Deep Listening: Art/Science
2nd Annual International Conference on Deep Listening
July 10-13, 2014

Pre-conference workshops – July 7-9
Conference Proceedings – July 10-12
Post-conference festival – First Festival; a Festival of Premiere Performances – evening of July 12 & all day July 13th

Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Organized by Deep Listening Institute, Ltd
Presented by RPI’s School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), RPI Arts Department and the Center for Cognition, Communication and Culture

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PERFORMATIVE WORKS
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CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
The Deep Listening: Art/Science conference organizers welcome applications for the second international conference on Deep Listening. This conference provides artists, educators, and researchers an opportunity to creatively share ideas related to the practice, philosophy and science of Deep Listening. Developed by composer and educator Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening is an embodied meditative practice of enhancing one’s attention to listening.  Deep Listening began over 40 years ago with Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations and organically evolved through performances, workshops and retreats.  Deep Listening relates to a broad spectrum of other embodied practices across cultures and can be applied to a wide range of academic fields and disciplines.

This includes, but not limited to:

• theories of cognitive science
• pedagogy across all levels of education
• composition and improvisation
• performance theories
• creative arts/occupational therapy
• social practice and public engagement
• community building and collaboration
• the realization of new creative works
• theories of consciousness
• developing new performance paradigms across abilities
• the pairing of Deep Listening practice with new technologies and design to advance all of these fronts and more.

Deep Listening: Art/Science invites practitioners and scholars to consider the experience of this practice and its use in the creation of art, communication, collaboration, improvisation and education. This conference equally invites scientific and philosophical discussions about new and unexplored directions and applications as well as the efficacy of the practice of Deep Listening.  At this intersection of ART and SCIENCE the conference aims to facilitate exciting dialogues and unearth new ideas to inform and expand the practice of Deep Listening.