Keynote: Clare Cooper

Chair: Pia van Gelder

Keynote: Clare Cooper
Image credit: Ryley Lawson
  • Wednesday 2025-06-25 14:30-15:30 AEST
  • Location: Kambri Cinema
  • Type: plenary

title

Future Histories of Sonic Entanglements

abstract

Cooper invites participants to spend some time in a massive, messy, evolving translocal interface comprised of millions of inputs. This keynote takes a pluriversal, wobbly 2035 as it’s starting point and walks us back to an array of present-day predicaments, assumptions, and toolkits. We’ll feed on drivers of change to navigate future contexts, and future histories.

As animated and willing participants of one slice of this hyperobject, can we poke at some of the objections and objectives that paralyse and stunt us to find out more about our entangled futures? What has been gleefully abandoned? What has been boldly launched? What has been lovingly maintained?

bio

Clare Cooper (she/her) is currently a design researcher, educator, and noise harpist. Fruitfully attention-deficit her music, design, and research has been presented in 16 countries over the last two decades. She is the co-founder of experimental arts festival the NOW now, and established large-scale improvising orchestras in Sydney (Splinter Orchestra 2001-present) and in Berlin (Splitter Orchester 2009-present), as well as the community skill-share space Frontyard Projects (2016-present) on Gadigal land.

Clare is a Senior Lecturer in Design at The University of Sydney, partnering with community health and arts organisations to create strategic advocacy campaigns using novel design futuring methods that she has developed in her research. She recently led the Australian chapter of the ERC-funded Sonic Street Technologies research project. Cooper’s research and sonic works have been published internationally.

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