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Robertina Šebjanič
PrePhD (alumni)
Robertina Šebjanič is an independent artist and researcher whose work explores the biological, (geo)political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. In her analysis of the Anthropocene and its theoretical framework, the artist uses the terms “aquatocene” and “aquaforming” to refer to the human impact on aquatic environments. Her projects call for the development of empathetic strategies aimed at recognising the rights of other (non-human) species. Her art work Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva generator (artist proof) is since 2019 part of the .BEEP {collection;}_ Electronic Art Collection, Spain. She exhibited/performed at solo and group exhibitions as well as in galleries and festivals: Ars electronica Linz, CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Grand Canaria), Kosmica festival_ Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), Centre d'Art Santa Mònica ISEA 2022 (Barcelona), Matadero(Madrid), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), Le Cube (Paris), MONOM_ CTM (Berlin), Art Laboratory Berlin, ZKM (Karlsruhe), re:publica (Berlin), Mladi Levi_Ljubljana, Centro de Cultura Digita (Mexico City), Device art 5.015 at Klovičevi dvori (Zagreb), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), Eyebeam (New York), PORTIZMIR#3 (Izmir), KIKK festival ( Namur), +MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova)_Ljubljana and more….
The Multispecies Sensorium and Communication in the Age of the Aquatocene
The practice-based Pre-PhD project »The Multispecies Sensorium and Communication in the Age of the Aquatocene« by the art-science researcher Robertina Šebjanič will address interspecies sensing/sounding and communication in the context of human interaction with other creatures and forms of life in the new (ecological) realities of the marine Anthropocene. The main objective will be to develop remote sensing methods through audio-observation and haptic reflection loops from the more-than-human animals living in marine environments, with the intervention that will provide insides into vivid soundscapes of underwater environments in non-invasive ways. With the research, Šebjanič will tackle and utilise interspecies sensing and communication, which have the potential to serve as a means of our interaction with other forms of life in the new (ecological) realities of aquatic life.
Selected Awards & Nominations
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Falling Walls 2021 – winner of Falling Walls in the Art and Science category, falling-walls.com/people/robertina-sebjanic
Honorary Mention @Prix Ars Electronica 2016, a project Aurelia 1+Hz / proto viva sonification by Robertina Šebjanič, archive.aec.at/prix/showmode/52898
STARTS2020 nomination of the project Aqua_forensic (co-author with Gjino Šutić), starts-prize.aec.at/en/aqua_forensic
STARTS2016 nomination for project Time Displacement/Chemobrionic Garden (co-author with Ida Hiršenfelder and Aleš Hieng Zergon), starts-prize.aec.at/en/timedisplacement
Selected Articles & Publications
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Robertina Šebjanič: ‘There are still songs to sing beyond mankind’: Sounds of a troubled world = songs for serenity, Sage journals, Social Science Information SSI, Special issue: ANTHROPOCEAN, Volume 57 Issue 3, September 2018, First Published August 2, 2018; pp. 422–431, Accessed online: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0539018418
Plastic Ocean: Art and Science Responses to Marine Pollution, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Ingeborg Reichle, editor ; With contributions by Dianna Cohen, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Mary Maggic, Robertina Šebjanič, Brandon Ballengée, Victoria Vesna, Martina R. Fröschl, Alfred Vendl, Reiner Maria Matysik, Ingeborg Reichle, Thomas Schwaha, Stephan Handschuh, María Antonia González Valerio, Rosaura Martínez Ruiz, Pinar Yoldas and Michael Sauer. degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110744774/html