Dr. Diana Chester is an artist and sound studies scholar whose work produces critically influential studies, methods, and outputs that use sound to traverse disciplinary boundaries and explore sonic capacities core to the human condition. Current Projects include, ‘Listening to Earth,’ a collaborative research project exploring the development of listening instruments to record memories stored inside Earth, and ‘Sounding the Ice,’ a partnership with the Australia Antarctic Division that uses data sonification to express changes to sea-ice in Antarctica. Recent exhibitions include, “Celestial Stories” Smithsonian, National Mall, USA (2023), “Light Echoes” Sydney Observatory, Australia (2023), “ZAAG” Funkhaus, Mongolia (2023), “Sub_Merge” Atlantic Center for the Arts, USA (2023), “Sonifying COVID” Gallery 25, Perth, Australia (2022),” Living Landscapes Living Memories” Smithsonian, USA (2022). Chester is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Sydney, editor for the Pacific Region of IASA Journal, associate editor for sound and acoustics of computational Humanities Research Journal, vice president of the
World Listening Project, and Secretary of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology.