Beyond Human: Liz K. Miller & Jon Mason

Technecast

This is the second episode celebrating Beyond Human Symposium, which was organised by Rachel Holmes, Rachel Hopkin, Liz K. Miller, Jon Mason and Simon Aeppli. Beyond Human was a techne-funded symposium held at Royal Holloway, University of London on the 26th and 27th May 2022, with keynote speakers the writer and researcher, Gyrus, and the filmmaker and lecturer, Roz Mortimer.This episode features a conversation between Liz and Jon about the themes that the symposium engaged in, around landscape, the paranormal, and connecting with non-human or beyond human forms.More information about Beyond Human:www.facebook.com/BeyondHuman.Symposiumlizkmiller.wixsite.com/beyond-human*Liz K. Miller (b. 1983, Hexham) is an artist and researcher whose audio-visual practice spans diagramming, field recording, print and pigment making. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art (BA), Camberwell College of Art (MA), and was a print fellow at the Royal Academy Schools (2013 to 2016). In 2018 she was awarded an AHRC Techné scholarship to undertake a practice-based PhD at the Royal College of Art. Her research considers how listening to the sounds made by trees can reconnect humans to the forest, and how the combination of audio and visual can be used to enhance that connection.Instagram: @liz_k_millerwww.lizkmiller.comwww.rca.ac.uk/students/liz-k-miller/Jon Mason is a professional storyteller with a longstanding focus on the folklore and history of place, and the role of myth in humanity’s understanding of life. He has a BA Hons in History with Archaeology from the University of Wales, Bangor, and an MA in Contemporary History from the University of Sussex. He is currently undertaking a Techne-funded PhD at the University of Brighton entitled “Re-storying the city: applying urban perspectives to eco-storytelling.”Twitter: @jonmaseFacebook: "Jon Mason Stories and Music"jonthestoryteller.com/research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/jon-mason*Image credit: Rachel HolmesThe Technecast: technecast.wixsite.com/listen/cfp / contact: [e-mail] / twitter: technecastThe Technecast is funded by the Techne AHRC-DTP, and edited by Julien Clin, Felix Clutson, Edwin Gilson & Polly Hember.Episode introduced and edited by Polly Hember / twitter: pollyhemberRoyalty free music generously shared by Steve Oxen. FesliyanStudios.com