LAMPO Artist Talk: Jana Winderen

Unthought Environments at the Renaissance Society.
This Friday evening artist talk is arranged in conjunction with Jana's performance on Saturday, April 7, when she will perform Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone—a new, live eight-channel mix of underwater sounds recorded in the marginal ice zone, or the transition between open sea and sea ice, in the Barents Sea between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters. Presented by Lampo and the Renaissance Society at STAGE Lab on the University of Chicago campus.
Jana Winderen’s live performances and immersive sound installations focus on audio topographies and ecosystems that are difficult for humans to reach, both physically and aurally. Working in diverse locations, the Norwegian artist searches for sounds from hidden sources, frequencies that aren’t usually possible for us to perceive, or places that are hard to access.
She has made recordings of sea ice at the North Pole, rivers and oceans throughout the world, and glaciers in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. Embracing the sensory possibilities of sound and the immateriality of her medium, her work generates compelling new experiences of these places while taking us beyond the normal bounds of the human senses.
Jana Winderen (b.1965, Bodø, Norway) is an artist educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the University of Oslo. Based in Oslo, Winderen has exhibited and performed internationally at major institutions in the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2011 she won the Golden Nica, Ars Electronica, for Digital Musics & Sound Art. She has recently presented a multi-channel installation in Vienna, commissioned by TBA21 Academy, and another work created for Munchmuseet on the Move, a collaboration between the Munch Museum and nyMusikk in Oslo. Other recent works have been presented by the V-A-C foundation for Geometry of Now, Moscow; the Sonic Acts festival, Amsterdam; the New York Department of Transportation at the Park Avenue Tunnel; the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Guggenheim Museum/Unsound Festival.
The Lampo series of performances is a project of Lampo, Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. Current programs are supported in part by the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, mediaThe foundation inc., the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, the John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts. Essential contributions also come from individuals, members and volunteers. 
website: http:www.lampo.org/