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MEH: The Museum of Extratemporal Harkening
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Departing from the Vancouver Public Library Atrium – Central Branch (350 W. Georgia Street, inside the main building entrance)
Helena Krobath and Brady Marks’ soundwalk will map improvised explorations of public space together with interactive narrative and sound art to build a speculative gaming and storytelling experience. Designed for an iconic Vancouver location, but playable anywhere in the world.
MEH: The Museum of Extratemporal Harkening is an experimental soundwalk that blends real-world exploration together with scripted audio fiction, soundscape composition, and elements of game play. Conceived and created by Helena Krobath and Brady Marks, it also features fiction by speculative author Tash McAdam.
We invite guests to experience the story and fictional museum together, while moving at their own pace through the architectures and sounds of Vancouver Public Library.
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Supported by British Columbia Arts Council.
Helena Krobath is an artist, editor, and educator drawing on sensory experience and recomposition to consider presences, environments and narratives. Helena is the sound designer and audio post producer for Invisible Institutions podcast. Her electroacoustic fictions and radio art have been recently presented by Arts Assembly, Publik Secrets, and NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art), among others, and her audio essay on hearing political economic realities during COVID-19 was published in the Journal of Design and Culture’s special issue on Covid Materialities. Helena has led soundwalks with Vancouver Soundwalk Collective and Vancouver New Music since 2015 and developed workshops on audio storytelling, including for Nuxalk Radio in Bella Coola, Megaphone Magazine in Vancouver, and VIVO Media Arts Centre.
Brady Marks is a computational artist working primarily in audiovisual practices, new media and kinect art. Thematically her work engages critically with the fallibility and promise of technology, perspectives of place – virtual/actual, ecological and narratives of self orientation in the sciences.
Brady is concerned with how we live our lives in the face of technological encroachment; to that end, she experiments with media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies. Along this way she takes her audiences behind the curtain, provides tools for technological play, educates and explores hypothetical new relationships for us with our tech. This is what she means when she calls herself a Cultural Prototyper.
She obtained an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Masters in Interactive Arts from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. As a graduate of Simon Fraser University taught by faculty including original members of the World Soundscape Project (WSP), and as a member of the Soundscape Collective at Vancouver Co-operative Radio, Brady Marks is an inheritor of the WSP legacy of Acoustic Ecology. She is a frequent host of Soundscape on Co-op Radio, member of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble, curator of the Coda series of live coding events and DJs Queer Dance Music.
Vancouver is situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
