Learning About Images by Listening to Music with Claire Tolan

Please join us for the last online session of Learning About Images by Listening to Music in this semester. We will join the artist, programmer, and former ASMR radio show host Claire Tolan for a guided tour of her new audio play CICADA GAMES, currently in development. The audio Play will be embedded in an augmented reality app as a “A whispering about history and time, isolation and conspiracies.” as the artist calls it.

 Claire Tolan is an artist and programmer living in Berlin. Artistically, Tolan has worked primarily with ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) since 2013. Tolan hosted an ASMR radio show, “You’re Worth It”, on Berlin Community Radio from 2013-2019. She has exhibited, performed, and presented her work at venues such as Martin Gropius Bau, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berghain, Volksbuehne, CTM Festival (all Berlin), Mira Festival (Barcelona), Rokolectiv Festival (Bucharest), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich), Goethe-Institut London, ArkDes (Stockholm), and Sonar+D (Barcelona). With musician Holly Herndon, she co-wrote and performed “Lonely at the Top”, the ASMR track on Herndon’s 2015 album “Platform”. 

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