In his talk, Marcus Maeder describes interactions, overlaps and potential for innovation at the interfaces of art and science that deal with environmental issues. Maeder will show examples from his own projects and provide an insight into the relatively young research discipline of Ecoacoustics. Research projects in the Amazon, in the Swiss Alps and in Ireland are reflected in Maeder's media art works, which have attracted international attention and open up new, sonic perspectives on the environment.
Marcus Maeder is an artist, researcher and composer of electronic music. As an author, Maeder has written on a number of topics in the fields of sound art, acoustic ecology, artistic research and digital media. Maeder studied Fine Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences HSLU, Philosophy at the Fernuniversität in Hagen and completed his PhD in Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich. He has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss radio station SRF and as a curator, researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Maeder is visiting scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Landscape and Snow Research WSL and fellow researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. Marcus Maeder has been head of the “Knowledge to Society” major in the Master's program in Art since September 2025.
https://marcusmaeder.ch
