Seismic Palavers – Dominika Glogowski, 2024

Dominika’s research explores seismic communication and signalling theory related to the subsurface. How do we communicate with the underground? Is there circular reciprocity in signal extraction, the interpretation of transmitted information, responses and actions taken to the signals, and their transfer back to the underground?

Asymmetric information and conflicting interests lead to both honest and dishonest signals in business, investment, and speculation. Behavioral finance studies our communication pool and decision-making strategies. In the rational and reductionist world of cost efficiency and profit, which demands effective data transmission, signals appear to be the most diminutive particle for conveying information. However, seismic communication reveals a macrocosm of frequencies, impulses, magnitudes, wavelengths and noises that must be interpreted to induce action. The research on Seismic Palavers explores meta-layers of cognition, signals and action in the trans-action between the subsurface at the service of humans and the financial and market mechanisms above the surface to establish new subterranean dialogue channels that embrace our underworld.

Dominika has professional backgrounds in visual arts, art history, and arts management. She devises and supervises art-science-industry projects that stimulate critical and embodied experiences and interaction on subjects concerning the energy transition and the extraction of natural resources. In her reflective art-science practice, she employs performative dialogue formats, conversation techniques, and deep speech listening. Dominika has collaborated with research institutions (KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research Austria), the mining industry (Cornish Lithium Ltd., UK), and universities (Montanuniversität Leoben, Unicamp, USP São Paulo, Brazil).
 

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