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Here is a follow-up post where we share our impressions about our participation at “Madness: fighting for justice in Mental health”, the 28th Conference of the Disruption Network Lab that investigated systems of mental health care and support, focusing on prevailing discourses and practices, biases and inequality.
A part of the Sentire artistic project – Olga Kozmanidze and Marcello Lussana – contributed to the conference program by bringing a workshop "Embodiment of exclusion" that was specifically created to further deepen the discussion and experience around the conference’s topic.
Together with the workshop participants, we identified bodily gestures and behaviour, associated with social exclusion. Participants were invited to address their personal experiences and share their stories, initially in the form of sketches or writing. Next, they used these stories as scores to be enacted through movement improvisation and while using the Sentire during the social interaction. Together we explored how the Sentire sound environments affect our perception of a specific situation or social behaviour.
Sentire team thanks all the participants for sharing and enacting their stories through the use of the Sentire. We also thank the whole team of the for creating a chance for us to approach such an urgent topic through the Sentire and its mediation of the embodied social experience.

In November 2022 the Sentire project was invited to the event: “Madness: fighting for justice in Mental health”, the 28th Conference of the Disruption Network Lab that investigated systems of mental health care and support, focusing on prevailing discourses and practices, biases and inequality.
During the 1st day of the event, Olga Kozmanidze facilitated our participatory performance, where hearing and feeling are weaved together using sensors that connect movement and contact to sound. This time we used one of the recent sound environments that was specifically relevant to the conference program. It was composed in collaboration with people suffering from schizophrenia whose distress is often manifested in hearing voices. Therefore, voices provided major material for inspiring the creation of the new sound environment.

Later Marcello Lussana took part at the panel “Art and survivor empowerment” where he shared about his collaboration with Pop Up Institute for the Mental Festival in June 2022 for which the sound environment with voices was created.

We want to thank the whole team of the Disruption Network Lab for organizing the conference and for creating an opportunity for us to contribute to the program with such an urgent topic with our research and practice.

Marcello Lussana and Olga Kozmanidze take this occasion also they thank their colleagues and collaborators who supported the project behind the scene and without whose contribution there wouldn’t have been all that meaningful knowledge and experience about Sentire to share with others. Big thanks to Pascal Staub who is a 3rd member of the Sentire artistic collective and a part of the Sentire Research Project at the Humboldt University. Big thanks to the rest of the Research team: Prof. Dr. Jin Hyun Kim, Marta Rizzonelli, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Stahl.

Photo credit: Maria Silvano

Disruption Network Lab recorded and published our performance at the conference : Fighting for Justice in Mental Health.
Thank you!
Enjoy :)

In case you missed it watch now the performance Sentire by Marcello Lussana & Olga Kozmanidze part of the conference : Fighting for Justice in Mental Health.

https://youtu.be/zxAL2B7HSRY

TOMORROW conference starts.
Join us in or online to foster social justice in .
Last tickets at the door. Discover the programme here: https://bit.ly/DNL28.

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Looking forward to bringing Sentire to MADNESS: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health, the 28th Conference of the Disruption Network Lab that investigates systems of mental health care and support, focusing on prevailing discourses and practices, biases and inequality. It is exploring the possibilities of a mental health system which puts human rights and justice in the centre of its practice. The conference introduces the perspectives of scientists, human rights and social justice activists, artists, doctors and practitioners as well as those closely affected – the people living with mental illness, through keynotes, panels, performance, film screening, workshops and meetups.

Sentire project contributes to the program by bringing the immersive performance (Sat., 16:30) and a workshop “Embodiment of exclusion” (Sun., 12:00). The workshop was specifically developed for the conference and is an invitation to collectively address the problem and the embodiment of social isolation.

Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/3251185881824268

Call for papers or artistic presentations
Conference “Interactive Digital Art & Societal Health”

Recently the research area “digital health” has been established and there has been a growing interest in the use of digital technologies for creative arts therapy, whose practice enriches people's lives, usually as part of a psychotherapy process. This conference asks what roles interactive digital art could play in societal health, including the needs of individuals, communities and populations.
While digitisation may lead to isolation, separation and addiction of individuals and groups into social bubbles, interactive digital art tends to integrate social interaction of two or more persons situated in a physical environment into a mixed, augmented and virtual reality.
More specifically, interactive digital art, i.e. art that allows real-time interaction of the performer or participant, is considered to enhance users’/clients’ freedom of expression, especially in cases where they are constrained by the physical environment, and to facilitate multimodal expression, combining images, sounds and/or body movements.
The motivation of this call for papers or artistic presentations is to promote the usage of interactive digital art in healthcare and other daily life contexts where societal health plays a role both on a theoretical and practical level. We invite researchers, artists, engineers, designers and practitioners who work both in the fields of digital art and healthcare to apply and participate.

Contributions to be invited can address (but are not limited to) the following questions:
To what extent is social health promoted by interactive digital art? Which artistic media are particularly relevant?
What are the benefits of interactive digital art as a means of creative arts therapy?
What are methodological considerations concerning users’/clients’ assessments?
What are future research directions?
Which technologies and interactive environments are appropriate for a specific therapeutic purpose?

The conference will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2022 at the Heilig-Geist-Kapelle in Berlin.
To apply, please send a short abstract (about 300 words) to [email protected] by September 30, 2022

Organization: Prof. Dr. Jin Hyun Kim & Marcello Lussana, M.A. (Humboldt University of Berlin) within the scope of the research project “Social Interaction through Sound Feedback – Sentire” (https://www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwissenschaft/systematik/projekte/sentire-soziale-interaktion-durch-klang-feedback)

https://www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwissenschaft/systematik/Veranstaltungen/copy2_of_aktuelle-veranstaltungen/conference-interactive-digital-art-societal-health201d

Conference “Interactive Digital Art & Societal Health” Call for papers or artistic presentations Conference “Interactive Digital Art & Societal Health”

Sentire starts today at mental Festival
https://m.facebook.com/events/678320503399379?__tn__=%2As-R
You have a whole week to try it out!
The whole program is at
https://popupinstitut.com/

The pre-print version of the article "Fostering Social Interaction Through Sound Feedback: Sentire" has been published 🥳

Dear Sentire followers,

one study of our research project, Social interaction through sound feedback, is dedicated to couple therapy.
For such purpose we are looking for couples who are interested in undertaking five therapy sessions (for free). Two of such sessions will involve the use of Sentire.

More information can be found here:

www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de