Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard

Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice.

Stephanie Loveless is a media artist whose research centres on practices of listening. She is Senior Lecturer in Arts, Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and editor of A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros.

Tullis Rennie is a composer, improviser, recordist, and researcher in socially engaged sound practices. His creative work encompasses audio composition, installation, participative community projects and live/improvised performances presented in over 20 countries. He is Senior Lecturer in Music at City St George’s, University of London.

Morten Søndergaard is an internationally acclaimed curator and associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Head curator at Momentum Biennial 2025 and founder of the conference series POM - Politics of the Machines. He has published on sound- and media art and curated exhibitions including ZKM, Eyebeam, and Roskilde.

Freya Zinovieff is currently completing her PhD at Simon Fraser University, and she holds a first-class honours degree from Cambridge School of Art, and an MFA from University of New South Wales. Her work critically examines the intersections of sound and violence.