Papers from the 4th and 5th Balance-Unbalance International Conference, Part 2

The Balance-Unbalance (BunB) project aims to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society with the intent of engendering a deeper awareness and creating lasting intellectual working partnerships in solving our global environmental crisis.

The 4th Balance-Unbalance International Conference took place 21–29 March 2015 and was hosted by Arizona State University, in the United States, and the 5th Balance-Unbalance International Conference took place 9–11 May 2016 and was hosted by the University of Caldas in Manizales, Colombia. We are pleased to present this special section featuring selected papers from the 2015 and 2016 Balance-Unbalance Conference.

In this issue:
Jennifer C. Post: Climate Change and Cultural Heritage in Western Mongolia	285
Leslie Sharpe: Beak Disorder: A Sound and Sculpture Installation	287
Walmeri Ribeiro and Daniel Quaranta: Sensitive Territories: Performatives Researchers in Arts and Nature	289
Christin Bolewski: Man, Nature and Technology—Eastern Philosophy, Global Issues and Western Digital Visualization Practice	291
Nina Czegledy: Alternative Strategies in Contemporary Art Practice	292
Reynaldo Thompson and Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay: Microbial Nanoids: Electronic Arts in the Face of Mexico's Megadiversity Crisis	294
Shannon McMullen, Fabian Winkler and Steven Zuiker: Gardens, Machines and Education	296
Leah Barclay, Toby Gifford and Simon Linke: River Listening: Acoustic Ecology and Aquatic Bioacoustics in Global River Systems	298
Joseph Finkel: Building Environmentally Attuned Communities: The Politics of Alvin Curran's Maritime Rites	300
Meredith Hoy: Modern Science, Nature and the Phenomenology of Data Collection	302
Marcello Messina and Leonardo Vieira Feichas: Comu arvulu scippatu: A Cycle of Pieces for Solo Violin	304
Margot McMahon: Transforming Nature	306
SoundCamp: The Live Audio Archive	308
Maria Cristina Villanova Biasuz: Atmo-Sphere: Art and Conscious Environmental Visualization	310