Adnan Softić. Photo: Alberto Novelli.
Ivo Tauriņš has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025 in collaboration with Goethe Institut in Riga, within the framework of Resonance of Nature project.
Adnan Softić (Germany) is a digital artist whose work blurs the boundaries between digital worlds and the physical environment. His work addresses the invisibility and communicative aspects of nature and offers a poetic and philosophical exploration of ecological issues. By utilising scientific data from polar research, his work makes it possible to experience climate-related changes in a world of sound.
Adnan Softic. KLIMATON – Listening to the Disappearing Landscape, 2023.
The residency takes place in collaboration with the Goethe Institut in Riga, within the framework of Resonance of Nature project. German artist Adnan Softić will collaborate with Latvian sound artists from Riga and Liepaja, engaging them in a joint sound composition and performance “Klimaton – Listening to the Disappearing Landscape”, using the artist’s own “climate data” instrument, which uses data from the Arctic as sound source. The residency outcomes and performance will take place at the RIXC Art Science Festival 2025, Riga.
The sound object KLIMATON ARCTIC≈ 2020 is based on a seminal event in scientific research: At the end of 2020, the research expedition MOSAiC (Alfred Wegener Institute) returned from its Arctic voyage, having spent more than a year collecting data with a kilometre-long network of measuring stations. It is the largest scientific data collection from the region ever and possibly also one of the last large-scale recording of a disappearing landscape that is considered by scientists to be “the key witness of climate change”.
The instrument is a hybrid between a sonification device and a music instrument – allowing an open approach to the data.