Laboratory Artists 2024
Azucena Sanchez is a media artist whose work explores the intersection of life, science, and technology. Born in 1989 in Mexico City, she earned a BA in Graphic Design from La Salle University. In 2015, she moved to Germany to pursue a master’s degree in Medienkunst at Bauhaus Universität. Her works include bio media, tech-sculpture, multimedia, and site-specific installations that have been featured in international group exhibitions at Kulturhaus Neuperlach in München, Transmediale, Schillerpalais, and TopLab in Berlin, as well as STWST as part of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and MUCA in Mexico City.
Azucena works in a hybrid studio space that includes a ‘kitchen lab’ setup, where she collaborates with myriad organisms and living entities. She enjoys working both in the open field and within the controlled environment of a lab or artist studio, always leaving room for experimentation. Azucena sees her role as an artist as a mediator between nature and humanity, creating new forms of communication, coexistence and mutual understanding. Her work is a collaborative effort involving living and non-living organisms to explore their potential as interconnected entities and create new dialogues of resilience in the face of social and ecological crises.
Website: https://azucena-sanchez.art/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_azusnz/
Portfolio as PDF: http://azucena-sanchez.art/AzucenaSanchez-Portfolio.pdf
CV as PDF: https://azucena-sanchez.art/AzucenaSanchez_CV.pdf
Thomas Mayer is a UK-born multimedia artist and performer based in Berlin. Trained in physical theatre at Arthaus.Berlin, he combines multidisciplinary art practices with embodied expression to create live art and visual art which humorously explores themes of identity, transformation and the mundane. He is currently an active member of the artistic association Make-up e.V.
https://linktr.ee/thomas.mayer
Antuum is a sound artist, musical performer, cellist, and improviser based at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) in Graz, Austria. He creates sound installations, musical performances, and kinetic, site-specific sound sculptures. His work explores music within posthuman and transhuman contexts, investigating how technology, biology, and art converge to shape new auditory experiences.
°¯`••𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘟𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧–𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘯, 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘢𝘯–𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 ‘𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩’.•♬•♫•.
ins: songxin.xin
Fabricio Lamoncha is an artist and researcher from Spain, currently based in Austria. PhD in Artistic Research from the University of Art and Design Linz and Senior Artist at the Interface Cultures Master program. He is member of the Art|Sci Center at UCLA and co-founder of the Leonardo Laser Talks Linz. His research explores the entanglements of media ecology and bioethics. His practice has been exhibited internationally and awarded Art and Artificial Life International Award Vida14.
Isadora Chadeaux (Hayden Potter) is an artist, event curator and writer from Brisbane, Australia working in noise & performative practice. Their work engages improvisational and collaborative approaches to performance that interrogate perceptions of failure. Within the shifting dynamics of a performance space they look to emphasize the tangible characteristics of emotional intensities hidden within layers of sonic and social dissonance. They’ve produced sound works for exhibitions in Brisbane and are currently based in Europe writing for Easterndaze.net, a journal of underground music in Central and Eastern Europe.
oolongradio is a berlin based web radio station run by sunkyu and hjk, where we play our daily radio practices. Since 2020, we have been transmitting audio data from our own archive through a self-produced open-source web radio. We engage in listening, recording, broadcasting, live-streaming, and sometimes organizing events.
website: oolongradio.com
instagram: @oolongradio
Andrejs Poikāns is an artist and researcher based between Riga, Latvia and Berlin, Germany. His works have taken the form of multichannel acousmatic composition, sound installation and performative lectures. He has collaborated in developing music for theatre and gallery based performances. The latter often involves arithmetic processes and the writing of simple computer programs for scheduling events in long time durations and making calendar entries. As a researcher he is fascinated by the topics of psychoanalysis of listening and philosophy of language.
He is a graduate of New Media Arts BA programme in Liepaja University (2017-2020) and holds an MA in Sonology from The Royal Conservatory The Hague (2020-2023).
He regularly performs computer music under his own name or under the alias ‘absence administration’. Lately exploring code based improvisation on a simple yet chaotic additive synthesis program he has developed in SuperCollider.
https://on.soundcloud.com/ofjdZA4UaGgVZxM36
Michał Chrul is an interdisciplinary conceptual sound prankster based in Berlin. His body of work spans music production, video art scoring, sound design, live sound for performances and more. Michał is a verified user. He delves into the themes of loss, lost-time-nostalgia and trance-infused pathos. At outside_in he works on a video piece effectively undermining the intrinsics of confession. Big if true. He will also run a workshop going over spatial audio technologies as a mediatory apparatus.
Michal Klodner. I am moving from the field of audiovisual live performances and experimental film to forest gardening, building livinglab and back. With a background in information science and coding, I was among the founders and currently a curator of node9.org digital community server and online gallery. My practice involves writing on online activism, digital curation or postmediality, as part of creating networks based on trust in those fields. In the recent projects on the role of artistic research in sustainability I go into computational aspects of media art in relation to ecosystems and more than human natureculture communities, trying to develop livinglab as an interdisciplinary method of nondestructive living-research in nature and wilderness.
Website: https://lab.node9.org