Corin Ileto, a Filipina-Australian electronic music producer, performer, and composer, works in experimental electronic music, sound art, and sound design. Her compositions blend traditional forms with hyper-digital sounds to create new imaginary realms. Ileto project Resonance is a long-form electroacoustic composition and performance that samples the kulintang, a Filipino precolonial gong chime instrument, combining synthesis →
Designer and artist Hussein Chalayan has always challenged and redefined the interplay between fashion and art in his work. Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, Chalayan gained early attention when Browns, a notable British boutique, purchased his entire graduation collection in 1993. The following year he founded his own label, subsequently earning the title British Designer of →
Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist, and composer working between contemporary experimental new music, free improvisation, and visual art. She is currently a Wigmore Hall Associate Artist, an Artist Associate with Ensemble Klang, a Fellow of Needcompany, Belgium, and was recently a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow (2022). In February 2022, Mitchener was awarded →
French artist Diane Cescutti explores the speculative idea of technology transfer as reparatory justice. The project imagines five supercomputers—absent from Africa despite the continent’s role in providing raw materials—offering their processing power to an unnamed African nation. These machines create “twin” supercomputers on the continent, yielding prophetic results interpreted by avatars, the titular Gods of →
Lulu Obermayer’s work spans opera, theater, performance art, dramaturgy, and choreography. Her practice intertwines historical facts and theatrical anecdotes, placing both real and fictional female voices at the forefront to examine questions of agency and representation on stage. Engaging deeply with the European cultural canon, Obermayer uncovers latent potential within female characters, reimagines established narratives, →
Ruth Patir is a new-media artist and filmmaker who fuses documentary storytelling with advanced computer-generated images. Her work, which is often grounded in her biography, gradually opens up to address larger societal issues, such as the politics of gender, technology, and hidden mechanisms of power. Patir’s Sleepers (2017), a twenty-minute film that coincided with the 2016 →
Polish choreographer and performer Wojciech Rybicki reclaims an unrealized ballet to explore the choreo-political potential of the practice of stage marking. Rybicki uses marking to examine speculative gestures and alternative temporalities, reflecting on the unfulfilled promises of post-communism. The work centers on a planned adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters for the Wrocław Opera in 1989–90, →
Artist James Richards’s practice encompasses expanded film, video, and installation. His provocative and visually seductive moving-image works collage together a wide range of source material, ranging from intimate home movies, archival footage, and television signals to rich musical soundtracks. Richards explores the intersection of technology, identity, and human experience to examine themes of obsession and →
María Gabriela Rubio Hernández is a Colombian composer, playwright, and performer. Her project The Larva merges electroacoustic music, sound poetry, and tactile materials such as mud, dirt, and hair, reflecting on how the earth decomposes, consumes, and silences the body. The work examines themes of violence and disappearance, engaging physically and sonically with these elements →
Ata Ebtekar, better known as Sote, is an Iranian-American electronic music composer and sound artist. His wide-ranging love of rich sounds and textures is embodied in the diverse paths he takes, such as hardcore club sounds, collaborations that straddle (traditional) acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and solo experimental electronics. This makes Ebtekar equally at home in →
