 4:00 p.m. in building K2 of the Art Academy of Latvia, Kalpaka Boulevard 13.