About the Artists

Linda O’Keeffe

Linda O’Keeffe is an artist, researcher, educator, and acoustic ecologist whose work explores listening as a method for understanding relationships between people, place, memory, and environmental change. Working across sound art, participatory practice, installation, radio, and interdisciplinary research, she develops projects that investigate embodied forms of ecological knowledge and the role of listening in responding to environmental transformation. Her work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, public programmes, radio broadcasts, and collaborative research initiatives. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, New York.

Leena Lee

Leena Lee (Lena Ortega Atristain) is an artist and researcher whose work explores corporeal attunement to the environment through affective listening. Working across sound art, fieldwork, installation, and radio, she develops projects that investigate relationships between place, environment, and the entities that inhabit them, bridging art, theoretical research, and the life sciences. Her work has been presented internationally through festivals, exhibitions, broadcasts, and collaborative research initiatives, and recognized as Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp and reviewed in The Wire and A Closer Listen. She is a founding member of Arte+Ciencia at UNAM, where she is currently pursuing postdoctoral research in philosophy of nature on gardening as an ecology of care.