Anna Nacher
Anna Nacher, PhD, is an associate professor at the Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include digital culture, cultural theory, media art, sound studies and e-literature. She is currently pursuing a 3-year long research project on the aesthetics of post-digital imagery on a grant from Polish National Science Centre. The author of three books, Nasher’s most recent work, published in 2016, focused on the locative media image. A reworked version of one chapter has been published as “Internet of Things and Automation of Imaging: Beyond Representationalism” in “Communication+1”, vol. 5 (2016). In 2018, she served as a member on the jury for the Electronic Literature Organization’s N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature. She is also a part-time musician and sound artist interested in field recordings.
Residency: Getty PST ART 2024 X UCLA Art|Sci Center
Proposal
Library of Breath, a sound installation and ongoing research project, will exhibit in UCLA’s CNSI (California NanoScience Institute) venue with a sound walk incorporated throughout campus.
Jan 1st, 2022 | Artist in Residence: Anna Nacher, Launch of the BREATH LIBRARY
This is the first of three New Year celebrations:
February 1st, Lunar
March 3rd, Tibetan
Donate your Breath Recording here
This workshop will explore how a human vocalization, which is nothing else than amplified and conscious breathing, can become a practice of inquiry into the planetary water cycle. The human body is a fluid phenomenon, not only because the average amount of water in human organism ranges between 45-75%, depending on the particular organ or tissue (majority of which constitutes intracellular fluid), but also because it is incorporated into the planetary cycle, in which water constantly changes from liquid to vapor to ice, circulating around, through, and above the Earth. Through a simple act of breathing we may participate in the whole range of scales and time flows: for the terrestrial atmosphere, a given water molecule, the one we breathe in and breathe out as oxygen, might spend in the atmosphere 15-23 days on the average. What if the way we breathe and vocalize impacts the water cycles? Can we turn our bodies into water cycles measuring units and the instruments of cooperation with weather patterns? What if even the tiniest movement of the oxygen in our nostrils and lungs and even the slightest resonation of the vocal cords, chest, and abdomen can affect a rainstorm? Meditating on such questions may provide an interesting departure point for both scientific inquiry and embodied practice of breathing and vocalizing.
Mar 20th, 2021 | Artist in Residence: Anna Nacher, Breath to Flow
UCLA Art|Sci Center presents: Anna Nacher, artist in residence workshop: Breathe to Flow.
The ways we, as humans, participate in the vibrational fields and flows of energy of the Planet Earth is embodied practice, even if the process often remains somewhat mysterious, unnoticed or unacknowledged. This workshop will explore how a human vocalization, which is nothing else than amplified and conscious breathing, can become a practice of inquiry into the planetary water cycle.
Oct 29th, 2020 | UCLA Art|Sci and Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talk
Now that time zones are all mixed up, we meet during our lunch and dinner for Europe. This gathering will feature our inaugural Atmosphere of Sound artist-in-residence, BILL FONTANA (San Francisco), along with George Quasha (New York), John Beaulieu (New York), Carlo Ventura (Italy), Anna Nacher (Slovakia), and Nina Waisman (Los Angeles). We will be addressing their research and work with sound, vibration, and frequencies in relation to healing and ecology. Hosted and moderated by UCLA Art Sci director, Victoria Vesna (Los Angeles).
Oct 2nd, 2020 | Panel: Vibrations, Frequencies & Ecotistical Art Sci, with Victoria Vesna and Artist in Residence Anna Nacher
The online discussion accompanying Victoria Vesna’s exhibition “Noise Aquarium” in CCA LAZNIA in Gdansk/Poland (www.laznia.pl). Creators of the “Noise Aquarium” project, as well as invited artists and scientists researching on sound, sea, oceans, marine animals and plankton will participate in the panel discussion.
Further Involvement: UCLA Art|Sci Center
Nov 26th, 2021 | [Alien] Star Dust: Signal to Noise at Cyfest in St. Petersburg, with Victoria Vesna, Anna Nacher, Rhiannon Catalyst, Dasha Dafis, Paul Geluso, Clinton van Arman, Debora Isaac, Eli Joteva, Ivana Dama, and John Brumley
[ALIEN] STAR DUST: Signal to Noise has evolved from a site-specific installation into a global, collaborative and participatory virtual guided meditation bringing participants into a space of healing and transcendence through visuals and vibrations. Due to times of crisis and quarantine it became evident that the connection is more vital than ever and stardust became the medium and the metaphor for contemplation and connectivity.
This meditation is created by the artist specifically for CYFEST-13 and will focus on the Chelyabinsk meteor that fell in 2013. Audiences are guided to follow the breakup of the meteor and stay centered as all falls apart, and the star dust is mixed up with various anthropogenic dust. Before the meditation, there will be a talk about the project followed by Q&A after the collective gathering of minds.
Nov 5th, 2022 | Art|Sci Sound Walk at TEDx Manhattan Beach, by Patricia Cadavid, Anna Nacher, Ivana Dama, Clarissa Ribeiro, and Victoria Vesna
The audience is invited to a guided sound walk from the North side of the TEDx Exhibition to the South side. This unique sound walk creates a connection and opens a conversation between ocean and space. All visitors will have a chance to experience a collaborative composition by Patricia Cadavid, Anna Nacher, Ivana Dama, Clarissa Ribeiro and Victoria Vesna.
June 2nd, 2020 | Noise Aquarium – Online Meditation and Fundraiser – Oxygen for South Asia, with Clinton Van Arnam, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Victoria Vesna, Anna Nacher, John Brumley, and Ivana Dama
This collective/distributed meditation is an online version of Noise Aquarium, which evolved during the pandemic and was first presented by the Laznia gallery in Gdansk, Poland. We are all interconnected and we all need air to breathe – no matter what our philosophical/ political stance. The invisible virus has turned our world upside down, and we turn our attention to the micro-creatures that give us life. The Noise Aquarium installation is all about achieving inner balance in order to commune with plankton. Now that we cannot be there in person, we try to do the same by connecting online.
Victoria Vesna (New York) and Siddharth Ramakrishnan (Seattle) are joined by Anna Nacher (Slovakia), Rhiannon Catalyst (New York), John Brumley (Birmingham, UK), and Ivana Dama and Clinton van Arman (Los Angeles) who will create a live binaural sonic layering on the animations of plankton by Martina Fröschl.
We invite participation from all across the world to breathe together in rhythm, as we listen and dive into the interconnected ecology of the collective mind and share frequencies of healing amidst all the noise.
Victoria and Siddharth would like to draw your mind to the suffering in South Asia, caused by the lack of medical facilities, primarily the shortage of medical oxygen, in the fight against COVID-19. They have provided a list of organizations you could support to help in the effort to provide oxygen and other life-saving interventions.
Disasters Emergency Committee Coronavirus Appeal
UNICEF India COVID-19 Appeal