Diana Chester is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Art, Communication, and English at the University of Sydney, and a research fellow at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney, Australia.
Through recorded sounds, vibration, and sonified data, Diana listens for, and documents more-than-human memories and stories held in the earth. This work is focussed on polar regions in Antarctica and Iceland and supported through ongoing partnerships with the Australia Antarctic Division, the Sydney Environment Institute, and Arts Iceland. Diana has contributed to the soon to be released album, “Polar Sounds,” will be exhibiting the new collaborative work “Sub_Merge,” at the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in 2023 and is the Vice President for the World Listening Project. Through a visiting scholar position with Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, this work is currently being compiled into an object-biography of Earth.
