(Norsk-English only version available) Which seabird resembles Evil Knevil or Karl Lagerfeld? In 2068, will X and your grandkids meet kittiwakes, guillemots, and eider ducks only in virtual nature? Hear Framsenteret biologists Jan Ove Bustnes and Tone Reiertsen describe how seabirds translate changes in the flow of energy and life in marine ecosystems. Are we listening? 

LINKS and more here: https://hellox.me/podcast/40027001/
English version: https://hellox.me/podcast/39955832/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/message2X/
Virtual Nature part 1 explores how climate change is impacting birds on remote Arctic island nesting sites of circumpolar seabirds. The idea for virtual nature was proposed by the hello X creative team as a substitute for going outdoors, and a way to commemorate places and animals, like many populations of seabirds, that are currently in decline. In Virtual Nature part 2, you will hear a conversation between host and hello X creative director Christine Cynn with novelist Sigbjorn Skåden and game designer Ismet Bachtiar about the genesis and meaning of virtual nature in the X fiction world (now in development). 

We will hear stories from two researchers who have spent their lifetimes studying guillemots, eider ducks, kittiwakes, among other species. Jan Ove Bustnes (working for NINA-Norwegian Inst. for Nature Research affiliated with the Fram Centre flagship project on Hazardous Substances) and Tone Reiertsen (NINA and Fram flagship project on ‘Effects of climate change on coastal ecology in the North).
Listen as Jan Ove and Tone speak about their experiences on Bjørnøya (Bear Island) at the far end of the Svalbard Archipeligo in the Barents Sea, and Hornøya (Horn Island) on the far northern shore of the Norwegian mainland.

(Norsk/Engelsk) Virtual Nature part 1

Which seabird resembles Evil Knevil or Karl Lagerfeld? In 2068, will X and your grandkids meet kittiwakes, guillemots, and eider ducks only in virtual nature? Hear @Framsenteret biologists @Jan Ove Bustnes and @Tone Reiertsen describe how seabirds translate changes in the flow of energy and life in marine ecosystems. Are we listening? 

Virtual Nature part 1 explores how climate change is impacting birds on remote Arctic island nesting sites of circumpolar seabirds. The idea for virtual nature was proposed by the hello X creative team as a substitute for going outdoors, and a way to commemorate places and animals, like many populations of seabirds, that are currently in decline. In Virtual Nature part 2, you will hear a conversation between host and hello X creative director Christine Cynn with novelist Sigbjorn Skåden and game designer Ismet Bachtiar about the genesis and meaning of virtual nature in the X fiction world (now in development). 

We will hear stories from two researchers who have spent their lifetimes studying guillemots, eider ducks, kittiwakes, among other species. Jan Ove Bustnes (working for NINA-Norwegian Inst. for Nature Research affiliated with the Fram Centre flagship project on Hazardous Substances) and Tone Reiertsen (NINA and Fram flagship project on ‘Effects of climate change on coastal ecology in the North).

Listen as Jan Ove and Tone speak about their experiences on Bjørnøya (Bear Island) at the far end of the Svalbard Archipeligo in the Barents Sea, and Hornøya (Horn Island) on the far northern shore of the Norwegian mainland. 

LINKS and more about hello X at https://hellox.me/podcast/39955832/
Prefer a version without English overdub of Norwegian speech? See our bonus version with NO English overdub: https://hellox.me/podcast/40027001/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/message2X/

Virtual Nature part 1

Will your grandkids build only digital sandcastles? What ghosts may roam the riverbanks of tomorrow's virtual nature? Hear Sami-language novelist Sigbjørn Skåden and game designer Ismet Bachtiar and host Christine Cynn how the idea of virtual nature entered the X fiction world, now being developed for publication in 2019. Personalize a scenario with the online story generator on the hello X WRITE page.

Virtual nature was originally proposed by writer Sigbjørn Skåden as a substitute for the actual outdoors for X in 2068 in Northern Norway. Ismet and Christine are currently setting a new short story within the fictional virtual nature for an augmented reality story experience X50, to be launched in central Tromsø autumn 2019. Listen to the three discuss privatization, sea level rise, nostalgia and loss in the Arctic. We discuss what places we might like to upload into virtual nature for X, and the stories attached to these places.

Virtual nature is one element in a fiction world being developed in experimental story workshops with writers, artists, scientists and young people in Northern Norway and internationally. The first story experiments date back to 2011 and became intensive in 2016 as the core project of the startup arts/media organization Ice-9 in Tromsø, Northern Norway. For more information listen to episode 1: Who is X? and read ABOUT hello X and Ice-9 here: https://hellox.me/about/ 

More from Sigbørn Skåden on the ghost children that live on the riverbanks by his childhood home in Northern Norway (from  https://www.versopolis-poetry.com/poet/67/sigbjrn-skden)

Notes From a Backwoods Saami Core (from 19 to 24)

Note 19

Down by a place where two rivers meet there is a meadow. If the time is right he who passes here will hear infants crying. These are the unwanted new-borns, left here to die by a desperate father or mother. Every seventh year these children return to the place where they were abandoned. We call them eahpádusak, human apocrypha trapped between existing and never having existed. That is why they return. That is why they cry. Only by performing an ancient baptising ritual all may be alleviated. Only then it will all be over.

 

Original text prepared for a workshop with teenagers in Longyearbyen, Svalbard October 2018 by Sigbjørn Skåden with performance maker Leo Kay (UK). More about the development of this character and scenario in the hello X MEET forum: https://forum.hellox.me/t/x-in-arctic-city-working-for-a-multinational-water-corporation/51

Virtual Nature part2

Find out what it means to take care of our oceans with Vilma Havas, the founder of the Nordic Ocean Watch and the Lofoten-Diving.com Ballstad and Svolvaer, cleaning up Nusfjord harbour in Lofoten, in North of Norway. You will also meet marine biologist Marthe Larsen Haarr, who does research on marine litter at SALT. The plastic problem is accumulating at 15tons per second, so we need your help!

Watch Lofoten Diving Club and Vilma of NOW dive for trash on hello X YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9775UtZIl0&t=5s
or here on FB: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=336688107177089

Special thanks to Vilma Havas of Nordic Ocean Watch and Marthe Larsen Haar of SALT. Thanks also to Lofoten Diving and the team of divers including: Daniel Visnovsky, Aleksander Burns, Andreas Neverdal, Damian Ćwik, Marius Magnussen and Welat Horori. Episode artwork by Valentin Manz / Ice-9. Tavaha episode music by theta orogen on nopatience records (https://theta007.bandcamp.com/album/theta )
and Tom Arthurs / Isambard Khroustaliov on Not Applicable
(http://not-applicable.bandcamp.com/)

#iamfromthefuture #helloX #plastic #Pollution #WaterPollution #PlasticFree

links and full credits on https://hellox.me/podcast/41921739/

#TAVAHA

therefore I exist.
How do you feel...now, dig deep...how do you FEEL about a world without polar bears, bees or whales? How much should we care about the decline of seagulls who annoy us at outdoor cafés? Are we all in the same boat? Listen to scientists and others philosophizing, talking science and emotions at Fritt Fram, an open day at FRAM - the high north research centre for climate and the environment, in Tromsø, Northern Norway. 
In this episode we meet Rosemary, Ken and Katherine from the UK chatting and laughing about turning 70, about the past, future and being in the same boat. We talk to marine biologist Pedro Duarte (Norwegian Polar Institute and member of Fram flagship on Sea Ice), dancer Mathilda Caeyers and producer Marina Borovaya (Ice-9) about whales, climate change and species disappearing. We talk about the link between science, art and emotions. 
Pedro brings up the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio @damasiousc, who wrote ‘Descartes Error’, where he demonstrates that emotions are essential to rational thinking and normal social behaviour. 

Links: 

Blue whale: physical description, behaviour, history and recovery of populations: http://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/cetaceans/about/blue_whale/ 

Trailer to the theatre play ‘Sykle i snøstorm’, at Hålogaland theatre in Tromsø (referred to by Marina): https://youtu.be/_oeyCR2D_Ck 

Descartes Error, by (neuroscientist) Antonio Damasio: https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human/dp/014303622X

Photos and more info at: https://hellox.me/podcasts/

Credits:

HelloX partners include: 
Tromsø municipality 
The Nansen legacy research project
The North Norwegian Art Museum
Norwegian art council
Sparebanken Kulturnæringsstiftelsen

Fram - the High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment with it’s flagships: 
1. Environmental impact of industrial development in the north (MIKON)
2. Effects of climate change on sea and coastal ecology in the north
3.Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, technology and agreements, 
4.Hazardous substances – effects on ecosystems and human health,
5.Effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, landscapes, society and indigenous peoples

Music by Metatag 

Hello X is supported by: 
The Norwegian art council, 
Sparebank Northern Norway, 
The free speach foundation
Innovation Norway  
Koro -public art norway.   

Hello x is produced by Ice-9, with: 
Christine Cynn, Anneli Stiberg and Valentin Manz. 
Associate producers include Marina Borovaya and Annika Wistrøm. 
Sound mix by Nathanael Gustin.
Digital design by Ismet Bachtiar
Storygenerator developed by Furkle Industries

I feel...

Our last full episode for season one of the hello X podcast will be in Norwegian, but fear not, you can find an english transcript of the episode here: https://hellox.me/podcast/44516061/ . Scroll down to ‘English transcript, The innocents”. Christine will be back in a few weeks with a short 'podlet' with an update on the the AR story experience, climate strikes and more.
Googler en bilder av ‘arktisk tundra’ vil en kanskje med første øyekast tenke at “her finnes det ikke mye liv”. Men ser en litt nærmere, vil en finne et mangfold av dyr og planter. Noen av disse er truet på grunn av klimaendringer. Hva skjer hvis en art minsker i antall eller...forsvinner helt? Hva kan det gjøre med resten av økosystemet den er en del av?
Kunstner Marit Landsend (keramiker basert på Troms Fylkeskultursenter, Tromsø) og forsker Dorothee Ehrich (Klimaøkologisk Obsersvasjonssystem for Arktisk Tundra - COAT, UiT) ønsker begge å utforske disse temaene, fra hvert sitt ståsted. Vi blir med de inn i en samtale om klimaendringer, fjellrev og smågnagere på den arktiske tundraen, og spør: hva kan vi mennesker gjøre?

De uskyldige

Imagine the lives of the future. X is a young woman in the future Arctic. What food will X eat in fifty years? How might X’s world be shaped by our actions today? Join the hello X creative team as they talk to scientists and other special guests about the evolving role of humans in the ecosystems of spaceship Earth, especially in the High North. These monthly discussions inspire and inform the development of new short fiction about the many potential lives of X.

hello X is a participatory story laboratory based in Tromsø, Northern Norway. Listeners are invited to contribute to the stories online at www.helloX.me.

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