https://avantwhatever.xyz/about/instance/homehttps://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/browse?scope=localhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/homehttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/4xgFbX3NzQBxrmXyFiRtAbhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/5674d037-4783-470e-841c-7d298c9cb85c.jpgPeter Blamey - Hand over PanelPeter Blamey's *Hand over Panel* listens in to the overwhelming abundance of solar radiation. *Artist Statement* *Hand over Panel* is a performance work that explores the possibility of using photovoltaic technologies for a physical, embodied interaction with sunlight, realised through sound. Despite its simplicity, performing with sunlight makes it difficult to present this work to a live audience, so video seems to make sense. Technically speaking, the work is fairly straightforward: the output from a small photovoltaic (solar) panel is connected directly to an audio amplifier. In full sun, the electrical current the panel produces is heard as quiet hiss. However, when portions of its surface are shadowed by my hand, the amount of sunlight falling on the panel is reduced, along with its electrical output, causing the sound to increase in volume, shifting and deepening in tone. Ironically, in this case, less energy equals more sound. My hand also interrupts the steady flow of photons onto the panel, no doubt contributing its own changes in texture and reaction, which is further complicated by me moving my hand around in response to the sounds I’m hearing, searching out new interactions. Sunlight, hand, panel and shadow combine to produce swelling, energetic, oceanic noise, here doubled through the separate performances seen on the left and right of the screen. *Artist Biography* Peter Blamey is an artist based in Sydney, on Gadigal land. His practice is often sound-focussed and accomplished via an economy of means, and includes performances, videos, recordings and installations. Broadly speaking, his work explores (amongst other things) the interconnected themes of energies and residues, often through reimagining our everyday encounters with mundane materials and technologies and the physical world, and our experiences of energy generation, use and wastage. https://peterblamey.net https://avantwhateverxyz.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/streaming-playlists/hls/1ca92221-8504-46d7-9664-828eaf255122/55c0da72-73dc-4ee3-99d0-1eac86fb201d-master.m3u8https://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/embed/4xgFbX3NzQBxrmXyFiRtAb6715852023-06-07T11:24:45.878ZYESavantwhatevercommissionsNOhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/tsSQUPENFwnYfwJTche3jhhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/8bc711da-d407-4f82-805c-97d10102db17.jpgStephen Cornford - Spectral IndexStephen Cornford's *Spectral Index* shows us how we use rocks to look for rocks. *Artist Statement* Digitisation has shifted the materials on which our media technologies rely. The minerals and metals required for digital imaging are the same as those required for energy transition away from fossil fuels. There is currently a new resource race underway, with nation states and political blocks scrambling to ensure secure supplies of these critical raw materials. This race is both driven by and reliant upon visual cultures, a recursive circularity in which images are used to produce minerals which are used to produce images. This single-screen video work considers the role of the ‘spectral index’ in framing our relationship with landscapes that are perpetually surveilled by orbital satellites and aerial drones. A spectral index is a mathematical image function in which different wavelengths of the visible and infrared spectrum are combined to produce false colour images that analyse different terrestrial conditions. To gaze at the earth through these instrumental lenses presumes both ownership and functionality of the planetary surface below. *Artist Biography* Stephen Cornford is a media artist who works with consumer electronics, critiquing the ideologies they embody and the constitutive role they have come to play in our lives. His current research is concerned with the toxicity of digital media, the complex metallurgy of ubiquitous technologies and relationships between planetary and photographic space. Much of his recent work has been made in collaboration with scienctific researchers. He has worked alongside commercial geophysicists prospecting for technology metals in Europe and volcanologists studying magma crystallisation with X-rays. His practice often employs laboratory processes or scientific imaging, using geological furnaces to transform electronic waste or optoelectronics facilities to damage cameras. In 2018 he completed a PhD ...https://avantwhateverxyz.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/streaming-playlists/hls/de676a45-ebec-4d9b-bfbd-5df4b966fb14/1ccf67f3-dc30-4b2c-ae8a-0991b081848a-master.m3u8https://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/embed/tsSQUPENFwnYfwJTche3jh110553352023-07-04T01:40:33.908ZYESavantwhatevercommissionsNOhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/16HyL3MAB6S7tpSCnBqfCihttps://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/034c8225-f99e-47d8-baa4-839813fdb3fc.jpgCharmaine Lee - I trust her to go on living (for James Wright)Image: Charmaine Lee and Luke Cheng Charmaine Lee's *I trust her to go on living (for James Wright)* refracts and reflects the voice as self. *Artist Biography* Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. Charmaine has performed with leading improvisers id m theft able, Sam Pluta, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wooley, and C. Spencer Yeh, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Ikue Mori, Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, and Eric Wubbels. Charmaine has performed at the Lincoln Center, ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, The Poetry Project, and MoMA and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies and Huddersfield Contemporary. She been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019). As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by HBO Max, International Contemporary Ensemble, the Wet Ink Ensemble, and Spektral Quartet. She has lectured at institutions including Princeton University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and The New School. Charmaine was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (2019) and Van Lier Fellow at Roulette (2021). She currently serves on the Board of ISSUE Project Room and on the Editorial Board of Sound American. https://charmainelee.comhttps://avantwhateverxyz.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/streaming-playlists/hls/00cc5586-3812-4135-99dd-4a3d312e1e41/fb01e6f0-000f-4d45-85a5-d43293651bc0-master.m3u8https://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/embed/16HyL3MAB6S7tpSCnBqfCi2230512023-08-07T06:42:24.978ZYESavantwhatevercommissionsNOhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/gvKzHonVJocs2LYcQmJ1KThttps://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/ae85a9a1-141a-4aa9-b40b-21371d9adc1c.jpgStephen Cornford - To Photograph A RockThis video, made during an Earth Art Fellowship at Bristol University, is constructed around a short text of theoretical reflections on the volcanological experiments that I observed during the Fellowship. Taking the imaging and visual analysis technologies used by the scientists as its basis, the video draws comparisons between the earth processes simulated in the labs and the technical processes involved in the manufacture of a digital camera: comparing the furnaces used to study magma with those used to bake semiconductors.https://avantwhateverxyz.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/streaming-playlists/hls/7da081d3-f6d9-4689-954e-d7fd69e27e81/a77a2918-7814-4ff9-b1f1-d0b39ef9c417-master.m3u8https://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/embed/gvKzHonVJocs2LYcQmJ1KT6140122025-02-23T09:32:19.304ZYESMain stephen_cornford channelNOhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/ehoUNzadTMhm5s3mZa9vc5https://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/5493cbf9-f305-4f46-9c5f-bf913b352d12.jpgStephen Cornford - etaEarthRemote sensing can now determine the materiality of terrestrial geologies and extraterrestrial atmospheres. In April 2018 NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), whose mission was to find earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone of 200,000 candidate stars. Following the identification of an exoplanet, spectroscopic measurements can be made to ascertain their atmospheric conditions. Meanwhile, spectral geologist Arjan Dijkstra is imaging synthetic rare earth minerals to determine their spectral signature in the hope of contributing to our ability to resource energy transition. Connecting artistic research into the applications of multispectral remote sensing across a series of disciplines and fields, this video considers the role of rare earth metals in our energetic futures and astronomical explorations, questioning the relative scarcities in these two spectral surveying techniques. Rare earth is famously a misnomer: these elements are not rare. The video’s title eta-Earth is the astronomical shorthand for the fraction of sun-like stars with Earth-size planets in their habitable zones, a number which to date remains unknown. We have no idea how rare Earth is. https://avantwhateverxyz.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/streaming-playlists/hls/6b90d26a-32fb-47ec-bf6e-9d29750b6b06/1589e2c5-6212-4fe1-a554-d26958e2ae59-master.m3u8https://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/embed/ehoUNzadTMhm5s3mZa9vc59350532025-02-23T11:55:54.879ZYESMain stephen_cornford channelNOhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/gzx6vixoLcJdWnbEFa6XaKhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/8f7b3761-de08-47d5-b77b-ba3c4cc45e27.jpgJellyfish (Osaka-Aquarium)Jellyfish (Osaka-Aquarium)https://avantwhateverxyz.sgp1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/streaming-playlists/hls/7e27c988-2442-4272-b73b-9cc2a115b029/3e653e50-6835-4894-a82d-920a49b51d88-master.m3u8https://avantwhatever.xyz/videos/embed/gzx6vixoLcJdWnbEFa6XaK16042025-09-01T03:11:37.235ZYESPatrick HaseNOhttps://avantwhatever.xyz/w/gmgBfXAyKJTD6Ng7QKLD35https://avantwhatever.xyz/lazy-static/thumbnails/554466f4-7ba6-4ca7-a39d-4c721f03563f.jpgMare (2025)**Mare (2025)** *A short experimental film by Jan Motal & the Collective* The sea. A poem. Waves of water, words, and destinies. A sentimental poem by the medieval poet Ibn Hamdis, who had to flee his homeland of Sicily, recited by artificial intelligence – XTTS. The words crash, break, and twist like the waves of the Mediterranean Sea, across which people from Africa and the Middle East are now fleeing in the opposite direction to Ibn Hamdis. Memories of home choke in the mechanical throat, just as the coast of Sicily transforms into a dark visual poem. A tribute to all those who had to leave their homes and perished at sea. 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