* This event has been postponed until further notice *

Description:
Recording the Anthropocene is a workshop designed for artists and researchers interested in recording a changing world through site-specific audio recording. This workshop will include an introduction to B2's 360-degree audio capabilities through a group collaboration. Participants should expect to learn a handful of field recording techniques as well as being exposed to different microphones used in the practice of field recording.

About the artist:
Josh Westerman is a Colorado based interdisciplinary artist and musician who works with installation art, graphic scores, field recordings, appropriated content, improvisation, and video. His work utilizes and critiques emergent media and aesthetics while still showing a fondness for established disciplines. He experiments with algorithmic art and has explored issues like alienation and intimacy in the contemporary social and political contexts brought about by the ubiquity of digital technology. Josh is a graduate of California Institute for the Arts where received an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices and Integrated Media. He is currently attending the University of Colorado Boulder where he is a PhD candidate in Critical Media Practices where he works with Tara Knight. He has had works premiered by Iris Sidikman, Thomas Sturm, the Calarts Ensemble, SICPP ensembles and at the New Music Lab in Montreal as well as the Darmstadt Festival.