AquaSonics: The noisy ocean

Discover the importance of sound to marine life 

Join us:

August 18th at 2pm

at the Classroom, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Huskisson

Dr Nigel Helyer is a sound artist and an expert in Art and Science collaborations. His 90-minute talk will start with an introduction to underwater acoustics followed by a survey of some of the many ways marine life relies upon sound, for example in communication, navigation, predation and reproduction, and a discussion about the effects of anthropogenic sound underwater and the consequent effects on marine habitats. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers.

This event is a fundraiser for Our Future Shoalhaven. Tickets are donation-based starting from $10. Entrance fee includes afternoon tea.

There is a limit of 35 places for this event.

Visit Nigel Helyer's exhibition at the Museum before or after the talk!

Who is Dr Nigel Helyer?

Dr. Nigel Helyer is an internationally prominent sculptor and sound artist, whose interdisciplinary practice combines art and science to embrace our social, cultural and physical environments. He brings these concerns together in creative projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place; inviting us to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it. Principal web archive.

Nigel is a strong advocate for experimental art and is a specialist in Art and science collaborations. He is also active in critical thought and is a prolific contributor to journals, conferences and broadcasts. He is a board member of the Paris based Association Internationale de Critiques d’Art and was the founding editor and publisher of PraxisM the contemporary art journal of Western Australia. Nigel  has authored several books, including Crayvox, The Deluge Ark(ive), Culturescape: An Ecology of Bundanon and When Science Meets Art.  His writing embraces speculative fiction including the Graphic Novel Sonique and the novel Freeze Frame, a fiction about the relationship of Cinema and the Afterlife - designed to be accompanied by a forthcoming exhibition of the same name.