Ramon Amaro is in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London and a researcher in machine learning, the philosophy of mathematics, black ontologies, and philosophies of being. Amaro completed his PhD in Philosophy at Goldsmiths and holds an MA in Sociological Research from the University of Essex and a BSE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ramon Amaro is a former research fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut, and visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Netherlands.
farid rakun wears different hats, dependent on who is asking. He trained as an architect (B.Arch, Universitas Indonesia; M.Arch, Cranbrook Academy of Art) and is AA visiting lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia. rakun is also a member of the artists’ collective ruangrupa, with whom he co-curated Sonsbeek 2016’s transACTION, Arnhem, Netherlands. As an instigator, he has permeated various global institutions such as: Le Centre Pompidou, Paris; Venice Biennale; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul; Sharjah Biennial; São Paulo Biennial; Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI), Dutch Art Institute (DAI); Creative Time, New York; Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD), Geneva; and BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. He has worked for Jakarta Biennale in different capacities since 2013, and currently serves as an advisor.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
Architectures of Education is a collaboration between Nottingham Contemporary, Kingston University, and e-flux Architecture, and a cross-publication with The Contemporary Journal. An essay relating to this video is available here.