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Honorable Mention 2019 / Social Responsibility / Social responsibility Focus

Radioactive Live Soundscape

  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Social responsibility Focus / Social Responsibility
  • Company
    Center For Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo
  • Lead
    Hill Hiroki Kobayashi
  • Team
    Kobayashi Lab.
  • Video

According to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster report of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it is academically and socially important to conduct ecological studies concerning the levels and effects of radiation exposure on wild animal populations over several generation. The artist constructed one Acoustic Ecology Data Transmitter in Exclusion Zone (Namie, Fukushima, Japan), 10 km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. It aims to transmit and store a live stream of sound from an unmanned remote sensing station in the area.These data to prove useful for future observations.