Permeating
Noise

16:00–18:00

Sound Inequalities in Local Landscapes (soundwalk)

The sound walk will connect active listening with reflection on the historical, structural, and political layers of the urban sound environment. Sound artists Marie Čtveráčková and Tamara Spalajković will lead participants to focus on how sound shapes our perception of space, our relationship with the environment, and how power structures are reflected in our acoustic environment.

The walk will also include a discussion on the history of sound instruments developed in the context of the war industry and the traces these technologies have left in our everyday acoustic experience. Participants will be guided to find their own approach to conscious listening without technical mediation (audio recorders).

Marie Čtveráčková & Tamara Spalajković

18:30–21:00

Permeating Bites

Short experimental presentations of some~thing that has already been happening or is about to happen. The Bites are brief transmissions of curious propositions, emerging ideas and projects in-progress permeating porous zones of knowing, doing, being. They should serve as invitations for others to join the process.

Short presentations by:
Tereza Stehlíková - Tracing and Treading a Tangible Territory
Tamara Spalajković - Multispecies Research Almanac
Vojtěch Liebel - Shapeshifters
Catherine Radosa - GOLDEN SHIT: Humus humanus et multispecies
Lamija Čehajić - ˜”°•.˜”°• afterfacts •°”˜.•°”˜
Lukáš Rofl - Change for the better
Michal Kučerák - Sound Ecologies
Lenka Hámošová - Embodied AI Lab
Markéta Dolejšová - AVU Research Groups

Moderated by Tereza Lišková & Markéta Dolejšová, through an experimental food landscape created by Marika Krčmářová

21:30–22:00

Mixed Feelings

Stand-up Show
Tomáš Moravanský (Panáčik)

22:00–00:00

Party

How can we learn to dance together – across species, contexts, disciplines?

DJ sets by:

22:00–23:00 kat (grlmonster)

23:00–00:00 Ursula Sereghy

15:00–17:00

Whales of Brine: Cetacean Communication and Techno

This workshop explores alternative understandings of whale-to-whale communication with "brine", the primordial saline medium of oceans, organic cells, and human inner ears, as a guiding metaphor. We will move beyond dominant decryption and translation frameworks in contemporary cetacean communication research by repurposing specialized AI models fine-tuned on whale song. Through symbolic prompting techniques, we will transform bioacoustic data into techno tracks, generating rhythms that move us to ask how dance floor practices can generate situated insights into whale relations that resist verbal and symbolic capture.

No technical background required in music production or generative AI and participation is open to artists, designers, researchers, dancers, and listeners alike. The workshop concludes with a Live Set of Brine - a form of whale-like techno. Maximum 20 participants | Registration required.

Workshop with Enrique Encinas & Johanna Schütt

17:30–18:30

Art&Science Permeations

This panel examines the boundary zones where artistic and scientific approaches intersect, entangle, or crash into one another. Bringing together researchers and practitioners working across more-than-human ecologies, technological imaginaries, and material investigation, the conversation will explore how meaningful collaboration can emerge (or not) from interdisciplinary exchange.

Rather than framing art and science as different creatures, the panel asks how their methods can become mutually generative; how artistic inquiries can expand scientific thinking, and how scientific perspectives can deepen artistic experimentation. The session opens questions related to collaborative ethics, shared vocabularies, and the value of embracing “noise” as a catalyst for new & old forms of knowledge-making.

Robertina Šebjanič, Anetta Mona Chişa, Alexander Refsum Jensenius. Moderated by Benedetta D'Ettorre.

19:00–20:00

More-than-Human Encounters: Food as Method for Reimagining Water–Society Futures

Along the coasts of the Gulf of Bothnia, relations between fishers, seals, microbes, algae, and regulatory institutions are becoming increasingly fraught. Grey seals tear open nets and reduce catches; warming waters intensify microbial blooms; parasitic worms alter the texture, quality, and value of fish. These interactions are often framed as ecological or economic “problems,” yet they also reveal a shifting landscape of more-than-human relations that contour how coastal futures are imagined and negotiated.

This performative keynote introduces food as method for sensing and engaging with these dynamics. Building on collaborative work with fishers, chefs, scientists, and public authorities, the project develops multispecies-inflected dishes that embody changing water–society relations: ferments shaped by microbial overgrowth, textures conditioned by parasitic life, flavours influenced by seal-driven trophic shifts. Rather than using food to merely represent non-human actors, the dishes invite participants to encounter them directly—tasting, smelling, and feeling ecological change as something intimate and embodied.

Food becomes a medium that translates complex multispecies interactions into experiential, discussable forms. In doing so, it enables diverse publics to meet across professional, disciplinary, and species boundaries, and to rehearse futures in which non-human agencies are acknowledged rather than backgrounded.

The keynote reflects on how such sensory and culinary experiments can expand collective understandings of water–society futures. Ultimately, it argues that the futures of the Gulf of Bothnia are co-authored by seals, microbes, fish, worms, humans, policies, and planktonic flows—and invites participants to imagine futures spacious enough for all those who shape them.

Performative Keynote Lecture by Danielle Wilde

20:30–22:00

Brine Live Set

A techno session with tracks produced by participants of the Whales of Brine workshop.

Performed by Johanna Schütt & Enrique Encinas