# Event Details - **Event Name**: Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 27 Jun, 2026 at 04:30 pm – Sat, 27 Jun, 2026 at 05:30 pm - **Event Description**: What kind of planet would the planetisation of machine listening make? Microphones and loudspeakers are being laced through the biosphere. AI systems monitor forests, oceans, reefs and skies, all in the name of a cybernetic ecology. But who governs this listening infrastructure? Who is heard, and what does it even mean to be heard? What is unheard? In this lecture-performance presented in response to their installation Environments 12, Machine Listening — James Parker, Joel Stern and Sean Dockray — bring together ideas from Parker's text The Planetization of Machine Listening and the collective's audiovisual instrument Konvolute, a tool for composing with cut-up video and environmental datasets in real time. The three artists will critically feed the essay’s argument back through performance and media improvisation to complicate it, testing the lecture’s claims against the grain of the material, letting the software push back, introduce noise, and open questions the words alone cannot quite hold. Free | Bookings Essential: https://shop.govettbrewster.com/products/environmentality-a-lecture-performance-by-machine-listening Bio: Machine Listening is a platform for collaborative research and artistic experimentation, founded in 2020 by Sean Dockray, James Parker, and Joel Stern in order to subject automated systems to political and aesthetic scrutiny. The collective works across writing, installation, performance, music, software, curation, pedagogy, and radio. Their work has been presented at major institutions including ACCA (Melbourne), Cricoteka Tadeusz Kantor Museum (Kraków), Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Galerie Nord (Berlin), RMIT Design Hub (Melbourne), and MUMA (Melbourne), also performing at Unsound Festival, Soft Centre, and Melbourne Recital Centre. Image: Machine Listening Environments 12, 2023–25. 8-channel sound installation, 35 minutes, LP record sleeves. courtesy of the artists, Naarm Melbourne. First commissioned for Wild Hope: Conversations for a Planetary Commons, RMIT Design Hub, Naarm Melbourne. Design Stuart Geddes. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-plymouth/environmentality-a-lecture-performance-by-machine-listening/200030159927458 - **Event Categories**: art, performances, festivals, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 8 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: New Plymouth - **state**: TK - **country**: New Zealand - **location**: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre - **lat**: -39.058722592736 - **long**: 174.07007405353 - **full address**: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, 42 Queen Street,New Plymouth, New Zealand ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/40e3d014878a83988e6fbf586af96f060f634cd5136429b63ac41e89e00781ec-rimg-w1200-h1200-dcf3bf31-gmir?v=1782157253 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening being held? - **A:** Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening takes place on Sat, 27 Jun, 2026 at 04:30 pm to Sat, 27 Jun, 2026 at 05:30 pm at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, 42 Queen Street,New Plymouth, New Zealand. - **Q**: Who is organizing Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening? - **A:** Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening is organized by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New Plymouth, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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