Current courses:
2022 Listening Studies, Fall Semester 2022, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Academy of Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.
2022 Sound in Film and Audiovisual Media, Fall 2022, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Academy of Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.
Courses taught:
2019 Re-sounding Art: Contextualizing Sound-based Artistic Practices in Media (Art) History (MA/BA), Media Studies Program, American University of Beirut.
2018 The Auditory Situation: Listening in a Broader Context (MA), Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, American University of Beirut.
2018 Seminar series “Affective Atmospheres”, CAH, American University of Beirut.
2018 Seminar series “Connecting Resonances”, Goldsmiths, University of London.
2017 Seminar writing|sound (MA/BA), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
2013 Sound Design for film & video (MA), University of Copenhagen.
2012 Art of Sound in Cinema (MA: Digital Media), University of Copenhagen.
Lectures (selected):
2021 School of Media, Communication, and Culture, Jadavpur University.
2020 AI for Good Global Summit, Geneva.
2020 CHASE, Goldsmiths, University of London.
2020 Unrecord: Demodernising and/or Uncolonising Sound Objects, PRAKSIS, Oslo.
2020 London College of Communication, UAL.
2019 Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.
2019 Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania.
2019 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne.
2019 Media Art History conference, Aalborg University.
2019 Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag.
2019 Sonologia, University of São Paulo.
2018 RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga.
2017 Institute of Sonology, The Royal Conservatoire, The Hague.
2016 University of Applied Arts Vienna.
2015 Media Art History conference, Concordia University, Montréal.
2015 University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
2014 Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
2014 Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
2013 Zurich University of the Arts.
2012 Theatre Academy Helsinki.
Workshops (selected)
2020 Goldsmiths University of London.
2019 La Semaine Du Son, Beirut.
2018 Jardins Efémeros festival, Portugal.
2018 Autentika, Riga.
2018 Café Chercher, VOX-POP, Amsterdam.
2017 inSonic2017 festival, ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe.
2017 Goethe University Frankfurt.
2016 University of Applied Arts Vienna.
2016 Q-02, Brussels.
2014 Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, February.
Other invited talks (selected):
2020 ISEA2020, Montreal.
2019 Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut.
2018 School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
2018 Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens.
2018 Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Kolkata.
2017 documenta14, Berlin and Kassel
2017 ISEA2017, Manizales.
2016 The Gujral Foundation, New Delhi.
2016 Kabinetas, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2016 Q-O2, Brussels, Belgium.
2016 CUBE, IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria.
2016 Falling Walls Lab, Aarhus University, Denmark.
2014 Holbæk Kunsthøjskole, Denmark.
2014 Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
2013 Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin.
Examples of syllabi:
Sound Design for film and video: course in production (sound/digital media)
Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen
Spring term 2013, Tuesdays 11:00-13:00, Room: 17.3.10
In this course the students will produce an audiovisual work as a short fiction/documentary/experimental film for YouTube or Vimeo. No advance production skills are required. The course will address questions as well as aesthetic choices in sound editing and sound design for film, video and digital media on a basic level. Both production and theory will deal with narrative discourses that arise from the different ways of combining or converging sound and moving image to make meaning. A number of theoretical and technical texts on audiovisual/sound production will be discussed. Students will be working in groups.
Art of Sound in Cinema: course in cinematic sound studies
Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen
Fall term 2012, Tuesdays 11:00-13:00, Room: 16.1.8
In this course the students will learn to critically engage with cinematic sound by way of film soundtrack analysis. The course will address questions on the aesthetic choices made in the practice of sound in cinema, video and digital media in a basic level. The classroom discussion and related theories in soundtrack analysis will deal with narrative discourses that arise from the different strategies of converging sound and moving image to make meaning. A number of relevant film soundtracks will be discussed and analyzed. The course includes 10 weeks (2 hours per week) of obligatory classroom introduction and courseware in cinematic sound studies; the students will be expected to actively take part in the discussion by way of presentations.