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Pe Lang

Pe Lang’s poetic and elegant hand built sculptures combine mechanized systems with new materials to mandate and manifest a different approach to kinetic movement. Lang realizes performances and creates installations by ingeniously assembling magnetic, electrical and mechanical devices and even inventing new devices and prototypes. The resulting works are both visually appealing, because of their elegant and minimal kinetic qualities, but also fascinating for their acoustic features. If chance plays an important role in his works, the artist playfully manages to balance between order and chaos by controlling the forces involved in his compositions: the precision of the mechanical devices and the confusion resulted from the collision of the various elements.

More info @ http://pelang.ch

Les Liens Invisibles

Les Liens Invisibles is an imaginary italy-based artists duo comprised of Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini. Their work is an eclectic recombination of pop net culture, reverse engineering techniques, social media subvertising, and any other kind of media reappropriation.

Since 2007 Les Liens Invisibles have been infiltrating the global communication networks in order to join and expand the invisible connections between art and real life.

Most of their artworks and interventions – which include a virtual suicide web service, the subvertising of many popular social networking platform and a paradoxical tool to reclaim the truth through the fake – reached global media visibility and have been shown internationally.

More info @ http://www.lesliensinvisibles.org/

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Electronic artist, develops interactive installations that are at the intersection of architecture and performance art. His main interest is in creating platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival and animatronics, his light and shadow works are “antimonuments for alien agency”.

His work has been commissioned for events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the UN World Summit of Cities in Lyon (2003), the opening of the YCAM Center in Japan (2003), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the memorial for the Tlatelolco Student Massacre in Mexico City (2008), the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2009) and the Winter Olympics in Vacouver (2010).

His kinetic sculptures, responsive environments, video installations and photographs have been shown in museums in four dozen countries. In 2007 he was the first artist to officially represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition at Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel. He has also shown at Art Biennials in Sydney, Liverpool, Shanghai, Istanbul, Seville, Seoul, Havana and New Orleans. His work is in private and public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Jumex collection in Mexico, the Museum of 21st Century Art in Kanazawa, the Daros Foundation in Zürich and TATE in London…

More info @ http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/

Fabrizio Nocci

Born in Abbadia San Salvatore (Siena) on 13/12/1974. After graduating in Composition at the “Conservatorio Santa Cecilia” in Rome, continuing his musical experiences living in Dresden, New York and Berlin (where he currently resides). His activities include instrumental music for orchestra and ensemble, electronic music and experimental electronic music. Actively collaborates with filmmakers and video artists, producing music for films and experimental videos. He writes music for theater and dance. Since 2007 collaborates with a lot of video artisti like Lillevan (founder of the Rechenzentrum, Berlin), Chika (New York), Philipp Geist (Berlin), Lorenzo Oggiano (Italy), Daniele Spanò (Italy) and others…

More info @ http://www.myspace.com/ncco1



Daniel Menche

Daniel Menche has established himself as a musician with a sense of focus and determination uncharacteristic in a genre known for its randomness and chaotic structure. Rather than creating “noise,” he strives for order and cohesiveness. His presentation of sonic structures is similar to the way a writer depicts a story, an allegory seems to arise, which uses confusion as a symbol for the imaginative process of total sound purity; aural intensity is not a representation of confusion or the chaotic, but a concerted effort to provoke and stimulate the listeners imagination by generating intensely powerful sounds and music.

Daniel Menche’s work originates from the idea that there is no restriction to the potential sound sources and especially sonic energy. Any sounds – all sounds are used and exploited to create the music. There are absolutely no barriers or biases in what can be used and have been used. Self made and recorded sound sources, percussion and instruments are the main emphasis in creating a living and emotional feeling to Daniel Menche’s form of contemporary music. […]

More info @ http://www.esophagus.com/htdb/menche/

Studio Roosegaarde

Studio Roosegaarde is a techno artistic laboratory based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which has made several internationally acclaimed{{Tate Modern}} interactive artworks such as 4D-Pixel, Dune and Flow 5.0.

Mostly Studio Roosegaarde is well known for its interactive installations which react to sound and motion. Besides its many international shows such as in Hong Kong and Tate Modern London, it functions as a laboratory with own ‘in-house’ productions such as an upcoming Liquid Space 6.0.

Launched by media artist Daan Roosegaarde the lab is currently working on larger scale interactive installations in architecture and public space. Its latest venture is the Sustainable Dance Floor.

More info @ http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/

Martin Bédard

Martin Bédard studied music at Université Laval, and at the Conservatoire de musique both in Québec City and in Montréal.

As an electroacoustic composer, Martin explores the realms of instrumental and mixed composition. He regularly works on sound design projects, composing music for stage productions and installations / performances. His aesthetic has been largely influenced by the popular music culture broadly speaking. For Martin, working as a composer strangely combines the aspects of research and discovery with a confusion of disconcerting sensations. His ultimate artistic concern though remains the sound event as a means of expression through intelligent sound architecture.

Martin earned his master’s degree in electroacoustic composition under the direction of composer Yves Daoust and André Fecteau at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, graduating with honours. His keen interest in film language and sound culture should provide him ample new creative avenues to explore for future projects. [...]

More info @ http://www.pointdecoute.ca/

Michael Kontopoulos

Michael Kontopoulos is an artist and designer, interested in constructing mechanical systems and tools for exploring the poetics of everyday human behavior. Through invention, experimentation and iteration, his systems evoke metaphors about social relationships and the human condition, reflecting on habits both conscious and unconscious. Born in Philadelphia, Michael has lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles and has exhibited his work at various galleries, festivals and alternative spaces around the US, Asia and Europe.

More info @ http://www.mkontopoulos.com/

electronic life forms

electronic life forms is a media art and research project of Pascal Glissmann and Martina Höfflin. It investigates the fascination for artificial life and the principles of interaction theoretically and artistically. The design with electronic components and handcrafts is as important as the fusion of art and technology and the interaction with nature and humans.

“The idea of electronic life form started with two workshops, we organized 2003 and 2004 at the Academy of media art in Cologne. Together with Ralf Schreiber and strudel.org (Sebastian Noth, Christian Faubel) we built analog robots with simple moving and interaction principles. Ralf Schreiber introduced us to the BEAM community and inspired us a lot by his living particles work, which we adore. Fascinated by electronic creatures which seemed to be alive and the fantastic look of electronic components, we started soldering small creatures living from and reacting to sunlight. To create the feeling, that these little beings are living around us in the existing nature, we put them into old fashioned Weck glasses in which we used to collect real animals in our childhood. Besides we exposed them into nature and documented them in their natural environment.” [...]

More info @ http://www.electronic-life-forms.com/