JESSICA THOMPSON
Jessica joined ISIS Arts in 2015 for a 3-week research residency, where she developed Borderline: An artistic investigation of Newcastle-as-site through interstitial sonic territories.
Borderline is a site-specific investigation that examines the role of sound in community formation, particularly in areas currently undergoing social change. In Noise, Jacques Attali historicizes economic development through sound, arguing that noise serves as a precursor to social and economic change. Conditions within cities are often revealed through sound, indicating territory, demographics or functionality, and politicising urban space through its ability to invade the acoustic space of others and to affect behaviour.
Using the city of Newcastle as a starting point, the project involves three related areas of research: soundwalking through interstitial spaces, border conditions and other overlapping territories, remapping the city by interfacing sonic notation with urban API data, and, in collaboration with Lalya Gaye of Attaya Projects, the early-stage prototyping of mobile devices. By considering through spatial, social and economic indicators, and by developing notation systems that integrate with open data, Borderline adds a social dimension to the sonic environment, providing important insights into the impact of socioeconomic change on everyday experience.
Borderline is a site-specific investigation that examines the role of sound in community formation, particularly in areas currently undergoing social change. In Noise, Jacques Attali historicizes economic development through sound, arguing that noise serves as a precursor to social and economic change. Conditions within cities are often revealed through sound, indicating territory, demographics or functionality, and politicising urban space through its ability to invade the acoustic space of others and to affect behaviour.
Using the city of Newcastle as a starting point, the project involves three related areas of research: soundwalking through interstitial spaces, border conditions and other overlapping territories, remapping the city by interfacing sonic notation with urban API data, and, in collaboration with Lalya Gaye of Attaya Projects, the early-stage prototyping of mobile devices. By considering through spatial, social and economic indicators, and by developing notation systems that integrate with open data, Borderline adds a social dimension to the sonic environment, providing important insights into the impact of socioeconomic change on everyday experience.