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Processing Like eating an imaginary apple, our hybrid human like bodies are formed to constantly digesting information, permanently inputing and outputting knowledge. We no longer have one mouth to eat, but thousand virtual nurturing holes, feeding us with raw particles of data. Can the unprocessed become an opportunity for new forms of life? A group of digital artists and musicians are gathered to present their observations on the digital body as a mean to cope with unprocessed memories. Collaborating with 'Panacea' exhibition project, the event will elaborate those issues through their audiovisual works and live music/dance performances. 6:30pm Swell (Version) by Hali Santamas Fixed Media Swell is an attempt to capture and evoke a specific place and time. It is the abstract expression of memory and atmosphere in processed, recorded light and sound. It is an expression of catharsis and intense emotion. Thermospheric Station (Aided) by Jung In Jung, Dane Lukic, and Ismene King Interactive Sound and Dance Collaboration In Thermospheric Station, the sound composition will be improvised by both the limited and free physical movement of two dancers. One’s traumatic experience might be cured by passing onto the other one. Intermission 7:15pm #untitled objects by Elías Merino Computer-generated sound sculptures subject to time elasticity Trauma by Sandra Ka Live Sound Performance The performance explores the sonic intricacies of the cultural and political memory of a specific geographical site - post-USSR environment - its struggle to combat constitutional authoritarianism, political struggle towards democracy, dealing with economic and social trauma, and its amaurotic shift towards accelerated wilderness of capitalism. th at ti me wh en by Phil Maguire raspberry pi, pd, mixer, fixed video an introspective examination of identity, memory, and place. frequent uprooting draws blood, creating a small wound. increasing in number all the time. quiet noise and quiet image perform an inquiry into this confused sense of self. self-indulgent? perhaps. ‘muttering that time altogether on the stone in the sun or that time together on the towpath or that time together in the sand that time that time making it up from there as best you could’ Samuel Beckett - That Time
Biographies Dane Lukic Dane Lukic is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and a dancer/perform- er originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina and currently based in London. Dane combines his academic teaching and research with analysis in dance and improvised performance. He has performed with a number of UK and international dance companies and choreographers including RuthMills- Dance, Dance House, Tanztheater, Secret Garden Party and Creative Scot- land. Dane is trained in contemporary dance with particular focus on con- tact improvisation. He is particularly interested in boundary space between different fields - between disciplines, between cultures, between styles of dance, between art forms and between dance and nondance space. Elías Merino www.eliasmerino.com Elías Merino (Madrid 1985) is a Spanish sonic artist and composer based in the UK. He develops his work around computer-generated sound objects. Merino is interested in different approaches related with sound composition and digital arts such as poetic and philosophical relationship between Subject-Object and the Otherness in computer based music, time shaping, or algorithmic sound sculptures/architectures in multifocal spaces and tridimensional virtual environments. Elías presents his work in installations and sonic works, which are exhibited, performed and broadcasted internationally. He obtained a Masters Degree in Sonic Arts with Distinction and currently he is a PhD researcher in Computer Music at at University of Huddersfield. Hali Santamas hali.io Hali is a West Yorkshire based artist and sometimes a very amateur graphic designer. He currently creates immersive installation art based on memory and atmosphere using layered sound and still image inspired by artists such as Mount Eerie, Sarah Sweeney, Swans, Idris Khan and Tim Hecker. Although he can’t draw, he’s alright with a camera and can play a couple of instruments (sort of). Sometimes he works with video too. Ismene King ismeneking.wix.com/artistportfolio Ismene King is a visual artist from Greece, currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Through her practice, she explores the human/non-human/imaginary body and the relationship to its surroundings. Focus is placed on the collection of materials/objects and the making process itself, which often becomes almost performative and ritualistic. She has showcased work in Greece, Cyprus and the UK, in various group shows and two personal exhibitions, as well as in New Delhi, during a recent residency. Two of her earlier works currently belong to a permanent collection in Athens. Ismene’s relation to dance began early in life and has recently focused on contemporary and butoh dance. Jung In Jung www.junginjung.com Jung In Jung is an audiovisual artist who has been collaborating with contemporary dancers, and considers how to present audiovisual composition with interactivity and physical movement. Her installations, dance collaborations and commissioned works have been shown at various places in the UK and other countries, including Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, Istanbul Design Biennale, xCoAx, MIVSC São Carlos Videodance Festival, and Bilbao La Escucha Errante Festival. Jung In is from Busan in South Korea and currently based in Manchester in the UK to pursue her PhD in Music Technology at University of Huddersfield.
Phil Maguire philmaguire.com Phil is a sound artist, musician, and photographer. He makes music that’s fascinated with minute grains and details of sound, focussing on synaesthetic responses and freeassociation, using field recordings, drones, noise, and found sounds. His work often combines these sounds with abstract photographs, approached with the same attention to minute details, to create minimal and narrative-resistant sonic and audiovisual works. Phil has developed this practice through his studies at Brunel University (BMus) and University of Huddersfield (MA Research) with Jennifer Walshe, Harald Muenz, Philip Thomas, Bob Gilmore, and in freelance projects. Phil’s work extends to other multimedia/discipline projects. He is composer for Sort of Theatre, and has contributed sound for pieces that utilise dance, puppetry, spoken word, and film. He writes music for instruments; he has composed works for violist Garth Knox and guitarist Rich Perks, and devises text scores for various combinations of instruments. Phil is also a performer, working with objects and samples in Galvanize Ensemble. He also improvises with voice and objects, in both free and text score-led contexts. Sandra Ka sandra.unmute.eu Sandra Ka is a sound, installation artist, and curator working across the disciplines of sound and visual arts. Sandra Ka has produced works ranging from acousmatic compositions, radio dramas, audiovisual installations to works for non-musical objects. Currently, Sandra is undertaking a PhD by practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Using her sound art practice, she is creating an in-depth research into the embodiment of sound in contemporary art gallery spaces, questioning how aurality, in its ubiquitousness, affects our aesthetic experience of art. !