Åsa Stjer­na is a Swedish instal­la­tion artist who through sound and lis­ten­ing explores places as com­plex ecolo­gies. Sev­er­al of her projects involve sci­en­tif­ic col­lab­o­ra­tion where she explores how col­lab­o­ra­tion between sci­ence and art can cre­ate new artis­tic for­mats for lis­ten­ing that deep­en our rela­tion­ship to the world around us. In this way, she tries to cre­ate a con­nec­tion between the past and the present, the local and the glob­al, and the human and the more-than-human. This fall she is a vis­it­ing researcher at Sound Stud­ies UdK. Her artis­tic research project, Son­ic Visions of the Arc­tic, explores the poten­tial of sound to inves­ti­gate the Arc­tic as a pub­lic space of glob­al interest.