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There were performances and conversations about methods of listening to our sonic environments.\n\nOpening performance debuted a new sonic creation \"Sonic Thresholds: 4th Space\" by Concordia PhD student, Nik Forrest, the recipient of a SpokenWeb research creation award.\n\nFeature performance by poet and sound-artist Oana Avasilichioaei who performed her multimedia piece OPERATOR, which explores the subject position(s) of military drone operators through text, video, improvisation, and live electroacoustic sound.\n\nAfter the performances, a Q&A panel with performers explored the technology used in their artistic practice, along with questions such as: How can technology compose poetic sound? Can ‘smart’ tech be ‘smart’ sound? What happens when improvisation meets technology? Audience members were encouraged to ask questions and to reflect upon the experience of hearing this performance with and through technology. \n\nOana Avasilichioaei interweaves poetry, translation, photography, sound, and performance to explore an expanded idea of language, polylingual and polyphonic poetics, historical structures, borders, and orality. Her six poetry collections include We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn 2012, A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry), Limbinal (Talonbooks 2015), and Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019), a poetic, sonic, visual investigation of ideas around tracks/tracking. Recent sound-performance works include EIGHT OVER TWO (2019, Semi Silent Award) and OPERATOR (2018), and she is currently writing a libretto for a one-act opera (FAWN, Toronto). She has also translated eight books of poetry and prose, including Bertrand Laverdure’s Readopolis (Book*hug 2017, Governor General Literary Award). Based in Montreal, Avasilichioaei was the 2018 Audain Visual Artist in Residence at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Read more about Avasilichioaei's work here: https://www.oanalab.com/\n\nNik Forrest is a trans-disciplinary artist based in Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Currently a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia, their research combines sound studies, gender studies and creative practice in sound performance and installation. Their sound installations have been shown at Oboro (Montreal), Eastern Block (Montreal), Paved Arts and New Media (Saskatoon), Latitude 54 (Edmonton) and most recently at the Kunsthalle Mulhouse (France). Their short experimental videos have been shown widely at festivals, galleries and museums both in Canada and internationally. 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