Open Talk | Science featuring Art:
A Combined Approach to Raise Awareness for Coral Conservation and Restoration
Meet Jana Winderen, CORDAP’S first artist in residence
Thursday, November 23, 2023
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209
Art possesses the unique ability to captivate, educate and mobilize humankind. It creates an emotional connection between people and a cause. The goal of G20 CORDAP is to accelerate and scale up R&D in coral restoration and conservation worldwide to save the corals. Jana Winderen has joined our mission as CORDAP’s first artist in residence. CORDAP is headquartered at KAUST and Jana has joined us this month to capture the sound of corals in the Red Sea with the help of Prof. Carlos Duarte’s lab.
We have organized an inspirational talk for the KAUST community as part of her visit to KAUST. In this talk, Jana Winderen and KAUST Ph.D. student Michelle-Nicole Havlik will explore how art can assist science in delivering effective and engaging messages for ocean conservation, particularly for coral conservation and restoration. We will learn more about Jana’s work and residency, and the research #ForCoral that’s being done at KAUST.
About the speakers
Jana Winderen
With a background in mathematics, chemistry, and fish ecology, Jana’s art pays particular attention to audio environments and creatures that are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep underwater, inside ice, or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear. Her activities include site-specific and spatial audio installations and concerts, exhibited and performed internationally in major institutions and public spaces, such as the Dive in Park Avenue Tunnel in New York and Ultrafield for MoMA, New York.
Discover more: janawinderen.com & janawinderen.bandcamp.com
Michelle-Nicole Havlik
Michelle is a Ph.D. student in the Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair Lab (TAJRC) at KAUST. Her Ph.D. studies in KAUST focus on the benefits of assessing marine environments using Passive Acoustic Monitoring and underwater biological sounds such as fish calls. She works primarily on coral reefs and seagrass soundscapes in the Red Sea. With a background in music, Michelle is also passionate about science communication, having created songs and musical compositions in artistic collaboration with the Artist in Labs program, among others.