[spectre] Book launch FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANT-NOSED FISH.

[mail at susannahertrich.com]

Dear spectre community, 

// Sorry, for cross-posting //

I am happy to announce the printed version of our book!

Susanna Hertrich / Shintaro Miyazaki
FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANT-NOSED FISH.
REIMAGINING OUR SENSORIUM
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120 pages
14 × 21 cm
paperback
english

DIAMONDPAPER
2022
ISBN 978-3-9817925-5-3

15 €

https://diamondpaper.de/title_32


Read the book online or download free PDF:
https://doi.org/10.26254/med/6301


This book presents an artistic research project called “Sensorium of 
Animals” that comprises media archaeological studying, technological 
experimentation, an art installation, and two short films. The project 
was conducted by Susanna Hertrich and Shintaro Miyazaki from 2016 to 
2019 at the Critical Media Lab, Institute of Experimental Design and 
Media Cultures, at the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel, 
Switzerland.

We were inspired by the elephant-nose fish’s sensory ecology – a species 
that can make sense of its environment through self-generated 
electromagnetic (EM) fields. We intertwined this fish’s cyborgian, even 
electronics-like trait with the seemingly immaterial worlds of our 
signal-based information technologies. We wanted to ask if it could be 
possible to engineer and cultivate the EM sense similar to that of the 
elephant-nose fish for the human sensory apparatus? What kind of future 
society would unfold through the design of such altered sensory 
capabilities? Or conversely, what kind of society would develop the 
necessity for such sensory capabilities?

The book mirrors this interdisciplinary research’s different approaches 
and divides itself into several parts. Part one presents itself in a 
twofold way a theory-poetry (a rhapsody) and a theory-fiction (a short 
fictional scenario of our future). Part two is an in-depth theoretical 
exploration of the research project and its contexts. This part also 
features selected project documentation, such as a selection of images, 
exhibition views and video stills showing the objects, graphics, and 
diagrams we created.


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FOLLOWING THE ELEPHANT-NOSED FISH.
REIMAGINING OUR SENSORIUM

Book launch in Berlin
Friday 6th of May 2022 
from 6 pm
at Diamondpaper Publishers, Köpenicker 
Str. 96 in Berlin. 


Yours,
Susanna Hertrich
mail at susannahertrich.com