Constanza Piña CL/DE
Constanza Piña (Curicó, 1984) Sound artist, researcher and independent educator. Her work is based on electronic experimentation, open source technologies, DIY philosophy and techno feminist social practices. She explores noise as a sonic, political, cultural and spiritual phenomenon. She reflects on the role of machines in our culture and the human/non-human-technological units, questioning the academy, capitalism and heteropatriarchy as opposition to open knowledge, autonomy and enhancement of technical manual work.
Interested in recycling, hardware hacking, soft-circuits, DIY antennas, handicrafts synths, ancestral technologies, and electronic wizardry, Constanza is active in the underground music scene since 2010 under the pseudonym Corazón de Robota (She-Robot Heart) sound project in which using only DIY synthesizers built by herself, she explores the field of audible and inaudible frequencies, psycho-physical perceptions of sound and the rhythmic dimensions of noise.
Her work has been part of international festivals and spaces throughout Latin America, Europe, US, Canada and Asia.
corazonderobota.wordpress.com
Samiir Saunders UK
Samiir Saunders is a multimedia poet from Birmingham working in spoken word, alternative hip-hop, and performance art.
Samiir’s work aims to arm individuals and communities with the tools to be curious, compassionate, and vulnerable in their everyday lives. Samiir often explores themes such as grind culture, isolation, shame, (mis)communication, intimacy, and the Internet.
Samiir’s work has featured at Ikon Gallery, Jerwood Space, La Gaîté Lyrique, Channel 4 Random Acts, BBC Words First, New Art Exchange, Vivid Projects, Wales International Film Festival, Tramlines Festival, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Supernormal Festival, No Bounds Festival, Corridor of Light, and Outfest.
samiirsaunders.com
!MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK DE/CH
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not mediengruppe bitnik) live and work
in Berlin. They are contemporary artists who work on and with the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to affect physical
spaces, often intentionally employing loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms. The works of !Mediengruppe Bitnik formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik are the artists Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo.
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Jonah Ross-Marrs US/FR
Jonah is a Paris-based designer and tinkerer who makes prepared computer instruments. He has given his workshop bricolages numériques at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, l'ENSCI-Les Ateliers, the Universität der Künste Berlin, and other design and art schools in France and Germany.
marrs.io
Geert Lovink NL
Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022). He studied political science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). His centre organizes conferences, publications and research networks such as Video Vortex (online video), The Future of Art Criticism and MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts). Recent projects deal with digital publishing experiments, critical meme research, participatory hybrid events and precarity in the arts.
From 2007-2018 He was media theory professor at the European Graduate School. In December 2021 he was appointed Professor of Art and Network Cultures at the UvA Art History Department. The Chair (one day a week) is supported by the HvA.
Institute of Network Cultures
Olivia Jack US
Olivia Jack is a programmer and artist who works frequently with open-source software, cartography, live coding, and experimental interfaces. Her research interests include algorithmic representations of uncertainty and chaos, peer2peer networking, and live coding as a way to enter into a continuous dialogue or feedback loop between herself and her computer. She is the developer of Hydra, a platform for live-coding visuals inspired by analog video synthesis. In Bogotá, she works with the performance laboratory ATI-erra, creating interactive visuals for dance and theater. Originally from San Francisco, she currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.
Hydra is an ongoing research project and software platform that turns each connected browser window into a node of a modular and distributed video synthesizer. Built on top of WebRTC (peer-to-peer web streaming), the project explores possibilities for collaboration and performance on the web, in which each connected browser/device outputs a video signal or stream and receives and modifies streams from other browsers/devices. During the residency, Olivia will use Hydra to develop a series of web-based explorations of specific aspects of live visuals on the internet, including: video feedback, non-linear dynamics, live coding and telepresence.
ojack.xyz
Dasha Ilina RU/FR
Dasha Ilina is a Russian artist based in Paris, France. Through the employment of low tech and DIY approaches her work highlights the nebulous relationship between our desire to incorporate modern technologies into our daily lives and proposed social imperatives for care of oneself and others. Her practice engages the public in order to facilitate a space for the development of critical thought regarding our modern day relationships, privacy in the digital age, and the reflexive contemporary desire to turn to technology for answers.
She is the founder of the Center for Technological Pain, a project that proposes DIY solutions to health problems caused by digital technologies for which she has received an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica.
dashailina.com
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Roos Groothuizen NL
Roos Groothuizen is an independent media artist and designer who dances on the borders of interaction, theater, intervention, web, film, games and animation.
Who is in control over what I perceive? Fascinated with the unfair distribution of information and how online algorithms systematically discriminate us, her reflects on in-depth research and recent developments, often with interactive or game-like elements. Fun with a serious undertone.
Also a proud member of Telemagic: an open media-lab trying to make sense of the mysteries that revolve around digital technology.
roos.gr
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo US/DE
Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo is an artist, programmer, and erstwhile data designer. Her work focuses on using the digital in a manner that can transcend its squalid and militaristic roots and reach out towards the sublime. She has created data-obscured art sites, new computer languages, and hybrid nostalgia machines.
Her current focus is livecoded performances and abstract digital installations. For both, she makes use of image processing tools new and old, from the Jones frame buffer to a time-based SVG framework she developed herself.
Sarah is an alumna of the School for Poetic Computation, Recurse Center, Brown University, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In addition to a solo exhibition as part of Wallplay's On Canal series, she has taken part in group shows at Sonar+D, Westbeth, Day for Night, Flux Factory, and Denver Supernova.
Born in Southern California, Sarah lives and works in New York and Berlin.
art.sarahghp.com
Benjamin Gaulon FR
Benjamin Gaulon is an artist, researcher, educator and cultural producer. Since 2002 he has released work under the name "recyclism".
His research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies; planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society; ownership and privacy; through the exploration of détournement, hacking and recycling. His projects can be softwares, installations, pieces of hardware, web based projects, interactive works, street art interventions and are, when applicable, open source.
He is currently director of NØ SCHOOL, a non profit organisation whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research and practices that address the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies, in France and beyond. Co-organiser of NØ SCHOOL NEVERS. And he is the CEO of IoDT the Internet of Dead Things Institute.
He has presented his work internationally at exhibitions, festivals and conferences in alternative, institutional or academic contexts for schools, museums, galleries or in public space. Including NeMe, National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Société, Mapping Festival, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Seconde Nature, Cityleaks Festival, Media Lab Prado, Gamerz Festival, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, ZKM, Piksel Festival, UMOCA, HeK Basel, Espace Gantner, Transmediale, RIXC, Furtherfield, Lichter Filmfest, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gaite Lyrique, Le jeu de Paume Paris, Science Gallery, ...
recyclism.com
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DISNOVATION.ORG FR
DISNOVATION.ORG is a research collective set up in paris in 2012, whose core members include Maria Roszkowska (pl/fr), Nicolas Maigret (fr), Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de), and Jerome Saint-Clair (fr). They work at the interface between contemporary art, research and hacking, and compose tailor-made teams for each investigation together with academics, activists, engineers, and designers. More specifically their recent artistic provocations seek to empower post growth imaginaries and practices while challenging dominant techno-solutionist ideologies. Their research includes artworks, publications & curation.
THEIR WORK HAS BEEN PRESENTED INTERNATIONALLY INCLUDING:
Centre Pompidou (Paris), Transmediale (Berlin), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), FILE (Sao Paulo), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Strelka Institute (Moscow), ISEA (Hong Kong), Elektra (Montreal), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), and the Chaos Computer Congress (Hamburg)… Their work has been featured in: Forbes, Vice, Wired, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte TV, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural.it, Digicult, Gizmodo, Seattle Weekly, torrentfreak.com, and Filmmaker Magazine among others.
disnovation.org
Teresa Dillon IE/UK/DE
Teresa Dillon is an artist and researcher whose work symbolically and critically examines the techno-civic systems that affect and shape everyday urban life. Over the last 15 years, her research has contributed to policy thinking on open data, and she has written on the role of open source within art and education, repair, surveillance histories, and urban wildlife; sound, noise, and the electromagnetic spectrum, infrastructural literacy, and the urban commons.
Since 2013 she has been hosting urbanknights.org, a program of talks and workshops that provoke and promote practical approaches to urban governance, city living, and civic wellbeing. She is currently Professor of City Futures at the School of Art and Design, UWE Bristol.
polarproduce.org
Ted Davis US/CH
Ted Davis is an educator / designer / media artist originally from the United States and based in Basel, Switzerland, where he teaches interaction design and coordinates the UIC/HGK International Master of Design program within the Institute for Digital Communication Environments HGK FHNW.
His work and teachings explore the volatility of digital media through glitch and reactivating older ‘new media’ through newer programming means. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE, p5.glitch) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, collaboratively live code visuals with p5.js, and glitch any media in real-time within the web browser. In 2019, he was a p5.js Contributing Conference participant, joining a working group focused on Music and Code in Performance. In 2021 he received the Basel Media Art Prize (Basler Medienkunstpreis) for p5.glitch and was a Processing Foundation Teaching Fellow. With international exhibits, lectures and workshops, he empowers students to take hold of the computer’s ability to design possibilities beyond that of the hand or mouse.
teddavis.org
Terrains Communs FR
Philippine Mangeart is a space designer and seamstress. Her sensitivity to colors led her to train with Michel Garcia, expert chemist of plant pigments. She has since explored the many possibilities of natural dyes: dye, ink, pigments and creating textile objects with her brand Aube.
Max Félix is a designer and artistic director based in Nevers, Burgundy. A graduate in applied arts and design, he has worked for more than ten years on projects related to ecology and is specialized in artistic direction, graphic design and photography.
Together they co-founded, in 2022, Terrains Communs, an nonprofit at the crossroads of ecology, arts and applied arts. The non-profit manages a 1.3 hectare wasteland near the city center of Nevers as an educational and creative ecosystem which hosts workshops, workshops, training, shows around the arts, applied arts and ecology.
terrainscommuns.org
Nica Ross US
Nica Ross is an artist, educator and cultural producer located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA. Through participatory video installations and games their work reveals and challenges norms and social constructions that are reinforced by technology, performance and play.
Nica holds a B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University and an M.F.A. in Advanced Photographic Study from The International Center of Photography, Bard College program. Nica has worked in a wide array of video, theater and event production on both commercial and artistic projects. They have worked with 3-Legged Dog Media & Theater Group, The Joshua Light Show along with many individual artists. Presently they are Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Associate Professor of Video and Media Design in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.
studioforcreativeinquiry.org
