Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Amsterdam. 

Founded in 1994 to present new developments in electronic and digital art forms, Sonic Acts has gained prominence with its biennial international festival — an intensive art, theory and technology gathering motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological and social landscape. Sonic Acts is also a leading platform for international projects, research and the commissioning and co-production of new artworks, often working together with local and international partner organisations such as independent and institutional cultural incubators, universities and kindred festivals.

In the course of its more than 25-year history, Sonic Acts has been a site for experimentation: a place to exchange, think, create, learn, and act. By presenting artistic investigations and research, Sonic Acts aims to advance experimentation and in turn provide a podium for dynamic perspectives that can be tools for discovery, growth, development, and emancipation – vital to understanding the complexities of our contemporary world.
 
With a focus on talent development, Sonic Acts supports a community of emerging artists through the residency and mentorship programmes [Overexposed](https://sonicacts.com/discover/overexposed) and [Underexposed](https://sonicacts.com/discover/underexposed), as well as through the commissioning and production of new artworks. The festival and year-round activities bring together artists, curators, critical thinkers and a curious, diverse audience. Next to its biennial festival, Sonic Acts organises [Practicum](https://sonicacts.com/discover/practicum), a series of workshops, reading and listening groups focused on applied knowledge and addressing ecological concerns; and [Night Air](https://sonicacts.com/discover/night-air), a programme about pollution combining in-depth talks with films, live performances, and a club night. Sonic Acts publishes the magazine _[Ecoes](https://sonicacts.com/discover/magazine-ecoes-issue-3)_ about art in the age of pollution, as well as books, music releases, and online publications in connection to its festival, commissioned works, and research projects.
 
Through this wide range of cross-disciplinary programmes, Sonic Acts explores the rapidly changing relationship between art, science, technology, and politics. The exhibitions, club nights, screenings, workshops, and symposia are grounds for radical audiovisual performances and installations, contemporary visual art, avant-garde film, progressive club music, and innovative new media, celebrating and fuelled by compelling artistic and critical perspectives.
 
Sonic Acts partners with a number of institutions across projects. As an ongoing member of both de [Zaak Nu](https://www.dezaaknu.nl/over-ons) and [MOKER](https://moker.amsterdam/), they join local forces to support the presentation and development of visual arts in Amsterdam and the Netherlands. Other completed collaborative projects have included the four-year art, research and commissioning project [Re-Imagine Europe](https://re-imagine-europe.eu/), initiated by Sonic Acts and organised in collaboration with ten cultural organisations across Europe; the [Progress Bar](https://sonicacts.com/discover/progress-bar) series, highlighting the latest tendencies in radical sound and club culture alongside urgent conversations about politics and society at large; the [Sonic Acts Academy](https://2020.sonicacts.com/about), a biannual forum dedicated to artistic research; and [Murmansk Prospekt](https://murmanskprospekt.net/), a collaboration exploring the impact of human beings on the planet. Earlier projects include the international research and commissioning project [Dark Ecology](https://sonicacts-frontend.vercel.app/discover/dark-ecology), as well as the programming of three editions of the [Kontraste Festival](https://sonicacts-frontend.vercel.app/discover/kontraste) in Krems, Austria.

History

The Sonic Acts Archive collects documentation about works, events, and people, including audio-visual material, essays, interviews and publications that have been presented across Sonic Acts’ multi-faced programming.

Having evolved from a niche event for enthusiasts, blending academic music with cutting-edge electronic sounds, into a thematic festival and commissioning body that foregrounds the cross-pollination of art, music, science and technology, the institutional archive generated as a result focuses on the production of new media art. It documents the processes of creating new media works and practitioners’ engagement with “new technologies”, the networks of people (artists, curators, producers, and technicians that attend to it) and the material histories of tools and procedures used by artists (across visual, sound and film media) to present and create such works. Finally, it illuminates the crucial role of the festival as a site of creation of artistic work, equivalent in importance to the artist's studio, the darkroom or the writer’s desk – a goal that echoes the intentions behind the very founding of Sonic Acts Festival back in 1994.

The Sonic Acts Archive advocates for social memory, for sensorial experiences and ‘hard to discipline’ artworks and performances that require specific presentational formats and participatory audiences of a festival setting to exist.

The physical archive is currently accessible by appointment. Access to material or assistance with research projects can be arranged by contacting us at [archive@sonicacts.com](mailto:archive@sonicacts.com).

Funders

Stichting Sonic Acts is door de Belastingdienst aangewezen als culturele Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling (ANBI). Deze status geeft donateurs de mogelijkheid een financiële gift fiscaal van de belasting af te trekken.

**Bank- en factuurgegevens**\
KvK: 34198520\
BTW NR: NL814129201B01\
RSIN: 814129201\
IBAN: NL31RABO0115136169\
BIC: RABONL2U\
Adres:

Stichting Sonic Acts\
Weteringschans 6-8\
1017SG\
Amsterdam

**Directeur**\
Lucas van der Velden

**Raad van Toezicht**\
Pierre Ballings (Voorzitter)\
Mariette Dölle\
Nduka Mntambo\
Joost Rekveld

Sonic Acts hanteert de salarisrichtlijn van De Zaak Nu. De raad van toezicht verricht haar werkzaamheden onbezoldigd.

**Doelstelling**\
De stichting heeft ten doel het bevorderen van activiteiten en onderzoek op het gebied van de electronische muziek, de nieuwe media, kunst en cultuur en voorts alles wat daarmee inde in de meest brede zin des woords verband houdt of daartoe bevorderlijk kan zijn.

[Annual Report 2021](https://portal.sonicacts.com/uploads/Sonic_Acts_Annual_Report_2021_38ba1ba1d3.pdf?updated_at=2022-10-12T08:18:44.351Z)\
[Annual Report 2022](https://portal.sonicacts.com/uploads/Sonic_Acts_Annual_Report2022_LR_81c55f78bd.pdf?updated_at=2023-09-14T14:58:52.187Z)

[Jaarrekening 2021](https://portal.sonicacts.com/uploads/Sonic_Acts_Jaarrekening_2021_c5c97ce666.pdf?updated_at=2023-04-11T11:23:29.806Z)\
[Jaarekening 2022](https://cms.sonicacts.com/uploads/Sonic_Acts_Jaarrekening_2022_79954f3f5c.pdf)

[Download het Standaardformulier publicatieplicht ANBI algemeen](https://cms.sonicacts.com/uploads/standaardform_pubplicht_anbi_algemeen_sa_2022_598782db3a.pdf?updated_at=2023-09-25T12:27:11.309Z). 

[Hoofdlijnen beleidsplan](https://portal.sonicacts.com/uploads/25501789_f26cec10d2.pdf?updated_at=2023-04-11T11:25:54.092Z).


ANBI

Currently there are no vacancies or open calls. 

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Vacancies

If you have any questions for Sonic Acts, including press enquiries, booking proposals or shop-related queries, please contact us at the relevant email address:

info@sonicacts.com\
press@sonicacts.com\
shop@sonicacts.com\
bookings@sonicacts.com

Sonic Acts\
Weteringschans 6–8\
1017 SG Amsterdam\
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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures – the largest museum in the United States devoted to the art and artists of movie-making – presents the exhibition and screenings [_Vertical Cinema: Shifting Perspectives_](https://www.academymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/shifting-perspectives-vertical-cinema) from 12 November 2023 to 4 August 2024.


Inspired by Sonic Acts [Vertical Cinema](http://verticalcinema.org) screening concept, which premiered in 2013, a selection of archival and contemporary material, all flipped lengthways, explore the radical possibilities of turning convention on its side. The exhibition is located in the museum’s double-height Hurd Gallery, offering a viewing experience featuring a 20’ high x 3’ wide screen. Amongst the works shown are two films commissioned by Sonic Acts – [**Joost Rekveld**’s _#43_](https://sonicacts.com/archive/joost-rekveld-43) (2013) and [**HC Gilje**’s _rift_](https://sonicacts.com/archive/hc-gilje-rift) (2017). 

The images in the film _#43_ are, in some respects, comparable to organic cells. Miniscule differences between pixels become seeds for processes of decay and growth – an imbalance that embodies a store of energy for the system as a whole, similar to electrical potential. _#43_ is inspired by ideas from biology and mathematics that first came to prominence during the development of cybernetics in the 1950s and 1960s, and that have since evolved into more recent manifestations such as catastrophe theory, complexity theory and artificial life. Meanwhile, _rift_ magnifies the violent transformation of crude oil into colourful plastic wrappers for consumer goods, resulting in flickering microscopic textures. As a marker of the Capitalocene, plastic’s lifespan is far longer than the items it wraps, the people who buy it or the companies that made it. Soundtracked by **Justin Bennett**, _rift_ is also a homage to the New Zealand artist and motion enthusiast **Len Lye**.  

Running from 12 November 2023 to 4 August 2024, _Shifting Perspectives: Vertical Cinema_ is comprised of 25 short works. In addition to debuting titles by three Southern Californian filmmakers –  _a desert dreams in red_ by **Zaina Bseiso**, _Dusty Tapes_ by **Fox Maxy** and _black man fly_ by **Walter Thompson-Hernández** – the exhibition further explores the roots of the vertical screen. Historical chronophotographic material on loan from La Cinémathèque française will be presented alongside pieces created by students of the Ghetto Film School, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to develop the next generation of great storytellers. Central to _Shifting Perspectives_ is the question: What is considered cinematic? Weaving multilayered narratives, traversing horizontal landscapes through a portrait-shaped canvas, the exhibition functions as a  provocation to expand the image onto a new axis, reflecting the proliferation of vertical formats on portable smart devices.

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Vertical Cinema at the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum, LA

Visit Sonic Acts Press at [Miss Read](https://missread.com) from 22 to 24 September, Berlin’s esteemed art book fair and festival.

Hosting over 340 exhibitors from 52 countries (making it the largest edition so far), the 3-day programme includes lectures, performances and launches examining the landscape of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book form. Attendees can discover the entire range of print products, from hand-designed fanzines and rare editions to illustrated journals, catalogues and monographs. Sonic Acts is delighted to be surrounded by leading voices and inspiring imprints. Selected on sale titles include _Field Docket_, _Ecoes_ magazine, _Hereafter_ and more – purchase your copies at reduced prices, save on shipping and meet the team. 

Lumbung Radio, an inter-local online station developed as part of documenta fifteen, has further been invited to produce a one-week broadcast and on-site programme. The events are open to the public and will be streamed on missread.com/radio and partly via local FM via Radio Cashmere and SAVVYZAAR.

Founded in 2009, Miss Read is dedicated to building a community and creating a meeting place for discourse on artists’ books, thematic publications and publishing as artistic and political practice. The festival is committed to broadening the spectrum of what publishing represents and aims to nurture different cultures and communities from around the world.

Extending their exploration into Decolonizing Art Book Fairs, Miss Read 2023 has a special focus on practices from the East(s). On Saturday, September 23, the annual Conceptual Poetics Day (conceptualpoetics.org) explores the imaginary border between visual art and literature, presenting a series of interventions, talks, discussions and readings orientated around this theme.


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Sonic Acts Press at Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair and Festival

To coincide with the turn of the seasons, Sonic Acts is holding a sale of selected print matter and releases. Ranging from the most recent edition of [_Ecoes_](https://sonicacts.com/archive/ecoes), the bi-annual magazine about 'art in the age of pollution’, to coveted material from the Sonic Acts [archive](https://sonicacts.com/archive), the items are available for a discount from now until October.

Alongside individual products, there are also various bundle deals on offer. Purchase the 2016 and 2018 _Academy Readers_ for a reduced price of €10.00. Designed by **Femke Herregraven** and **Arthur Roeloffzen** and **The Rodina** respectively, the dual titles provide insight into two instalments of Sonic Acts’ Academy – a three-day event focusing on innovative artistic research. All in-stock issues of *Ecoes* can also be ordered for €12.50 off the usual price and, in a special bundle of vintage books from the early 2000s, find *The Anthology of Computer Art*, *The Art of Programming* and *The Art of Point Pixel Programming* for just €15.00. These fascinating works document digital culture at the turn of the millennium and Sonic Acts' inaugural years as an interdisciplinary arts organisation.

For audiophiles and specialist vinyl enthusiasts – discover *Conditions: 1218-0719*, a selection of **Mækur**’s hypnotic live performances and archival excerpts, as well as **Sergey Kostyrko**’s *Settlers*, a haunting presentation of the sonic landscape of Murmansk, the largest settlement above the Arctic circle. Find both records alongside the *Tonaliens* LP, **BJ Nilsen**'s *ORE* and *unearthed*, all on sale now.

→ [visit the Sonic Acts shop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/)

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End-of-summer sale! Reduced prices on Sonic Acts publications & releases

Minji Kim 

Drawing from notes and recordings made during the Sonic Acts residency programme OVEREXPOSED x Lives of Deltas, sound artist Minji Kim discusses her ongoing research into the sonic qualities of the Zandmotor 'sand engine' experiment in the Netherlands. 

In this episode of the Overexposed Podcast made by [Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee](https://jajajaneeneenee.com/) radio, **Andrea Gonzalez** interviews **Minji Kim**, about the interplay between human life and the environment, the sonic qualities of wind and the use of auditory technologies in tracing diverse forms of decay. 

Minji Kim, also known as [Unknown Kim](https://unknownkim.com/), is a researcher and sound artist based in The Hague and Seoul. She is a founder of the eco-acoustic sound artist initiative [Acoustic Territories](https://acousticterritories.com/). Her practice investigates the relationship between human-designed infrastructure and coastal spaces, asking how sound and music might contribute to a better ecological environment. 

Asking how ecological approaches to pollution can re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta, Minji Kim's project for OVEREXPOSED x Lives of Deltas residency programme takes inspiration from the [Zand Motor](https://dezandmotor.nl/), an experimental anti-erosion pump-dredging system built on the southern coast of The Netherlands. Following her participation in the programme, Kim developed a site-specific instrument in response to the system's mechanisms, creating a medium that can reveal the acoustic quality of these coastal infrastructures in real-time.

→ Find the [Overexposed Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/overexposed/id1567822680) now on your preferred listening platform

[OVEREXPOSED](https://sonicacts.com/archive/overexposed) is a residency programme from Sonic Acts investigating pollution and its effects on everything living and nonliving, through which we aim to create awareness about pollution both in local surroundings and on a planetary scale. The outcomes of this research are presented in a variety of formats, including text publications, visual journals, and performative or discursive presentations. In 2023, the residency was paired with '[The Lives of Deltas](https://urbaninterfaces.sites.uu.nl/the-lives-of-deltas-a-research-exchange-on-sustainability-and-the-imaginary-the-university-of-hong-kong-utrecht-university/)’ – a research exchange at Utrecht University.

Sonic Acts is a part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

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Podcast: Eavesdropping on Environmental Crises with Minji Kim

Sonic Acts has recently updated its online archive with new thought-provoking features, essays and interviews from past publications including _The Dark Universe_, _Travelling Time_, _The Poetics of Space_, and _The Noise of Being_ among others.


Follow **Andrew Blackwell's** journey to a site of environmental catastrophe in _Visit Sunny Chernobyl_, piecing together its contaminated identity in _The Dark Universe_. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/andrew-blackwell-chernobyl).

Composer **Catherine Christer Hennix** discusses the intersection of music, technology and mathematics in conversation with **Bill Dietz** in _Travelling Time_, asking: how is the future of authorship and performance affected by composing with algorithms? [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/catherine-christer-hennix-travelling-time).

Navigating transcendent experiences in _The Poetics of Space_ interview _Extremities_, **Frank J. Oteri** talks with composer **Maryanne Amacher** on the topic of 'sonic panoramas' and 'aural architecture'. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/extremities-maryanne-amacher).

**Takuro Mizuta Lippit**, also known as **dj sniff**, explores his thoughts on sound spatialization in an interview by **Arie Altena** for _The Poetics of Space_. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/space-arrives-with-sound-takuro-mizuta-lippit).

Discussing his Sonic Acts commission _Citadels: Lightscape_ alongside his works _Microscopic Opera_ and _Truest Green_, **Matthijs Munnik** plays with colour, patterns and frequencies to create extraordinary experiences. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/matthijs-munnik-geographies-of-flicker).

**Arie Altena** interviews award-winning author **Ytasha Womack** on her research on Afrofuturism, considering the concept’s position at ‘the intersection of black culture, the imagination, technology and mysticism’. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/afrofuturism-ytasha-womack).

First appearing in _Hereafter_, **Jennifer Walshe** expands on her opera TIME TIME TIME and its creation process in a conversation with **Arie Altena**. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/jennifer-walshe-dinosaurs-trauma-ai).

**Lucrezia Cippitelli** analyses the importance of location in cinema and the different spatial environments of audiovisual art in an essay for _The Cinematic Experience_. [Read more](https://sonicacts.com/archive/location-of-cinematic-experience).


→Visit the [Sonic Acts archive](https://sonicacts.com/archive/filter/longreads) to read more.


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Read interviews with Maryanne Amacher, Ytasha Womack, Jennifer Walshe and more 

Charmaine Chua

Lance Laoyan

Fred Carter

Velma Spell

Liquid Time

Nessim

We are delighted to publish several new videos from _Maritime Frictions_ by **Embassy of the North Sea**, **Fred Carter**, and **Liquid Time** via our [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOt0sGccfLogAmEJyOxRINQ) and [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/sonicacts) channels. Alongside these, you can also listen to **Velma Spell**’s live recording of 'About the North Sea' on [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/sonicacts/velma-spell-about-the-north).



_Maritime Frictions_ was a collaborative event organised by Sonic Acts and FieldARTS’ in Ruigoord, west of Amsterdam. The programme included a listening walk with **Lance Laoyan**, field presentations from Harpo ’t Hart and Frank Bloem (**Embassy of the North Sea**), talks by **Fred Carter** and **Charmaine Chua**, a performance lecture by **Liquid Time** (Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen), a screening of **Michaela Büsse**’s ‘Building with Nature’ (2022), a sound performance from **Velma Spell**, and DJ set by **Nessim**. 

Explore the Sonic Acts youtube and soundcloud channels in full, both offering an insight into past and ongoing projects and events within the Sonic Acts community as well as commissioned artworks and collaborations.



→ [Discover the recordings in full](https://www.youtube.com/@SonicActsFestival/videos)

_Maritime Frictions is a part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe co-funded by the European Union._

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Maritime Frictions recordings added to Sonic Acts online archive

'Soundsweird' launch event

Yara Said / Noise Diva

Polina Medvedeva

Andreas Kühne

Zgjim Elshani

Following February’s soft launch event _**Soundsweird: Non-formal Music Learning for Young People**_ at Tempel Amsterdam, we are delighted to announce that the educational platform [**soundsweird.org**](https://soundsweird.org/) is complete! Soundsweird.org is an educational platform for non-formal music learning and experimental approaches to sound for youth in the ages 13 to 20. It contains six free workshop modules, each promoting listening, mutual sound research and co-creation.

These workshops, developed and translated into downloadable manuals by artists and musicians **Polina Medvedeva**, **Andreas Kühne**, **Yara Said** and **Zgjim Elshani** among others are free to access, share and use. We warmly encourage youth workers, music professionals and educators to join us in exploring the platform.

→ [Visit the platform](https://soundsweird.org/)

### Listening to Sampling by Yara Said & Zgjim Elshani

From social media to art, literature, and music, sound has become an important meeting point for many different cultures and backgrounds. Developed by the Sonic Acts artists **Yara Said** and **Zgjim Elshani** in Amsterdam, this module Listening to Sampling cultivates an understanding of this history of electronic music sampling, offering guidance on working with Ableton and building a basic studio setup.

→ [Go to manual](https://soundsweird.org/listening-to-sampling/)

### _When I Sound I Am Speaking_ by Polina Medvedeva & Andreas Kühne

Exploring field recording in an urban environment, _When I Sound I Am Speaking_ offers a first introduction to recording and composing soundscapes for young people. Built during Sonic Acts workshops in Amsterdam, this module provides a general understanding of techniques fundamental to field recording, and outlines diverse uses of different microphones and capturing methods. 

→ [Go to manual](https://soundsweird.org/when-i-sound-i-am-speaking/)

### _Collectiveness: Creating Sounds Together_ by KONTEJNER

Designed by artists at Zagreb's bureau of contemporary art KONTEJNER, the module _Collectiveness: Creating Sounds Together_ focuses on experimental music creation and aims to introduce teenagers to a diverse range of musical expressions in parallel to developing skills in acoustic and electronic instruments. Crafted to cultivate creative freedom among its participants, this module strives to develop alternative approaches to music making.

→ [Go to manual](https://soundsweird.org/collectiveness-creating-sounds-together/)

### _Music in the Digital Space: How to Livecode_ by Fero Király, Jakub Krejčí, Ján Šicko and Jonas (JONÁŠ) Gruska

In this two part series developed at contemporary cultural space A4 in Bratislava, Music in the Digital Space introduces the basics of innovative tools and live coding to create complex rhythmic and melodic structures through user-friendly programming languages. In this module, participants discover the algorithmic nature of music, and learn to code their own music live, as well as perform it together with others.

→ [Go to manual](https://soundsweird.org/music-in-the-digital-space-how-to-live-code/)

### _Spatial Sound_ by Davor Sanvincenti and Hrvoje Nikšić

Built during a month-long series of workshops at KONTEJNER in Zagreb, the module Spatial Sound is intended for youth aged between 16 and 20 who are interested in experimental sound, audio recording, and electronic composition. Through a cycle of sessions, this module deals with the physicality and spatial qualities of sound, as well as the creation of spatial sound artworks.

→ [Go to manual](https://soundsweird.org/music-in-the-digital-space-how-to-live-code/)

Soundsweird is the result of the two-year collaborative educational project, _Sound Experiments – New Approaches to Non-Formal Music Learning_, by three European organisations active in the fields of experimental music and sound art, as well as youth education.

Made in collaboration between Sonic Acts in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), [KONTEJNER](http://www.kontejner.org/en/o-nama/kontejner) in Zagreb (Croatia), and [A4](https://a4.sk/en/) in Bratislava (Slovakia), the project is supported by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.

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Free education platform Soundweird releases new workshop manuals 

Freshly unveiled to their subscribers, _Ecoes_ #5 was Stack Magazines' issue of the month in June! A subscription service based in London, Stack helps people to discover the best independent publishing by delivering a surprise independently-published magazine to thousands of readers around the world each month.

In an interview by director **Steven Watson** for the platform's Magazine Club blog, editor-in-chief **Mirna Belina** and assistant editor **Hannah Pezzack** discuss the process behind compiling Ecoes; from essayistic texts to interviews, experimental writing, and design choices. They dive into the material socio-political specificities of melting ice, floods, and contaminative poetry, querying how to move beyond the human in response to the environmental crisis.

→ visit [stackmagazines.com](https://www.stackmagazines.com/)

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Ecoes is Stack Magazines' selection of the month

Alice Johnston Rougeaux

Annika Kappner

Hannah Pezzack

On Thursday 13 July, Sonic Acts Press launched the fifth issue of _Ecoes_ magazine at San Serriffe Art Bookstore in Amsterdam.

→ [**View photos on Flickr**](https://www.flickr.com/photos/sonicacts/albums/72177720309853965)

Following an introduction by assistant editor **Hannah Pezzack**, **Alice Johnston Rougeaux** read a passage of her essay ‘Drifting to the Cloud Bar’, discussing the poetics and _appreciation_ of clouds. With the lights off, **Annika Kappner** guided the audience through [_AKWĀ_](https://annikakappner.bandcamp.com/track/akw), a meditative conversation between watery bodies, across cosmic scales.

→ Pass by [**San Serriffe**](https://san-serriffe.com/) to inquire about Sonic Acts publications, or find out more about _Ecoes_ via our [**online archive**](https://sonicacts.com/archive/ecoes)

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Ecoes 5 launches at San Serriffe Art Bookstore

Sonic Acts x FieldARTS: Maritime Frictions

Miriam Matthiessen 

Jacob Bolton

Following their keynote talk at [Maritime Frictions](https://sonicacts.com/agenda/maritime-frictions) at Ruigoord, **Charmaine Chua**'s conversation with **Jacob Bolton** and **Miriam Matthiessen** is now available to view via the [Sonic Acts YoutTube channel](https://youtu.be/YYnUcg8s5fE).

On 19 May Charmaine Chua was interviewed by Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen at Maritime Frictions, an event curated by Sonic Acts and FieldARTS. Engaging in a dynamic and enriching discussion, the conversation maneuvers through troubled waters of the so-called ‘logistics revolution’, drawing attention to accounts of social rebellion and unrest in ports and along the supply chain, and diving deep into Chua’s expansive research practice. 

Drawing together artistic and critical practices, Maritime Frictions included field presentations from **Harpo ’t Hart** and **Frank Bloem** (Embassy of the North Sea), a listening walk with **Lance Laoyan**, talks by **Fred Carter** and **Charmaine Chua**, a performance lecture by **Liquid Time (Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen)**, a screening of **Michaela Büsse**’s _Building with Nature_ (2022), a sound performance from **Velma Spell**, ending with **Nessim**'s DJ set for the after party. 

Visit our archive for more interviews and conversations with the Sonic Acts community as well as commissioned works, performances, collaborations and sites of exploration.

→ [Explore](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOt0sGccfLogAmEJyOxRINQ)

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Watch: Charmaine Chua Interview with Jacob Bolton and Miriam Matthiessen

Lucky Dragons

Departing from Eliot Porter’s photograph "Trees and pond, near Sherborn, Massachusetts, April 1957”, **lucky dragons** discuss the watery connections between toxicity and bodies in their Sonic Acts commission _Sentences About Rivers and Cancers_. For this episode of the [Overexposed Podcast](https://sonicacts.com/archive/overexposed-podcast), made in collaboration with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Arif Kornweitz speaks with artist duo Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck, navigating collaborative networks, hydrofeminism and experiences of crip-time during cancer treatment.  

Recorded following their commission for **Sonic Acts Biennial 2022**, lucky dragons discuss the role of time and narration in Sentences About Rivers and Cancers. In this site-specific installation, a series of tactile transducers were positioned along Amstelpark’s Rode Brug, creating a flow of spoken and sung stories as listeners crossed from one side of the river to the other.
 
lucky dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. They research forms of participation and dissent, purposefully working towards a better understanding of existing ecologies through performances, publications, recordings, and public art. In 2021, they were selected as participants for Sonic Acts’ OVEREXPOSED residency programme, and have presented their work in a wide variety of contexts, including REDCAT, LACMA, MOCA and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Centre Georges Pompidou, 54th Venice Biennale, Documenta 14, the Whitney Biennial among many others.

→ [Website](https://luckydragons.org/)
 
The [Overexposed Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/overexposed/id1567822680) can be found on preferred podcast platforms. 

**About OVEREXPOSED**
OVEREXPOSED is a residency programme from Sonic Acts investigating pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living, through which we aim to create awareness about pollution both in local surroundings and on a planetary scale. The outcomes of this research are presented in a variety of formats, including text publications, visual journals, and performative or discursive presentations.


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Sentences About Rivers and Cancers

Overexposed Podcast

Overexposed Podcast with Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee featuring lucky dragons

Sonic Acts is happy to announce a club night and new sound work premiering at [Biennale Musica 2023](https://www.labiennale.org/en/music/2023) in Venice this October.

16–29 October\
**[Newly co-comissioned sound installation](https://www.labiennale.org/en/music/2023/music-performances/anthea-caddy-marcin-pietruszewski-love-numbers)**\
**Anthea Caddy and Marcin Pietruszewski’s _Love Numbers_**

Designed for cello, synthetic sound and parabolic loudspeakers, the piece explores cosmological forces of the Sun and Moon that form multiple opposing thermal and gravitational pulls in the Earth’s atmosphere. 'Love numbers' are parameters introduced in 1909 by English mathematician Augustus Love to identify the Earth's overall elastic response to the tides.



20 October\
**[Afterhours programme at Teatro alle Tese](https://www.labiennale.org/en/music/2023/spettacoli-musica/la-notte-di-sonic-acts-amsterdam-aya-emme-s280f-soft-break-yen-tech-snufkin)**\
**_La notte di Sonic Acts_**

A lineup featuring live performances by **aya x MFO**, **Emme**, **S280F**, **Yen Tech**, alongside DJ sets by **Soft Break** and **snufkin**, the night also includes immersive light and space design by visual artist **Theresa Baumgartner**.

Evoking her 2021 album released on Hyperdub, [aya](https://aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/im-hole)’s audio-visual showcase _you can make me hole again_ offers an extended vision of the record’s themes of desolate desire and self realisation. aya is joined by **MFO**, an audiovisual artist who has been crafting stage designs, video works and installations since 2001. Poised between powerful bass and ethereal interludes, [S280F](https://s280f.bandcamp.com/album/god-cries-watching-lilith-split-an-angel-like-an-atom-over-the-sea) brings her esoteric take on contemporary club, while [Emme](https://3mm3.bandcamp.com/) perform _Heaven Help Me_, a solo opera complete with a libretto that meditates on the aftermath of an abusive relationship. With releases out on Shanghai's coveted SVBKVLT label, [Yen Tech](https://soundcloud.com/yentech) purveys deconstructed club and relentless, pulverising beats. Accompanied by [Theresa Baumgartner](http://theresabaumgartner.com/)’s light projections, the evening includes DJ sets from [Soft Break](https://soundcloud.com/softbreak) and [snufkin](https://soundcloud.com/dj-snufkin), providing high-intensity dancefloor rhythmics. 

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Sonic Acts club night and new sound work at Venice Biennale Musica 2023

Arie Altena

Philip Vermeulen

Tarek Atoui

Tomoko Sauvage

Hannah Rowan 

 Anastasia (A) Khodyreva

Brackish

Jac Common

Katy Lewis Hood

Lucia Dove

Éric La Casa 

Karen Bakker

Maud Seuntjens 

Rita Wong 

Stefanie Hessler

Therese Keogh

Now available to order, _Ecoes_ celebrates its fifth issue. Over the past decade, Sonic Acts’ ongoing interest and concern has been the climate emergency and the role and importance of art in the crisis. Expanding beyond the festival, a bi-annual art magazine, _Ecoes_ unpacks alternatives to the anthropocentric perspective that approaches the nonhuman as a resource. A portmanteau of ‘ecology’ and ‘echoes’, this magazine about ‘art in the age of pollution’ showcases compelling artistic and critical perspectives that engage with the past, future or afterlives of environmental harm, toxicity, extraction, and waste.

Cycles of water whirl through this body of texts. Sometimes they are heavy with ‘toxic muck’ and sometimes as light as bubbles, crystals of ice, or the hair on coral larvae. Occasionally they will speak to a feeling, but will often address a very specific port. Most importantly, all of them are the results of artists’ experiments and artistic meandering around the topic of water.

In her visual essay, **Annika Kappner** asks you to fill a bathtub, or chose another body of water, and join her on a journey of exploring your relationship with water. The director of the Swiss Institute in New York, **Stefanie Hessler**, discusses with **Hannah Pezzack** her three exhibitions and publications – _Tidalectics_, _Prospecting Ocean_ and _Sex Ecologies_ – and explains the ‘oceanic feeling’ that flows through her curatorial work with artists. Japanese-French artist **Tomoko Sauvage** talks to **Maud Seuntjens** about her fascination with bubbles and water clocks, clepsydras, as imagined in her new Sonic Acts' commissioned installation _Buloklok_ and other sound pieces. Dutch artist **Philip Vermeulen** discusses his two newer installations with **Arie Altena**; _Boem BOem_, a large environment with violently bouncing tennis balls, and the Sonic Acts' commission _More Moiré_, an immersive and disorienting light and sound installation that dissolves the borders between one’s inner and outer worlds.

Composer **Tarek Atoui** and field recordist **Éric La Casa** explore listening and sound recording within the harbours of cities such as Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Beirut, Istanbul and Porto, which they visited for Atoui’s project _Waters’ Witness_. Three ports along the river Thames play leading roles in **Jac Common** and **Katy Lewis Hood**’s dialogic experiment port motions. **Therese Keogh** is exploring an offshore dumping ground of dredged material, The Spoil Grounds, from the Port of Newcastle on Awabakal and Worimi Country on the east coast of Australia, the world’s largest coal export port.

**Alice Johnston Rougeaux** takes us to the Cloud Bar – a vantage point for watching clouds in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England. In _Reef Lullaby_, a chapter from the book _The Sounds of Life_ (2022), **Karen Bakker** explores the ways coral reefs listen, explaining that coral larvae are able to sense sound through hairs (cilia) that coat their tiny bodies. **Lucia Dove** talks about three St. Elizabeth’s floods that happened in the early fifteenth century, in the Grote Waard, a farming region between South-Holland and Brabant that disappeared in one of the floods. **Hannah Rowan** and **Anastasia (A) Khodyreva** present an ongoing ice dialogue. In their performative essay, members of the **Brackish collective** filter, steep and boil their liquids while thinking about the historical origins of cooking, the cultural importance of certain ingredients, and the methods of bringing them to life in the collective’s live performances.





→ Available to order now for €7,50 from the [Sonic Acts webshop](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-5/)

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Ecoes magazine #5 out now

Sonic Acts is looking for an experienced Marketing and Communications Manager to join the Sonic Acts Biennial team for 3 or 4 days per week.

→ [Apply before 28 May 2023](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/communications-manager-2/en)

# About Sonic Acts
Sonic Acts is a leading platform for new developments in electronic and digital art forms. With an extensive year-round programme in the Netherlands and abroad, and a large-scale biennial throughout Amsterdam, Sonic Acts produces, presents and distributes a wide range of artistic works. The organisation strives for innovation and exceptional quality in all of its activities, while being a hub for an international network of creators, curators and critical thinkers. Based in Amsterdam, Sonic Acts works regularly with national and international partners – from kindred cultural organisations to academic institutions – such as Paradiso, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, OT301, University of Amsterdam, Sandberg Institute, Re-Imagine Europe, and many others.

# Job description & responsibilities
As Marketing and communications Manager for Sonic Acts, you will be a key part of the team responsible for communicating and promoting the Sonic Acts Biennial. The Biennial will take place in February and March of 2024 at various locations in Amsterdam such as Paradiso, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, W139 and others. You'll work on the visibility and reach of online and offline communication campaigns, managing relationships with media partners and audiences.

As Marketing and Communications Manager, you'll work on the following tasks: 

- Conceiving and executing on-topic campaigns and promotions with a strong sense of target groups;
- Establishing timelines and goals for communications, advertising, and PR and proactively maintaining these through media partnerships and relevant contacts;
- Managing marketing and communications budgets;
- Managing communication for individual projects or events from start to finish, across all channels – including the website, mailings, print and social media – CRM tools and ticketing systems;
- Translating the Sonic Acts programmes into accessible and engaging content, both written and audiovisual;
- Conducting market research and analysis, and advising the organisation on its positioning.

# About you
- You've completed higher education, preferably specialising in communication and marketing;
- You have at least 3 years of relevant work experience;
- Your communication and writing skills in English are proficient. Being well versed in Dutch is also preferred; 
- You have a strong affinity for audiovisual and contemporary visual art, avant-garde film, electronic music, experimental media and critical discourse; 
- You have a network in media, music, art and culture;
- Living in or readily able to travel to Amsterdam.

# What we offer
- A varied and challenging job for 3 or 4 days per week (in consultation);
- Starting date in consultation, until at least April 2024; 
- A salary between €2250 and €3585,-  gross per month based on full-time employment, depending on knowledge and experience, based on the guidelines of De Zaak Nu. Freelance is possible; 
- You're part of an ambitious team collaborating with international partners and artists on exciting programmes.

# Apply for the job
Sonic Acts endorses the Fair Practice Code and the Code of Cultural Diversity and is committed to improving the assortment of voices that make up the organisation. Applicants from all (cultural) backgrounds are therefore encouraged to apply. In a case of equal suitability, preference goes to the candidate that strengthens the diversity of the team.

Send your CV and motivation (in English) by 28 May 2023 via [Homerun](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/communications-manager-2/en). Portfolios may also be included in the pdf or as a link, but are not obligatory. For any questions, you can contact us via vacancies@sonicacts.com.

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Vacancy: Marketing & Communications Manager

[Sonic Acts Biennial 2022](https://sonicacts.com/discover/biennial2022) took place at various locations in Amsterdam, interweaving an exhibition, sound performances and discourse programme, accompanied by artist presentations, workshops, excursions and more. As a part of the Biennial programme, the _Leaving Traces_ symposium opened up a forum in which to become attentive to pollution’s invisible, yet harmful touch. Actively rethinking our relation to the climate and our planetary legacies, an array of artists, researchers, curators, and scholars spoke of the many faces of toxicity – from fossil fuels to plastic, from nuclear energy to chemical pollutants.

Bringing together real stories and events of exposure, the symposium posited the concept of ‘leaving traces’ not only as the spread of toxicity but also as art's potential to disrupt. In the newly released videos, leading thinkers in the environmental humanities – including researchers, artists, and musicians – delve into climate collapse and its impact on cartography, infrastructure and consumption, as well as the role of museums and art institutions in inspiring eco-activism.

The presentations run as follows:

- Nerea Calvillo: _Sensing Polluted Airs_ 
- Angeliki Balayannis: _Public Experiments in Chemical Regulation_
- Antonia Alampi: _‘Everywhere is a here, isn’t it?’ On Toxic Entanglements_
- Dani Admiss: _Sunlight Doesn’t Need a Pipeline_
- Mary Maggic: _Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering_
- Sophie Dyer, Sasha Engelmann (open-weather): _when we image the earth, we imagine another_ 
- Aura Satz: _The Future Waters of the Storm Surge_
- Thomas Lamers (Collectief Walden): _ISLAND_
- Mikki Stelder: _Maritime Imagination_
- Daphina Misiedjan: _The Right to Water_
- Maryam Monalisa Gharavi: _Dirt, Debt, Death, Data_
- Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Agnès Villette: _Transient Marshlands, Permanent Progress – Geographies of Uncertainty_
- Ola Hassanain: _Spatial Acts: Geographies of Absence and Waithood_
- Nishat Awan: _Atlas Otherwise_
- Kent Chan: _Five Stories on Heat_

Alongside the _Leaving Traces_ programme, find a whole host of further videos in our online archive, including documentation of the [Night Air](https://sonicacts.com/discover/night-air) programmes _Shock Waves_, _Melting Cores_, _Shifting Sands_ and _Breathing with Clouds_.

These include: 

- Elena Cohen – _Sonic Weapons and Policing: A New York City Case Study_
- María Edurne Zuazu – _Between Shouting and Shooting_
- Yann Leguay – _Technical Involution_
- Félix Blume – _Desierto_ 
- Michaela Büsse – _Granular Grammar_ 
- Jeff Diamanti – _Phosphate Futures: Body, Territory, Mutiny_
- Hannah Mevis – _Filtered Clouds_do not store in container_
- Mint Park – _Latent Amongst the Air_
- Louis Braddock Clarke & Zuzanna Zgierska – _Out of Focus_

Further uploads will follow in the coming weeks – stay tuned to the Sonic Acts YouTube channel for updates. In the meanwhile, we warmly encourage you to peruse our archive, which offers a window into past and ongoing innovations within the Sonic Acts community as well as commissioned works, collaborations and sites of exploration.

→ [Watch the recordings](https://www.youtube.com/@SonicActsFestival/videos)

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Leaving Traces symposium & Night Air talk recordings now online

Sandipan Nath

Yeon Sung

Following an array of impressive and talented applications, Sonic Acts is delighted to welcome three new residents for the 2023 [Underexposed mentorship programme](https://sonicacts.com/discover/underexposed).



Underexposed is an online mentorship and training programme focused on supporting young, Netherlands-based artists during the early stages of their careers. Over the course of six weeks, artists will work directly with members of the Sonic Acts curatorial team in one-hour weekly online sessions where the team will provide feedback, support, and insights into the artist’s specific needs.

**Lance Laoyan** is a multidisciplinary designer, sound artist and environmentalist. He is a [FieldARTS 2022](https://sonicacts.com/agenda/field-arts-transitional-waters) resident and premiered his soundwalk [_Walking in the midst of it all_ ](https://sonicacts.com/biennial/biennial-2022/programme/lance-laoyan-soundwalk) at Sonic Acts Biennial 2022. Through the use of listening methodologies and recording technologies, for this year’s mentorship programme, Laoyan will develop his plans for the creation of a new electronic sounding instrument, to use in Dutch waterways.

For her proposed Underexposed project, artist-researcher **Yeon Sung** continues her inquiry into the material afterlives of French nuclear histories in the Sahara, using prototypal sensing tools to unearth the colonial toxic legacies encountered in radioactive dust particles. 

As a transdisciplinary artist and researcher, **Sandipan Nath** explores the poetic connections between human and nonhuman mineral life. For the mentorship programme, Nath will continue to build upon his collaborative project investigating the socio-cultural history and archival links between shells, teeth and bone.

These three finalists follow the [2022 Underexposed](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2022) artists **Anguille Vannamei** and **Erik Peters**, and **Angeliki Diakrousi** and **Yara Said**, who were selected to take part of the [first iteration of Underexposed](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2021) in 2021. You can explore interviews with all our past residents in the [Sonic Acts Discover archive](https://sonicacts.com/discover). 

 In the coming months, Sonic Acts will publish conversations with each new artist, offering a deeper look into their work, artistic influences and experiences. Stay tuned!

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Three new artists selected for Underexposed mentorship programme

After being deeply impressed by the talent of many of the brilliant and thoughtful applications, Sonic Acts is proud to introduce the new artist-in-residence for this year’s [OVEREXPOSED](https://sonicacts.com/discover/overexposed) residency hosted in partnership with [The Lives of Deltas](https://urbaninterfaces.sites.uu.nl/the-lives-of-deltas-a-research-exchange-on-sustainability-and-the-imaginary-the-university-of-hong-kong-utrecht-university/).



**Minji Kim**, also known as Unknown Kim, is a researcher and sound artist based in The Hague and Seoul. She is a founder of the eco-acoustic sound artist initiative [Acoustic Territories](https://acousticterritories.com/) and a member of the artist duo Qoo-Teq. Kim’s practice investigates the relationship between human-designed infrastructure and coastal spaces, asking how sound and music might contribute to a better ecological environment.

From 20 April to 20 May 2023, Kim will expand her research into ecological sound as part of the Lives of Deltas, a collaborative study programme between Utrecht University’s Centre for Global Challenges and the University of Hong Kong. During this time she will develop a research log of the course’s findings, and work on creative projects alongside researchers and MA students in Utrecht. Together they will discuss texts, present their artistic practice and join in conversations on the central ecological and infrastructural themes explored within the study programme (land, water, waste, work, city, technology, senses, ….). Her own creative project in the context of the residency takes inspiration from the Zand Motor, an experimental anti-erosion pump-dredging system built on the southern coast of The Netherlands. Kim will develop a site-specific instrument in response to the Zand Motor’s mechanisms, creating a medium that can reveal the acoustic quality of these coastal infrastructures in real-time.


Stay tuned for further residency updates over the coming weeks!

_The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed is part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe co-funded by the European Union._

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Minji Kim selected 2023 OVEREXPOSED x Lives of Deltas resident

Sonic Acts is seeking a new Marketing & Communications intern for 4 days a week from October 2023 until the end of April 2024. 

As an intern you’ll be the right-hand of the communications team, giving you insight into the entire communications process as you participate in making the activities of Sonic Acts visible. In February 2024, the Sonic Acts Biennial will take place at various locations in Amsterdam and beyond like Paradiso, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and W139. The programme will include a conference, workshops, exhibitions, performance and club nights and much, much more. During your internship, you will mostly be working on this large-scale and exciting programme.

The ideal candidate is aware of current developments in arts and technology, adept in various social media platforms, writes fluently in English and lives in Amsterdam or the surrounding area. For any questions, please contact us via vacancies@sonicacts.com. 



[→ Find out more and apply via Homerun before 1 May](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/communications-intern-3/en)

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Internship: Marketing & Communications

Sonic Acts is looking for a new production intern for 4 days per week from October 2023 until the end of April 2024.

As production intern, you will be learning the ropes working alongside and assisting experienced producers and their colleagues. The Sonic Acts Biennial will take place in February of 2024 and most of your activities will be geared towards the realisation of this large-scale and exciting programme which includes an exhibition, conference, performance and club nights as well as workshops and other programmes at venues like Paradiso, W139, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and other locations.
 
The ideal candidate is aware of current developments in arts and technology and lives in Amsterdam or the surrounding area. Spoken and written English is required for this position and a written and verbal grasp of Dutch is also preferred. For any questions, please contact us via vacancies@sonicacts.com. 


[→ Find out more and apply via Homerun before 1 May](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/productie-stagiair-3/en)

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Internship: Production

Sonic Acts is looking for a freelance audiovisual content creator to assist the Marketing and Communications team with video and image editing, as well as desktop publishing.

As the team’s Audiovisual Content Creator, you work both independently and with other creatives to produce image and video materials for Sonic Acts’ various online channels, campaigns and events. You help develop and maintain the quality of Sonic Acts’ branding and visual identity. You are well informed about developments in art and culture, audience-oriented, familiar with trends and critical thinking. Above all, you are a skilled image and video editor with a sharp eye for detail.

Your responsibilties would include providing A/V materials for communication campaigns, events promotion and media publications across various online channels (social media, website, email, streaming platforms and more); promotional materials for publications and releases including books and magazines, records and merch; as well as DTP and image editing tasks, including document design for, amongst others, press releases and reports, newsletter design and presentations.

→ [Find out more & apply via Homerun before 9 April 2023](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/audiovisual-content-creator/en)

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Vacancy: Audiovisual Content Creator

Sonic Acts is delighted to invite applications for **Underexposed**, an online mentorship and training programme by Sonic Acts focused on supporting young artists based in the Netherlands. 

Since its conception, the Underexposed mentorship programme has supported artists across the Netherlands, including the successful mentorship of artists **Angeliki Diakrousi** and **Yara Said** in the [first round](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2021) of 2021, and **Erik Peters** and **Anguille Vannamei (Noam Youngrak Son and Sarah Fitterer)** in 2022 as a [second round](https://sonicacts.com/discover/selections-underexposed-2022). One artist will be selected for the 2023 iteration of the programme, which runs from 24 April to 2 June.


### About the mentorship programme

Over the course of the six-week mentorship and training programme, the selected candidate will work directly with members of the Sonic Acts curatorial team, taking part in one-hour weekly online sessions where the team will provide feedback, support, and insights into the artist’s specific needs. An in-depth conversation with the Underexposed resident will also be published in [_Ecoes_]((https://sonicacts.com/discover/ecoes)) magazine and promoted via our [website](https://www.sonicacts.com/discover/filter/longreads). 

### Applying and eligibility

Underexposed is intended for young artists, 22 to 32 years of age, based in the Netherlands. The programme is open to young makers, artists, and designers working with experimental sound or moving image, and with a strong interest in ecological issues, who have graduated from art academies or similar artistic programmes, or can demonstrate interest in the field with at least one year of experience. Currently enrolled students are not eligible for the programme, but students graduating in 2023 are welcome to apply. Applications from both individual artists and collectives are welcome.

Application texts should be in English and must include the following:
- Project plan or grant proposal that you would like to improve (max. 1,500 words), including a project budget for max. 40.000 EUR

- A motivation letter (max. 1,000 words) in which you provide the following information: give a short summary of the project including the current stage of development; outline your expectations of the Underexposed programme; the main challenges you face and what you need help with most

- Portfolio, including a short bio (bio max. 300 words, max. 10 MB)


### Deadlines and selection process

Applications should be submitted via [_Homerun_](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/underexposed-2023/en) by 3 April 2023 and the selected applicant will be notified by 17 April 2023. The selection committee comprises the curatorial team of Sonic Acts.


_For further enquiries please contact us at residency@sonicacts.com_




Underexposed – Mentorship Programme

Applications open for Underexposed 2023 mentorship programme

Sonic Acts is looking for a new Head of Marketing & Communications for 4 days a week. 


As Head of Marketing & Communications, you will lead the communications team in the promotion of Sonic Acts' programming, working closely with programmers, producers and partner organisations to increase the visibility and reach of Sonic Acts' year-round activities, including the Sonic Acts Biennial planned for February 2024.

The ideal candidate possesses a wide awareness of current developments in art and culture, has at least 3 years of relevant work experience, and is able to communicate Sonic Acts’ diverse programmes in an innovative and inspiring way in English or Dutch.



→ [Apply now via Homerun before 17 March](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/hoofd-marketing-communicatie)

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Vacancy: Head of Marketing & Communications


Sonic Acts and the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe) invites applications for [**The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed**](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/the-lives-of-deltas-x-overexposed-residency-programme/en) residency programme on the theme of _**Pollution/ Pollination**_. Taking place from **20 April to 20 May 2023**, this fully-funded residency is a unique opportunity for Netherlands-based artists to expand their practice, develop new creative methodologies, and work on artistic assignments with a small group of MA students.

At the delta, the power of industrialisation, digitalisation, food precarity, sea level rise, volatile weather conditions and other consequences of global warming, can be felt like nowhere else. Formed by an array of powers (geological, meteorological, humanistic), these ‘critical zones’ – as Bruno Latour would call them – reveal differences, but also unexpected similarities. This year's artist-in-residence will respond to the key question underlying The Lives of Deltas programme, asking: how can ecological approaches to pollution and pollination re-frame interspecies networks in the contemporary urban delta?




### About the residency

One candidate will be selected based on the quality of their proposal made in response to the project. The artist in residence will participate in The Lives of Deltas study programme; present their artistic practice to attending students, tutors and scientists; and join in conversations on the central ecological and infrastructural themes explored within the programme. The project will culminate in the creation of short films produced by the programme’s MA students, during which the artist-in-residence will be invited to offer critique and guidance.

The artist-in-residence is expected to keep a weekly ‘research log’, documenting the programme in a medium of their choosing. The results of this log will appear in the periodic magazine [_Ecoes_](https://shop.sonicacts.com/product/ecoes-4/) and feature in Sonic Acts’ media channels such as Telegram. If applicable, the findings of this research may also be presented by the artist-in-residence as a part of future Sonic Acts events and collaborations.

### Practical information

The month-long residency occurs from 20 April to 20 May 2023, and takes place both online and in Utrecht. The resident will receive a total fee of €2,500 for the one month programme (2–3 days a week). All travel expenses within the Netherlands will be covered. The resident will also have access to a desk-based work space at the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges.

### Deadlines and selection process

Applications should be submitted via [Homerun](https://sonicacts.homerun.co/the-lives-of-deltas-x-overexposed-residency-programme/en) in English by 24 March 2023, and the selected applicant will be notified by 1 April. The selection committee comprises the curatorial team of Sonic Acts and [Dr. Rick Dolphijn](https://www.sonicacts.com/community/rick-dolphijn), Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University and an Honorary Associate Professor at Hong Kong University.



_For further enquiries please contact us at residency@sonicacts.com_

_The residency is part of a new collaboration between the transdisciplinary programme The Lives of Deltas – hosted by Utrecht University and Universities in Maputo, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong – and Sonic Acts. The Lives of Deltas x Overexposed is part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe co-funded by the European Union._