Situating <em>Norths</em>: Critical thinking from critical listening in data-derived sound arts practice

Boehringer, J

doi:10.21785/icad2025.078

Situating Norths: Critical thinking from critical listening in data-derived sound arts practice

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jorge Boehringer ORCiD

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Abstract

Arising out of reflection upon the author’s recent dataderived environmental sound-artworks, this paper argues an in-depth case for the ‘performance’ of philosophy through sound and listening. Following a brief contextualization of experimental artistic practice, fundamental areas for philosophical inquiry including epistemology, phenomenology, aesthetics, ontology, and ethics are shown to intersect with critical concerns for data-derived sonic art. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples in sonic art and experimental artistic practice more broadly, these fields are demonstrated to provide a material ground upon which philosophical discourse has been and continues to be fruitfully carried out. Examples from the author’s recent body of data-entangled sound installation work are then presented as sites for a playful critique of data and its influence on every life. Arising as corollaries from this work, insights as to how understandings of information are employed in the construction and navigation of personal experience and shared worldhood are presented.