Listening to Dark Matter Exhibition, Madrid
09 March – 26 April 2023 Free entrance booking advised here In Listening to Dark Matter, artist investigator, Rebecca Collins (1982), invites engagement with scientific uncertainty by staging a series of imaginative encounters with dark matter, an invisible yet abundant particle present in our everyday lives. Notoriously difficult to detect, scientists use technologically engineered advanced […]
Detectives of the Invisible: Towards a Cosmological Listening or How to Hear Elusive Particles
Rebecca was invited by curator Isabel De Naverán to contribute a three-hour seminar session as part of the ‘Collective Grief and Planetary Grief’ study group at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. The session focused on the ongoing mysteries of our Universe and considered what it might take to have a sensory feel for new […]
Art & Science: Artistic Research & Sound Art
Rebecca Collins is presenting findings from her ongoing research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) as part of Science Week in Madrid at the Residencia de Estudiantes. She will share ongoing work, opening her notebooks to the wider public, to give insights into what has been going on since installing herself in B14, an office […]
The Listening Academy, Bergen 2022
Rebecca shared extracts from her current research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) at The Listening Academy in Bergen following an invitation from Brandon Labelle. The event, unfolding over three days in the harbour area of the city at ‘The Unfinished Institute’ felt like a timely reminder of the role of listening across a variety […]
Art, Science and Technology: From Creation to Exhibition
Rebecca Collins is invited to present her research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ at an event on Art, Science, and Technology held at the Teatros Canal in Madrid. Discussions on the role of artists within institutions took place with a mixed audience of curators, cultural producers and interdisciplinary researchers.
Membranes, Microphones, Hydrophones & Particles
The second of four interdisciplinary seminars with Spanish National Radio presenter, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández and leader of acoustic research for astro particle detection, Miquel Ardid. Video documentation of the session forthcoming.
Rebecca Collins is Awarded a Royal Society Saltire Early Career Fellowship
Rebecca Collins is awarded a prestigious Royal Society of Edinburgh Early Career Saltire Fellowship and is the next generation of artistic researchers leading European Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Sonic Ecologies /Sonic Solidarities
A reading group session with Edinburgh Environmental Humanities research network. Fred Carter & Alex Campbell hosted this session and I thoroughly enjoyed sharing and discussing material with fellow researchers in this context. The materials discussed were: Andrew Brooks’s ‘Songs of Noise & Opacity: Toward a Sonic Politics of Solidarity,’ The Contemporary Journal (October, 2020), attached PDF excerpts from The 2015 Baltimore […]