In this episode, we talk with French field recordist and artist Mélia Roger about her film Dear Phonocene, currently featured in the Projected Ecologies program within the exhibition Pulsar at MUCA in Mexico City. Mélia shares how the work emerged from over a decade of listening to the monoculture Douglas fir plantations near her parents’ home, spaces she describes as “post-natural” and marked by biodiversity loss. Blending fiction, performance, and documentary, the project imagines “acoustic enrichment” as a form of care—playing back past soundscapes to acknowledge what has been lost. We discuss her collaboration with other women recordists, the role of human presence and “noisy non-self” in the film’s soundscape, and the interplay between slow listening and the fast pace of image-making. Mélia reflects on grief, hope, and tenderness in altered landscapes, the technical and ethical dimensions of playback, and her evolving research on post-natural listening within her PhD work. Plus, we hear about her upcoming explorations of cetacean sound in the Canary Islands.

Mélia Roger (*1996, she/her) is a field recordist and artist engaged to inspire ecological change with environmental and empathic listening. Her work explores the sonic poetics of the landscape, searching for the invisible layers between human and non-humans. Coming from a sound engineering background (ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris, ZHdK in Zurich), Mélia is developing a twofold activity between immersive 7.0.2 sound recordings within HAL, as well as a more experimental and naturalistic approach to listening. Now at Le Fresnoy, she is a practice-based PhD candidate at the University of Lille, focusing on the relations between sound arts and acoustic ecology.

https://www.meliaroger.com/portfolio/project-two-llrgk-blz6c
https://www.instagram.com/meliarog/
https://muca.unam.mx/pulsar.html
https://www.lydianstater.co/projected-ecologies

In this episode, we talk with New York–based visual artist Dakota Gearhart about her four-part animated video series Life Touching Life, currently featured in the Projected Ecologies program within the exhibition Pulsar at MUCA in Mexico City. We discuss the show’s algae femme host Tiffany—part toxic bloom, part human—who travels through time to interview scientists, poets, and caretakers about reimagining relationships between human and non-human life. Dakota shares how humor, multiplicity, and collaboration shape the series, blending found footage, analog techniques, and diverse animation styles into speculative, eco-futurist narratives. We also dive into her sculptural practice, the challenges of large-scale installation, the translation of Life Touching Life into multiple languages, and her upcoming public art commission for Flushing Meadows Park. Plus, we hear about the zine that brings the series off-screen and into readers’ hands.

Dakota Gearhart is a New York-based visual artist born in Arizona, raised in Florida, and educated in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and presented at the New Museum, Bronx Museum, Queens Museum, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Tacoma Art Museum, Oregon Contemporary Art Center, Northwest Film Forum, and International House of Japan, among others.

https://www.dakotagearhart.com/
https://newinc.metalabel.com/life-touching-life
https://www.instagram.com/_dakotagearhart/
https://muca.unam.mx/pulsar.html
https://www.lydianstater.co/projected-ecologies
https://www.elisagutierrezeriksen.com/

In this episode, we talk with Mexican filmmaker and animator Andrea Gudiño about her video Anima Natura, featured as part of Projected Ecologies in the exhibition Pulsar at MUCA Campus in Mexico City. We discuss embodied animism, learning from winter, what it means to animate with humility, and how writing, darkness, and disappearing landscapes shape her process. Andrea shares how her time in Estonia transformed her practice, why she considers Anima Natura both a confession and a beginning, and how she hopes to grow the project through workshops and co-creation around the world.

Andrea Gudiño is an Independent mexican director, animator and photographer. Her work is based on the experimentation of mixed animation techniques and documentary. She was part of the 14° Berlinale Talents Guadalajara and recently finished a Master degree in Animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts supported by the Scholarship FONCA-CONAHCYT : Creators of the future.

https://www.instagram.com/andreaaagu/
https://www.instagram.com/anima__natura/
https://muca.unam.mx/pulsar.html
https://www.lydianstater.co/projected-ecologies
https://www.elisagutierrezeriksen.com/