Medieteknik Live / Öppen föreläsning i Medieteknik med Emil Drougge
I den här föreläsningen berättar jag, Emil Drougge, om min resa från nyfiken nybörjare till etablerad podcastproducent. Jag går igenom de viktigaste lärdomarna från över ett decennium i branschen och visar konkret hur jag arbetar med några av de vanligaste podcastgenrerna. Föreläsningen riktar sig till både nya och erfarna poddare som vill förstå hur proffs arbetar bakom kulisserna.
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Emil Drougge driver produktionsbolaget Drougge Sound AB och har jobbat i över ett decennium i branchen. Med en egen studio i centrala Stockholm har han producerat podcasts åt bland andra Acast, Podme och Svenskt Tenn. Emil har även arbetat med produktioner som Johannes Hansen Podcast, Polar Music Prize Podcast och Kaliber.
Atmospheric Forest: Immersive Visualizations of Climate Experiences
15 oktober, 2025
Medieteknik Live / Öppen föreläsning i Medieteknik med with Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits
In Atmospheric Forest, artistic research meets climate science through immersive visualization and sonic data interpretation. The VR work explores the interplay between the forest ecosystem and the atmosphere through VOC (volatile organic compound) emissions. Building on findings from the Atmospheric Forest research project (2017–2021), we are now launching a new phase with the SNSF-funded project Immersion Studies of Climate Experience (2025–2028). This stage investigates how invisible processes—such as forest ecosystem data and climate modeling, both past and future—can be experienced sensorially. Our immersive data “sensorializations” challenge perception and invite new ways to sense and reflect on the atmospheric dimensions of climate change, reaching beyond the natural environment into its deep social and cultural effects.
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Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists working at the intersection of art, science, and immersive technologies. Co-founders of the Riga-based RIXC Center for New Media Culture, curators of its international festivals, and co-editors of the Acoustic Space / Renewable Futures publication series, they have gradually expanded their activities internationally and are currently based between Riga (Latvia), Karlsruhe (Germany), and Basel/Zurich (Switzerland). Both hold PhDs: Rasa Smite in sociology of media and culture—she is a professor at RTU Liepaja Academy and currently a researcher and lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK); and Raitis Smits in art—he is a professor at the Art Academy of Latvia. They have been active educators and guest lecturers internationally, including at MIT in Boston (2018–2021), where they continue to contribute by sharing their artistic research case studies. As an artist duo, they collaborate with scientists to create immersive XR artworks that combine scientific data visualization, spatial sound, and multi-sensory experience. Their works critically explore AI–nature relations and address ecological and climate change issues. Artworks such as Biotricity. Pond Battery (2014), Swamp Radio (2018), Atmospheric Forest (2020), Deep Sensing (2023), and Solarceptors (2025) have been widely exhibited and internationally recognized, receiving nominations and awards including the Prix Ars Electronica and Falling Walls – Science Breakthrough in Art and Science distinction. http://smitesmits.com | http://rixc.org
