Month: March 2025

What next for Memespector-GUI?

Posted on | by Jason Chao

Memespector-GUI has helped over a thousand researchers use well-known cloud-based computer vision APIs to enhance their image datasets since 2021. The last major version of Memespector-GUI was released about four years ago.

The developer of Memespector-GUI is considering continuing the development of the tool. He would like to invite former, current, and potential future users to share your feedback on the current version, as well as your ideas for the next generation of the tool.

Questionnaire https://forms.gle/BZJmMVEFFcN1zksMA

This short questionnaire has 12 questions and should take you less than 5 minutes to complete.

This survey will close on 31 March 2025.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss further, feel free to contact Jason Chao at chao@jasontc.net.

forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, 21st March 2025

Posted on | by Jonathan Gray

How can soundscaping prompt reconsideration of the lives, cultures and futures of forests?

To explore this we’re organising a forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, as part of Pulse of the Planet on 21st March 2025 from 6.30pm. You can find out more and register here.

The listening lab is part of the forestscapes project, which examines how soundscaping can surface different ways of knowing, imagining and experiencing forests.

As part of this project we are developing generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound materials to support “collective inquiry” into forests as living cultural landscapes.

At the listening lab we will be using supercollider for live algorithmic recomposition of collections of forest related sounds – including field recordings from forest research and restoration projects, as well as sounds associated with forest sites and forest issues on online platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.

In contrast to listening as individual immersion in curated recreations of nature – the lab will explore listening as a collective practice of unsettling and reconsidering nature-culture relations and how ecologies are mediatised, commodified, laundered and contested.

If you’d like to get updates on the forestscapes project you can sign up here. If you’re interested in collaborating or hosting a forestscapes workshop you can find contact details here.