Metopia is a project investigating ways to create sonic interfaces to mediate environments with a focus on air and pollution. This is a project exploring new modes of listening in urban spaces and experiencing data from polluted atmospheres. The creation of new experiences of the world we live in, with an increasing amount of data flows and processes, is also part of the future of music. We increasingly engage in a post-human world of rhythms from environments, such as changes in climate, air and pollution, viruses, spores, and electro-magnetic propagation. A set of sonic interfaces using machine learning to experience atmospheres that escapes the basic human perception have been created in this project to investigate human presence in a polluted environment mediated by sound, and a series of ontological interfaces.
This research has been presented at conferences such as International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in 2016, Utrecht, and in Daegu 2018. It was also presented as a Keynote speaker at Arts in the Environment, 2017 in Helsinki. In Riga it has been presented at the Open Fields Conference 16/17/20, and at the International Conference on Auditory Display 2015, in Graz. The very first academic conference it was presented at was The Internet of Things: The Philosophy 14 at York University, UK. It has been presented at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ISEA in 14/15/16/19.
Eva Sjuve is an artist, designer and developer, who has been working with embodied technologies since the late 1990s. Her work has been commissioned for the Performa 07 Biennale in New York, and has been included in museum exhibits in Europe, Asia, Australia, USA and South America, including the Australian Center of Contemporary Art 1996/2000, Melbourne, Australia; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art 1998, Helsinki, Finland; CAEIT Experiments in Art, Information and Technology 2000, California Institute of the Arts, USA; The Museum of Contemporary Arts 2004, Chicago, USA; City Exhibition Hall 2000, Sydney, and at the National Museum of Fine Arts 2006, Havana, Cuba. She also presented her urban artwork at the Hybrid City conference in 2013 in Athens and MediaCity 2010 at Bauhaus University, Dresden.