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The Creepers
연도 미상해체하고 다시 조립한 프린터 세 대가 매달린 채 회전하며 문자와 색의 흔적을 계속 만들어낸다. 제작연도는 표본 원문에서 확인되지 않았다.
설치 · 기계 · 쓰기
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Portraying a series of characters who resist representation, Ruses and Refusals samples an array of images, language, and references from history, pop culture, mythology, cinema, and art history in an aesthetic of kaleidoscopic excess. The film gathers a motley crew of anti-heros: Buster Keaton, Julian of Norwich, the Greek figure of Thetis, the philosopher Diogenes, a blobfish, a fox and a beaver, a satyr, and a “very hungry lady”. Their techniques of resistance vary – some perform non-expression, while others withdraw, placing themselves in a future out of frame. Together they play with their own characterisation, loitering out of shot and refusing to stay still. With the kind support of the Bureau des arts plastiques of the French Institute and the French Ministry of Culture.
Video installation · Video installation
Heavy View
2020In her work Heavy View, Laura Yuile collects outdated and malfunctioning TVs and other electrical items, grouping them in constellations of overlapping pop-up windows similar to a computer desktop while pebble dashing their screens. This cheap architectural render is imbued with all the associations of suburbia, which the artist employs as both a 'white-noise' and an urban camouflage. Yuile’s intention is to make these salvaged objects disappear and to create an opportunity for them to exist as something else. Heavy View is a project that developed out of the artist´s consideration of technological and architectural obsolescence; the failed utopia of modernist social housing, and the rapid waste generated by unfashionable or unrepairable devices.
Installation · Installation
In the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, the stone-revering Minahasa were organised according to the gift economy of Mapalus, which was based on volunteerism, kinship with nature and mutual aid. According to native cosmology, the first person ever to exist was a woman who gave birth through a stone. With the presence of colonialists from the West and their interactions with the locals, the Minahasans evolved to a stone-based exchange system that was informed by a mixture of their ancient spiritual beliefs and the Christian-influenced capitalist ideas. The Epoch of Mapalucene explores the dynamics of Minahasa worldview through the perspective of digital culture, speculating on its potential for imagining an alternative society based on a reciprocity that brings together animate and inanimate realms. The work was commissioned by transmediale with the support of the Martin Roth Initiative.
Video installation · Video installation
Fenced within the silent cold walls features a recreation of the artist’s former home in Iraq, to which his family are unable to return. As the camera moves through the derelict house, digital images begin to escape from a forgotten TV and computer screens, and materialise into living forms. These forces surge out in utter destruction, invading the domestic realm. A voice introduces itself as Al-Sabah’s grandmother who describes the burning of sentimental objects in the home before fleeing, leaving everything behind but her photographs. Reflecting on this childhood memory as an adult, Al-Sabah weaves imagery pulled from cartoons with paintings of his family portraits, deconstructing the links between fantasy and reality, the hero and the everyday, and make-believe and fact. With the support of Culture Ireland.
Film / video · Film / video
Madre Drone
2019-2020Inspired by the spread of wildfires in Bolivia as well as social protests in Chile in 2019, Madre Drone questions technological state surveillance through a story of multi-species resistance. The installation merges myths, symbols, and rituals with ideas of extraction, cultural appropriation, and natural destruction due to industrialisation. Domínguez’s video and totemic sculptures take the fragments of a broken world and propose new configurations for living in a strange reality in which plants neutralise robotic energy, drones cry, and toucans have been blinded by fire. Beyond the destructive forces of colonialism and its legacy, Domínguez proposes a healing space where viewers might live, like plants, in the cracks of post-modernity.
Video installation · Video installation
Congress of Idling Persons features five interlocutors who play themselves and greater fictions amid broader transhistorical narratives. In the shadows of recent world-historical events, artist and writer Bassem Saad, DJ and translator Rayyan Abdel Khalek, musical artist Sandy Chamoun, writer Islam Khatib, and organiser Mekdes Yilma examine a cartography of protest, crisis, humanitarian and mutual aid, migrant labour, and Palestinian outsider status. Punctuated by the late Arab Spring and the Black Lives Matter revolts of 2020, as well as by the Beirut port explosion, the film weaves through transhistorical constants, from collective rage to mutualism, propelled by the speech and acts of its performers. With this work, Saad asks: If a group action is a riot and not a revolution, then who films it? If four is a riot, is it also a congress? The work was commissioned by transmediale with the support of the Martin Roth-Initiative.
Film / video · Film / video
Taking evolution and adaptation as her primary themes, Anne Duk Hee Jordan imagines visions of post-Anthropocene futures through strange lifeforms and mechanical breathing machines. Presented as a complex system, Atmospheres of Breathing explores fantastical ecological networks of animated immaterial beings, where even the most microscopic of elements are made visible. Her constructed organisms combine sculptural, biological, and technological elements, between the human and the nonhuman. Micro and macro video footage shows the cocoon of a monarch butterfly, a shame-faced crab, and an inflated sea cucumber as they become entwined in a ludic environment. The machines operate according to a 4-7-8 breathing pattern based on yogic pranayama – an ancient technique for meditative breathing.
Installation · Installation
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Creamatorium
2020Creamatorium combines sculpture, image, and text to explore the grave as a space for creative expression under colonial rule in Ireland, contrasting it with English approaches to garden design in the 17th and 18th centuries. Guided by the necropastoral and the subterranean - where death lives - ‘strange meetings’ happen between the artist, her friends, North Belfast horse mythology, the soil, the dead, and the internet.
Mixed media · Mixed media
Set in a city that has been overtaken by an unprecedented fog, I Can’t Remember a Time I Didn’t Need You is an immersive adventure game exploring the complex relations between cultural representations, surveillance, and the everyday experiences of Black Trans people. Infrastructures of bureaucracy and monitoring permit and restrict access to the game, forcing users to reconsider their own identity and sense of belonging. In this immersive adventure, Brathwaite-Shirley focuses on grieving, remembrance, and hope for the experiences of Black Trans people, creating an archive that centres and upholds their right to life. Thanks to Weise7 for technical collaboration. The work was co-comissioned by QUAD.
Installation · Installation
Memory Dispute
2017Investigating shifting economies within the use of toxins in past and contemporary Asia, Memory Dispute captures a remote rainforest in central Vietnam, an area heavily attacked by napalm during the Vietnamese American war. Ghostly images of an ecosystem now irrevocably altered become a metaphorical study when contrasted with captions meticulously documenting the process of a skin whitening treatment prevalent in Asia. An acid fluid is applied onto the body to separate two skin layers, allowing the first layer of skin to be entirely peeled off. Mapping the disparate and converging lines between napalm and that of an acid skin peel, Tieu traces how rapid economic growth, communication, and cultural exchange alter subjecthood in contemporary Vietnam.
Video installation · Video installation
Workation
2019Workation loops four self-portraits of the artist reclining while at work across four screens of increasing size: a smartphone, a laptop, and two LCD monitors. The screens rest on cushions and carpet, in a yellow space between office and beach. In the four videos Caesar holds a smartphone, where viewers can see the initial stock images Caesar retrieved from googling the contradictory term “workation”, showing “flexible” individuals subsumed by the productive forces of capitalism. Caesar is shown in a hammock, at the beach, in bed, and on an idyllic balcony, but rather than relaxing, she misuses these places of leisure as working sites, which also become “material” for her art. Workation presents an embodied critique of the demands for 24-hour availability, or “remote presence”, that modern technology enables - and instead meditates on collective exhaustion. With the support of the Flemish government and the Flanders Department of Culture, Youth and Media.
Video installation · Video installation
Relic 3 is part of Achiampong’s ongoing project – Relic Traveller: Phase 2 – a multi-disciplinary multi-site piece that builds on themes of lost testimony, fallen empire, and displacement by deconstructing the architectures of colonialism. The work considers the current socio-political climate, contrasting a rise of nationalism in the West and tensions around Brexit to the African Union’s passport programme, which aims to open borders across a unified Africa. The project imagines a future in which the West declines and the African Union becomes prosperous, harmonious, and responsible for shaping the planet’s future. Relic 3 picks up from Relic 2, detailing a migrant worker’s struggles as they try to live in a hostile, alien environment.
Video installation · Video installation
In Not Gone With The Wind, Eli Cortiñas explores the politics of images and their impact. Made from a collage of found sequences taken from Hollywood cinema, television series, advertising, Ted Talks, and YouTube videos, the film critiques the reinforcement of toxic stereotypes and misleading historical narratives. In this era of fake news, Covid-fuelled conspiracy theories, and global political uprisings, Cortiñas rightly asks “who owns the narrative”? and suggests that to save the future, one might have to reassess the past. With her meticulous selection of moving image sequences and quotes, Cortiñas refers to the current regime of ideas, and reveals how fear and mass media’s complicity reinforces hegemonic policies. Text written by Elise Lammer.
Video installation · Video installation
For the Record
2020Our archive is not the silent storage room of Truth or History or Reality or Anything Real, for that matter. The aesthetic and language of archive and refusal open realism’s grip on art. Refusal speaks as if its desires have already manifested themselves in the present. We discuss the radical imaginative as a means of orientation, for moving and positioning oneself elsewhere to create new centres, foci and spaces. For us who live the frequencies and fiction of empires and self-creation, the archive requires poesis and abstraction; for us archival refusal is an act of pressing our ears to the image peephole through to the somewhere score of the said and unsaid things of our everyday lives. Neighbouring London and Vancouver, we reinterpret each other’s practice and sense of place. For the Record is a diasporic archive which embraces this rich tone and texture of diasporic romance. The romance, for the record, is not a move away from the difficult complexity of living in diaspora; the diasporic romance that For the Record captures is the unseen, unvoiced, undoing tenderness of Black kinship. The project is part of the culture program related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2020 and is supported by the Government of Canada / Embassy of Canada to Germany.
Film / video · Film / video
Afrofuturism is communicated via the Bahamian people through Junkanoo, a form of carnival in the Bahamas. Originally celebrated by those who were enslaved and given just Christmas Day and Boxing Day off, Junkanoo can be viewed as a form of resistance. We follow the ‘Shell Saxon Superstars’, a group of 1,500 people, as they come together in spectacular fashion to enact a politically motivated theme, asserting national pride or depicting other countries. We visit the shacks where the costumes are made to observe the craftsmanship and dedication required to win the parade and obtain ‘bragging rights’. Along with 16mm film images, a multi-layered soundtrack brings together samples and analogue sounds that include static and radio samples to obscure a seemingly obtainable message. Too often Sun Ra’s “Space is the Place” is co-opted to merely refer to space travel- bypassing its assertion of the power of Black culture. Actual space agency sounds - sounds which usually describe comets or space travel equipment like the Mars Rover- are juxtaposed with interviews with the Saxons. In so doing the work roots an Afrofuturist aesthetic with the Bahamian people.
Film / video · Film / video
Te Moana Meridian
연도 미상Employing longitude and latitude to map the world has become the dominant technology of relating to the terrestrial sphere. Latitudinal measurements are taken from the poles as determined by Earth’s axis of rotation. Longitudinal measurements are taken from the Prime Meridian, a point not determined by physics, but by geopolitics. Te Moana Meridian revisits a proposal first put forward in 1884 to position the Prime Meridian away from any land-mass in order to diminish motives guided by national interest. The work takes the form of a planned United Nations General Assembly Resolution calling for the Prime Meridian to be relocated from Greenwich, England to its 180-degree antipodean coordinates deep in the open waters of Te Moana-nui-ā-Kiwa / the Pacific Ocean. Manifesting as an opera that is due to be performed at the UN General Assembly in 2022, transmediale presents the project in its opening stages through a printed manifesto and accompanying short-film. Te Moana Meridian is directed by Sam Tam Ham in collaboration with Holland Andrews, Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Cat Ruka, Vaimaila Urale, Clara Chon, and a 40-piece youth choir. The completed work is due to be presented at a later edition of transmediale.
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During the summer of 2020, pictures of a naked sunbather chasing a team of wild boars across a lakeside beach in Berlin spread rapidly online. With the sunbather’s laptop in its mouth, the hastily captured smartphone images helped reinforce the myth of the boar as a troublesome animal. A wild animal that refuses to stay in the wild. Exploring confrontation and the relations between human and non-human, Brès questions anthropocentric fictions of ‘Nature’ that make our existence within an interconnected ecology hard to recognise. Constructing a non-human world in which wild boars are the primary protagonists, this experimental fiction artwork uses quantitative ecology tools to help guide its script – including geospatial mapping systems and a team of algorithmically animated boars. Manipulating data points, Brès uses mapping as a tool to open up new prospects for alliances between human and non-human. Sitting somewhere between the real and virtual, the world she constructs helps us imagine alternate ways of seeing the world, confronting prevailing anthropocentric philosophies towards a speculation for a communism of the living. Manifesting as a mixed-media installation within the transmediale studio, notes for les sanglières takes the form of an artist exchange and performance piece. Traversing the borders between artistic production, research and exhibition, the work builds towards the production of Brès’ new film to be shown at a future edition of transmediale.
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Indications of Guilt, pt.1 examines the structures of American police interrogation and their relationship to fictional screen representations of law enforcement. The film asks what it means to be familiar with legal processes through television before experiencing them in real life. Craigie edits together interviews with detectives, false confession experts, footage from TV series, and police training videos, revealing the interplay between fact and fiction in detective work and the subjectivity that constructs ‘truth’. At the intersection of legal, bureaucratic, and scientific structures, interrogation is revealed as a form of worldbuilding where, by making a situation appear real, it can become real, leading to miscarriages of justice. Indications of Guilt, pt.1 is presented in an expanded form across the transmediale studio space and includes additional works by Craigie: It is Difficult to Insult a Guilty Person, Video, 7’49” and accompanying poster Interrogation Training Certificate, framed Click, Click, looped sound (all 2021)
Film / video · Film / video
Unrendered Road
연도 미상Today we encounter the world through the prism of seemingly neutral, digital apps owned by tech giants. Unrendered Road traces the route between two ancient cities: Jerusalem and Jericho. It is only 25.6 km long and takes 38 minutes by car. It even has a number: “Highway 1.” Yet this is a journey that Google Maps will not show you. By assembling conflicting perceptual readings, Tali Liberman questions the reliability of our systems of knowledge and is testament to a passage between real places and other spaces.
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Sonja Khalecallon
연도 미상Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel is the only place that will have been left at the end of the world after the gentrification of the galaxy and the apocalypse. Welcome to the retro-future where time curves in its own spiral! Sonja Khalecallon, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos’ Drag Queen and chaotic High Femme being is a cabaret singer, multitasking cosmic healer, manicurist, cleaner, exotic dancer and TV sales-femme reports from her dystopian present as an emissary of the deep entrenchment of a techno capitalist society with its future pasts. From her dystopian present Sonja sings-and-tells tales of the retro-future and her establishment at the end of the world.
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p. staff’s vibrant, colour-coded video uses text from Heinrich von Kleist’s 19th-century play of the same name to present themes of persecution and punishment, meditating upon contemporary issues of gender, queer resistance, and the carceral state. With an unconventional narrative structure, staff’s video cuts together a narration of Kleist’s play with interviews, conversation, found footage, hand-painted animation, and song. In a series of fragmented ‘daytime’ sequences, a range of artists, writers, and performers reflect on contemporary queer and trans identities and their proximity to desire and violence. Intercut with flashes of the sun and sky, city streets and text, subjects include Sarah Schulman, Che Gossett, Macy Rodman, and Debra Soshoux. Each of these segments is punctuated by ‘night-time’ diversions, narrated by Johanna Hedva in the dual role of both narrator and Prince.
Film / video · Film / video
People Enjoy My Company explores the privatisation of Irish state telecommunications company Telecom Éireann, one of the most controversial episodes in recent Irish history. Prior to the company’s flotation on the stock market in 1999, the Irish public were promised a new form of ownership and more than half a million people (20 percent of the population) purchased shares based on the principle of it becoming a share-owning democracy. The film represents the perspectives and experiences of these soon-to-be-disappointed shareholders – after mismanagement and buyouts caused high losses and poor infrastructural investment – as shared in early online forums, chat rooms, and on social media. The artist’s extensive research sets the event against a pre-millennium backdrop of Y2K, the Celtic Tiger economic boom and emerging ideologies of technological emancipation. Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland with exhibition funding from Brightening Air. The development was funded by a Rapid Residency Award from Science Gallery Dublin. Film by Frank Sweeney Animation by Andrew Loughnane Script editing & narration by Matt Bratko Music: Scooter - Back in Ireland (Club Tools 1996) DJ Healer - The Great Escape (All Possible Worlds 2018) Archive: RTÉ Archives Irish Film Archives at the IFI Material from the Bord Fáilte collection at the Irish Film archive courtesy of Fáilte Ireland Internet Archive
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Swinguerra
연도 미상Bárbara Wagner + Benjamin de Burca
Things become heated between rival groups of dancers in the swirling Swinguerra, a play on words with the dance swingueira and the word guerra (war). The dancers are generally non-binary – an implicit commentary on the repression the current president of Brazil. The power of Swinguerra lies in its nuanced exploration of social injustice and systematic oppression. While the film and its cast are not declarative in their political stances, the performances and the narrative build a striking atmosphere of resilience and resistance. The film achieves its unique dynamism through Wagner and de Burca’s careful and direct collaboration with the performers at each stage of production. Their multi-layered and non-hierarchical consideration of perspectives welcomes expertise and input from all dancers and crew equally. What results is a merging of reality and fiction, the stage and the street. The filming itself is steady and focused, giving the movement of the dancers full and dedicated attention, enhancing the strength of their performances and personhood. Wagner and de Burca not only value the aesthetics of the dance forms they document but also underscore the social factors such as race, gender and economics by which the performers are ‘defined’ outside of the film.
Film / video · Film / video
A Paradise Out of A Common Field is a short animated film that explores the iconography of the zombie. While the origin of the zombie in cultural history is relatively unknown, within the confines of this film, she emerges from a lush garden before being submerged by the ocean. Playing with dream worlds consisting of feral horses and writhing flowers, horizons and image planes unfold to disorient viewers. The audio meanwhile transports listeners through a history of the Irish graveyard and its relationship to trauma. Originally commissioned by RTÉ Shine Your Light Art Commissions 2020 for Illuminations Gallery.
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Sour Dirt
연도 미상Sour Dirt attempts to render the poisonous, weedy and weird reality of digital world-making by navigating the liminal spaces between unruly wilds, non-living growth, and toxic clouds. Developed within a time of multivalent crises, the video work maps an experiential unconscious of our relationship to Land/Life/Nature and how we interact with, manipulate, and journey through this, in physical and digital spaces. It interrogates how we consume, imagine, capture, and experience ecologies and landscapes to tell complex stories of a mutating climate and our ceaseless extraction, manipulation, production and consumption. Sound design: Donna Haringwey, mastered by Dan at Dadub Studios
Film / video · Film / video
Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva
Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum is a film dedicated to tenderness. It reproduces a radical sensibility we learned from listening to the blues, from listening to skin, to heat, and from listening to echoes, to listening itself. We ask: Could tenderness dissolve total violence? Could tears displace total extraction? We reimagine the human and its subject formation, away from predatory desire and lethal abstraction, away from the mind and eyes and noble senses, away from extraction and its articulations as ethnography, border regimes, slavery, sexual abuse, trade, and mining. Instead we turn to skin, resonance, and tenderness as the raw material of our reimagined earthy sensibility. Remembering that to be tender is to soften like supple grass, to attend to is to care for, to serve. Serving, we know, is the opposite of slavery, just as violence might dissolve with care. The screeing is part of the culture program related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2020 and is supported by the Government of Canada / Embassy of Canada to Germany.
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AN GLÉACHT
연도 미상Outsider artist Caoimhín Breathnach (1934–2009) lived as a recluse in Knockvicar, County Roscommon for all his life. Breathnach’s artistic practice focussed on the creation of “subliminal” tapes and films which he believed possessed the capacity to shift consciousness. In these works, Ogham magickal scales, crystallography, astronomy, folklore, and natural phenomena are combined with found audio and visual material to produce an idiosyncratic, esoteric system of correspondences. Breathnach spent the last years of his life planning a work called AN GLÉACHT. The work was to combine subliminal tapes and films with filmed footage showing a sequence of occult rituals. For out of doors, the screening of AN GLÉACHT is accompanied by a live electronic performance by composers Mario de Vega and Tomomi Adachi.
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Ambient Hardcore
연도 미상Nazanin Noori presents Dark Ambient, Contemporary Classical, Drone and Chant, combining Sufi devotional music with manipulated and unreleased tracks by the producer herself. The performance refers to the Sufist state of ḥāl and Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening methods, which involve leaving habitual consciousness in order to develop an internal sensorial world separate from that of the musician.
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Bad People, Bad News
연도 미상The historical background for Bad People, Bad News is the story of the Victory Arch monument erected by Saddam Hussein in 1989. This consists of two triumphal arches, each formed by two 43-metre-long swords held by arms protruding from the ground. The arms and hands for the monument were made in Europe and are said to have been modelled on Hussein himself, who reportedly had many doubles. A copy of his fingerprint was stored in the safe of the London foundry responsible and caused a stir when Hussein was arrested and questions were raised about his identity. Starting with the history of the monument’s creation, the installation addresses the question of how the ideologies of dictatorships become part of the writing of history. It is situated in the context of addressing the propaganda machinery of the Islamic State terrorist militia and its brutal strategies of destroying archives and monuments, and the theft and sale of art and cultural assets, as well as media self-dramatisation at cultural sites such as Palmyra. In this essayistic film, the different contexts, stories and experiences are recounted and interwoven by three Kurdish women. They meet every year in a different presidential suite of a hotel to celebrate the death of the ex-president and dictator Saddam Hussein. The focus is on a box they always carry with them. It is an archive of drawings, texts and events that they created after Hussein’s death. From this collection they draw details and cues that set their stories in motion again and again. In this way, an overall narrative is formed about states, dictatorships, monuments, terror and questions about power and interpretive sovereignty, originality and forgery. The film resists the staging of media images by avoiding them altogether and negotiates the possibilities of memory itself as it tells a story about disappearance. The essayistic film installation was originally produced for the exhibition "Arbeit am Gedächtnis – Transforming Archives" at Akademie der Künste, Berlin and is still on view until 19 September. With and by: Hatice Aktaș, Gülistan Durç, Gülizar Karagöz Baran Hêvî, Paul Niedermayer, Sozdar Koçer, Konstantin von Sichart, Arez Asso Anwar, Antonia Lange, Niklas Binzberger, Nicolas Keil, Tobias Gringel, Max Heesen, Venus Nemitz, Anna Philippa Müller, Dastan Jasim, Leyla Yenirce, Eren Kılıç, Kadir Doğan, Şahin Özel, Daniel Erlemann, Diljar Boseli, Caio Soares, Jens Crull
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Incantation, Wendy
연도 미상Frances Scott, Dave Tompkins, Stine Hebert, Beth Bramich
Responding to the work of composer Wendy Carlos as part of a new book Incantation, Wendy (2021), Frances Scott is joined in conversation by contributors Dave Tompkins, Stine Hebert, and Beth Bramich to reflect on Carlos’s music and her connected interests, including photography of solar eclipses. Meditating on Carlos as “The Original Synth”, they will explore the unbounded voice in collaboration, synthesis, and transition; through vocoders, archives, rereadings, light pulses, solar flares, and cyclical returns. The event includes recordings of Carlos discussing vocal synthesis and her electronic orchestration in albums from Switched-On Bach to Digital Moonscapes, live readings from the book, and excerpts from Scott’s recent moving-image work, developed while making her film fan-letter Wendy (2022). Incantation, Wendy is published by An Endless Supply under their Bobo imprint, and forms part of Wendy, a research residency and commission with TACO!. Supported by Arts Council England and Peabody.
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The film‘s title is a quote from the famous text by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, which appears intermittently in this video not only as a verbatim script but as a literary tribute to one of the most enigmatic creatures of Mexican wildlife: the axolotl. Translated from Nahuatl as an “animal of water,” the axolotl is an amphibian endemic to the ancient valley of Mexico’s lacustrine system, which today holds one of the most populous cities in the world, Mexico City. 360 km from Mexico City, Lake Pátzcuaro and its Purépecha heritage is home to another little known axolotl cousin species: the achoque. Discovered in 1984 by a herpetologist from the Museum of Natural History in New York, the achoque was about to become extinct as it served as food for local communities around the lake. It is, however, its alleged curative property based on its advanced capacity for cell regeneration that caught the attention of a community of nuns from the historic Dominican order in the town. becoming the main centre for the preservation and research of this species, the aquarium is a workshop for the preparation of a medicinal syrup that includes honey, herbs and cells of the animal itself that is sold as a treatment for muscle aches or respiratory problems. With special permission from the order, Arancio enters the private, most intimate spaces pertaining to the monastic life of the nuns and introduces us to their daily work serving the church and caring for the animal; the theatre for acts of worship, reverence and care. Adapted from a text by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa
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Creamatorium 2
연도 미상Creamatorium 2 is a collection of sculptures, images, and text that explores the grave and the cemetery as garden spaces under colonial rule in Ireland, contrasting it with English approaches to land ownership and garden design in the 17th and 18th centuries. The series merges suppressed queer Irish histories with interspecies communication, time travel, parallel universes, and dream worlds, and is accompanied by a performance and reading by Dylan Kerr, a non-binary performer from Dublin. Guided by the necropastoral and the subterranean (where death lives) “strange meetings” happen between North Belfast equine apparitions, the soil, the dead, and the internet.
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All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes tracks the public administration of light and darkness as an essential policing tool. The video moves between cities like New York and Paris, with the artist’s native Beirut setting the central pulse. Creating an associative genealogy that moves from whale oil lamps to gas lanterns to LED bulbs, from blackouts to curfews, the video is comprised of found footage and material from the artist’s phone. Layering and splicing disparate kinds of sound and image, Aivazian generates a sensorial meditation on how the fundamentals of human vision – light hitting the retina – were mechanised into tools that capture our movements, be it in everyday life or on screen.
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Inventing a poetic path through images created with Louis Daguerre's centuries-old photographic device, 16mm film cameras, pixelated video games consoles, early smartphones and contemporary computer interfaces, the work asks: what aspects of reality have these different technologies been designed to document? What phenomenon, either too slow or too fast to be recorded, has escaped their capture? Are there still dimensions of our experience on Earth that have never been visually documented, and for which photographic technologies are yet to be invented? An investigation of the explicit and unspoken ideologies encapsulated in technology, the video unfolds as a web of apparently unrelated stories, progressively revealing patterns of technologically determined political erasure.
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Forensickness
연도 미상Forensickness is a performance-based exploration of the history of critical thinking and the ruthless politics of truth production. It grew out of an attempt to analyse Chris Kennedy's film 'Watching the Detectives' and Galibert-Laîné's deep dive into the expansive media archives produced after the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013.
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Heads May Roll
연도 미상Katerina Suvorova, Moldiyar Yergebekov
Filmed in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Heads May Roll is a conversation between filmmaker Katerina Suvorova and fellow activist and writer Moldiyar Yergebekov. Together the pair discuss subjects explored in Suvorova’s forthcoming feature films One Year Chronicles and Qyz Bolsyn (May It Be A Girl) and draw attention to the daily acts of defiance performed by citizens demanding social change in Kazakhstan. In her film One Year Chronicles, Suvorova traces a path from the murder of a young Kazakh Olympian to the subsequent 2019 civil rights movement, Oyan Qazaqstan (Wake up Kazakhstan). In Qyz Bolsyn (May It Be A Girl), she follows a diverse group of women from across Central Asia whose given names bluntly express their parent’s unfulfilled wishes for a boy while expressing their hopes for future male offspring. The film features women with traditional names, including Uldana (the soul of a boy), Ulkayda (where is the boy?) and Kyzdygoy (no more girls). Exploring the socio-political impact of these films in Kazakhstan, the pair highlight the ongoing political oppression, systemic gender discrimination and colonialism's continuing consequences in the ex-Soviet state. Heads May Roll was commissioned by transmediale 2021–22 and is supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Kazakhstan. Russian translation by Duman Nursila.
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Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Ben Evans James
There is a space that exists between the narrative an image tells and the sensory effects it has on us that surpass that story. This is a space the French philosopher Jacques Rancière defined as the spectacle of the image, a force that beckons us to submit to its will - to free fall into the image. Through a series of sculptural installations installed in the transmediale studio, Chloé Galibert-Laîné explores how the image constructs its spectacle in order to equip the spectator with new ways to resist and refuse its power. Treating the image as an artefact that’s been engineered by the filmmaker, Galibert-Laîné and Evans James place the image through a series of theoretical processes that seek to break it back down into its component parts. These processes ‘reverse-engineer’ the image to reveal its source of power, exposing the gaps in its construction that allow alternate readings and understandings to manifest (Zimmerman, 2019). This process of reverse engineering takes in four principles of material science, exploring how they might relate to the construction of the image: viscosity, abrasion, buoyancy and conductivity. Free Falls into the Image was commissioned for transmediale 2021–22. With thanks for additional curatorial support from Rebecca Smith. The concept is inspired by the research and writing of Patricia R. Zimmerman, professor of Screen Studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, USA. Zimmerman, Patricia R (2019), Documentary Across Platforms, Indiana University Press, Indiana USA
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In The Mad Man’s Laughter, Alaa Mansour questions the politics of the circulation of images to engage with the simulacra of the so-called ‘war on terror’ and the ubiquitous surveillance it has since spawned. Exploring the fictitious entities at play in the military-entertainment complex, the film embarks on a journey across artefacts and rules shaped by modalities of power and control. Operating with a form of speculative archaeology, Mansour brings together archival material from US military footage, found media, computer-generated imagery, sounds, and texts. Navigating violences both visible and latent, The Mad Man’s Laughter critiques colonial-militaristic image production and the data that feeds algorithmic biases. Commissioned and produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary for stage in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan.
Film / video · Film / video
Dawn Chorus
2020In Dawn Chorus: Beta, Stine Deja’s newborn avatars sit in a circle, singing in chorus, celebrating their rebirth. Part machine, part human, part everyday commodity, the avatars conjure up one possibility of life after the cryogenic freezing. (A practice where human bodies are preserved at -196 degrees celcius after clinical death, in the hope that they may be brought back to life if/when science catches up.) As an exercise in speculative thinking, the installation explores the hope that resurrection may one day be possible – a hypothesis into which 400 cryogenically frozen people have already bought into. A meditation on the afterlife as a commodity and progress as faith, Deja questions the morality and ethics of resurrection and reproduction technologies, and the techno-solutionist fantasies of immortality. The single-channel video (Dawn Chorus, 2021, 3’01’’) has been commissioned by the Goethe-Instituts East Asia for the media art project Hybrid by Nature. Further support provided by the Danish Arts Council.
Installation · Installation
Queering Damage
2020Queering Damage is a methodology (sort of) for engaging with the damages that patriarchocolonial technosciences, turbo-capitalism, and totalitarian informatics have inflicted on living and other modes of existence. Extending queer sensibilities concerned with individual and collective injury, the manual sets out to name, formulate and partially repair various types of intersecting damages, if possible and desired. Through fictional mathematics and practices of resistance, The Underground Division considers how damages might be understood differently. For the exhibition, the methodological operations of the manual are dispersed between the artworks, making space to formulate a queering damage analytics towards possible partial reparations of the damages presented... or not. The Underground Division invited transmediale to apply and interpret the methodology for abandon all hope ye who enter here. Find the full manual here.
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The Subterranean Imprint Archive is a research project that envisions a counter-archive of technopolitics and nuclearity on the African continent. It examines Africa’s role in the development of the first atomic bombs through the Shinkolobwe mine in the former Belgian Congo, the source of the uranium used for its development. Together with Congolese researcher Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol, Lo-Def Film Factory engaged with central and southern African archives to unearth contested histories of mineral extraction, uneven distribution, and e-waste. The work brings together first-hand testimonials, lectures, and found audio to build a multi-vocal portrait of the relationship between a historical moment, its actors and locations, and the present. The work was produced during the What Stays – Archiving Care residency, a year-long project in cooperation with transmediale festival, the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Academy of Arts, and the Goethe-Institut Slovakia. In partnership with the Goethe-Institut South Africa.
Research project · Research project
What is in a name? What is the legacy of the moorkop, a chocolate-glazed choux pastry whose name is a racial slur? Drawing attention to the construction and persistence of societal and ethnic divisions (hidden in names and elsewhere), Cihad Caner brings to life a ghostly apparition of the Dutch dessert, who recites lines from Shakespeare’s Othello in old Dutch. The pastry’s name was first deployed in the Middle Ages to name indigenous Amazigh and now designates people of North African descent as Europe’s “Other”. The pastry protagonist speaks and sings about stereotypes while reflecting on debates in Dutch media about its own name change to chocoladebal. The video challenges and calls on viewers to think about the prejudices of representation and the meaning of a name. This project was made possible with the support of CBK Rotterdam, PTGui and Mondriaan Fonds.
Animation · Animation
Entanglement
2021Exploring the materiality of data and the sets of relations that shape how we live, Entanglement probes how our desires, as expressed through our data consumption, territorialise and heat the physical landscape. Standing at the centre of the exhibition, the sculpture reimagines the data centre as a bonfire, reflecting on this infrastructure’s role in organising social relations and generating heat. Made up of real-time thermographic imaging and server racks, the work generates AI texts and soundscapes from a quarry in Valentia Island, Ireland, where the first transatlantic cable was pulled ashore in 1857. Drawing attention to the material footprint of internet searches and cloud services, Entanglement brings to the fore the thermal forces and sounds of extraction linked to data. Entanglement is an initiative of Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council, Ireland, and represented Ireland in the Venice Biennale 2021. The work is supported by the European Union as part of the Artsformation Project. Further support is provided by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Installation · Installation
The beating of Kalabari drums summon goddesses, gods, and spiritual beings amid the chatter of the streets of Buguma, Nigeria, and the swaying of Injiri cloths. Remaining Threads questions how traditional beliefs, cultural heritage, embodied knowledge, and spirituality are mediated and altered by technology and the ruse of progress. In recent years, Injiri textiles worn in Kalabari ceremonies have been produced by machines in China, replacing the handmade processes traditionally carried out by craftswomen. Reflecting on these shifts and their implications for women’s creative practice, social roles, technologies, and aesthetics, Ibiye Camp asks what is at stake in processes of automation and what traces of social and spiritual values remain?
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Unlock
연도 미상With high financial ambitions and associations with libertarian ideology, new blockchains have become the forefront of the commodification of digital art. Caught between contradictory aspirations as both currencies and speculative assets, cryptocurrencies are desirable for the purposes of financial fraud, the deregulation of money, price manipulation, and as high-risk investments. Exploring the frictions between a non-fungible token – something that can not be “funged” (changed) – on a so-called immutable blockchain, Unlock considers these limits of NFTs as a medium not only as a form of reference to a cultural gesture. Reclaiming the scammy environment of speculative blockchain protocols, and the ethical problems of compensating aura with spent energy; Unlock asks: Can a physical or unintended interaction manipulate an NFT? Can a generative manifesto be traded? Can the artist be trusted to control the artwork after it’s commodified? What risks are attached to a cultural asset that unexpectedly changes in context and conditions over time? With the kind support of Mondriaan Fund.
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The Dust
2021Instruments of ritual echo through a deserted Tibetan landscape, while Buddhist chants wash over water-powered prayer wheels and the wreckages of industrial machinery. In The Dust, Tianzhuo Chen reveals a world in disorder where objects and ceremonial instruments are linked by absurd logics of chaos and creation. Inspired by the funeral ritual of the sky burial, where the deceased is left in the open air to decompose and be scavenged by vultures, the installation maps the passage from death to rebirth in a world without humans. Beginning with water and mud and ending in the sky, blown about by mountain winds, Tianzhuo weaves together Buddhist cosmology, corporate visual language, and nightlife hedonism to question the fragility and absurdity of contemporary life and its systems of belief.
Installation · Installation
Preview of Constant
연도 미상Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner
Constant is a hallucinatory journey through the social and political histories of measurement. From early modern European land enclosures to the French Revolution and the current frontier of Big Science, the film traces the relationship of measurement standardisation to power, ideals of democratisation, and the realities of dispossession. Cinematic and technical images that begin as products of measurement systems are stretched beyond their primary functions to describe the resistance of lived experience to symbolic abstractions. Supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Credits Text/direction/camera/edit/sound design: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner Produced by Guillaume Cailleau for CaSk Films, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner 3D and point cloud animation: Matteo Mastrandrea Original music: dead hand Additional music: Beny Wagner Narration: Cynthia Beatt
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By The Throat
연도 미상Starting with what seems to be a trivial security check procedure at the entrance to the Tel Aviv airport, By The Throat explores the deeply engraved border that marks our oral cavity and defines the sounds and words we can pronounce. We carry within us these limits, created by our mother tongue, becoming ourselves a mobile checkpoint, wherever we are. Combining filmed testimonies, found footage, YouTube clips, and medical imagery, the film moves through sonic, anatomical and political territories, and explores how language and pronunciation are used to define, categorise and control, questioning our desire for identification and categorisation. With support by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Filmed in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Heads May Roll is a conversation between filmmaker Katerina Suvorova and fellow activist and writer Moldiyar Yergebekov. Together the pair discuss subjects explored in Suvorova’s forthcoming feature films One Year Chronicles and Qyz Bolsyn (May It Be A Girl) and draw attention to the daily acts of defiance performed by citizens demanding social change in Kazakhstan. Due to the current political situation in Kazakhstan and out of safety reasons it is not possible to screen Katerina Suvorova’s new film One Year Chronicles during the festival programme. We have decided with Katerina to show an excerpt of Suvorova’s commissioned work for transmediale - Heads May Roll. Heads May Roll was commissioned by transmediale 2021–22 and was part of the remote. response. request. film programme at transmediale studio in fall 2021. With support by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Kazakhstan. Russian translation by Duman Nursila. With support by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Goodbye ONY
2025.618 summons a spectral, slow-burning ritual of fragmented loops and tactile frequencies. Drawing on modular synths and Max/MSP, their performance Goodbye ONY maps diasporic memory through arhythmic pulses and haunting sonic textures—an excavation of land, exile, and identity that unfolds like a sonic séance at the molecular scale.
Live · Live · North American Premiere
Drawing from their album In uno spazio immenso , Grand River and Abul Mogard craft slow-moving, resonant soundscapes that strike a knife-edge balance between booming, operatic grandeur and soft-focus simplicity, illuminating the subtle outlines and illusory rhythms as much as the dense, almost overpowering textures. Their live performance balances weight and stillness creating space for each listener to wander inward.
Live · Live · North American Premiere
REPLIKAS
2025In REPLIKAS , Alexis Langevin-Tétrault builds a glowing metallic totem live on stage, conducting sound and light with visceral precision. Using body sensors and machine learning, he crafts a dramatic arc from somber drones to pulsing luminosity—a ritual of grief and resilience where technology channels the spiritual and the unseen.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
aria (aka Dan Driscoll) explores sonic resilience in a fine line between crises and opportunity , a dub-rooted live performance shaped during his recovery from leg amputation. Fusing deep bass, analog FX, breakbeats, and media fragments, he transforms personal adversity into textured soundscapes inspired by dub traditions and the noise of modern disinformation.
Live · Live · World Premiere
ANIMAL
2025Ash Fure presents ANIMAL , an immersive performance where seismic sub-bass, tactile light, and hyper-detailed noise collide. Driven by acoustic interference and physical intensity, her process fuses custom technologies with raw sonic material to destabilize space and perception through a sensory, body-oriented experience.
Live A/V · Canadian Premiere · Live A/V
Bergsonist debuts 3alam-building: Intuitional Psychoanalytic Reveries , blending live vocals, textured soundscapes, and dance-driven rhythms. Rooted in intuitive worldbuilding, her set channels ethno-futuristic electronica and expansive beats, tracing a vibrant line between tradition and speculative reality.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Between hypnotic rhythm and analog warmth, Claire conjures a live set where groove meets texture. With a finely tuned hardware setup and deep musical intuition, she sculpts sound in real time—organic, minimal, and deeply immersive.
Live · Live · World Premiere
SOPLO
2025Daniela Huerta unveils SOPLO , a hallucinatory suite of spectral synths, environmental recordings, and abstract rhythms. Built from soundtracks for Iván Argote’s films, her meticulous layering and sonic mutations evoke lost memories and shifting temporalities, forging a narrative space where sound, place, and history dissolve into introspective resonance.
Live · Canadian Premiere · Live
DELAVELOUR revisits Paranoid Fantasies in a live set blending atmospheric minimal house and funky grooves. Driven by a quest for sonic reinvention, his meticulous reworks blur the line between studio and stage. Inspired by decades of underground culture, his performance offers a raw, immersive dive into evolving dancefloor textures.
Live · Canadian Premiere · Live
Blending melodic techno, classical roots, and ancestral sound, Things Are Not What They Seem is Djeity ’s immersive debut with visuals by al11z and cello by Fili Gibbons . In the SAT dome, live vocals and audio-reactive 3D worlds conjure a surreal, emotionally charged voyage through identity, healing, and transformation.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
VLF/VHF
2025Florence Delphine Roux unveils an immersive sound work that captures ghostly voices via VHF and low-frequency radio waves. Blending mysterious testimonies with interference, the piece blurs the line between perception and the invisible.
Live · Live
France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
In Lueurs Quantiques , France Jobin and Markus Heckmann delve into the paradoxes of antimatter through modular sound, light, and haze. Collision-like sonic textures—dense, fragmented, and precise—merge with real-time visuals to create a quantum-inspired landscape. Shifting beams and shadows sculpt a fleeting architecture of energy and abstraction.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Hypercast
2025Gadi Sassoon & Portrait XO feat. 555n
As a world premiere, Hypercast merges experimental vocals, live violin, and AI-driven sonification into a rich, real-time exchange. Born from a SAT residency, this trio— Gadi Sassoon , Portrait XO , and synthetic agent 555n —invites audiences into a bold collision of human intuition and machine creativity.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Roaming in Chaos
2025Gayance returns to Montréal with a magnetic live set alongside seven top local musicians, weaving UK Garage, broken beats, and alt-R&B into a soulful narrative. Premiering tracks from her upcoming album Roaming , she transforms personal rites of passage into raw, danceable storytelling you won’t want to miss.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Morphose
2025In Morphose , Gendron, Myre, Tessier interweave saxophone, augmented guitar, and modular synthesis into a fluid audiovisual system. Blending ambient, dub techno, and noise, they craft evolving soundscapes that bend space and perception—live and in sync through TouchDesigner. A hypnotic interplay of tension, texture, and collective expression.
Live A/V · Canadian Premiere · Live A/V
Guillaume Côté transforms a hypersensitivity to light into a poetic audiovisual device. In Discrete Pulse of Light , synchronized sound triggers a luminous choreography of lenses and reflective surfaces. This deeply personal performance blurs the line between perception and sensation, evoking starry visions behind closed eyes.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Les Empires
2025Guillaume Coutu Dumont & Line Katcho
Guillaume Coutu Dumont and Line Katcho unveil a new iteration of Les Empires , blending retro-futuristic synths, hypnotic grooves, and mythological echoes. Joined by Nicolas Boucher on keyboards, this open-air performance at Théâtre de Verdure invites the audience into a vivid, cinematic world of sound and vision.
Live A/V · Canadian Premiere · Live A/V
Portals
2025Portals marks the world premiere of i+eo , the duo of IHA and ephemeral objects . Merging AI visuals, modular soundscapes, and vivid colours inspired by Southeast Asian street life, they create a dancefloor charged with deep bass and shifting textures—a hypnotic journey where memory, identity, and imagination collapse into one.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Homeostasis
2025Ida Toninato & Pierre-Luc Lecours
In Homeostasis , baritone sax and modular synth intertwine beneath a dome of shifting light and real-time visuals. Ida Toninato and Pierre-Luc Lecours sculpt a vibrant system where sound and image continually rebalance, echoing nature’s rhythms. Their performance pulses with intensity—an immersive meditation on coexistence, ecology, and equilibrium.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Cash For Teeth
2025In Cash For Teeth , Jade Telemann ’s surreal debut conjures a hypnotic blend of ambient techno, live vocals, and twisted humor. Laurie Sévigny-Couture’s theatrical persona weaves irony, fairytale grit, and spoken word into a raw, unforgettable world premiere.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Revival
2025Revival is a real-time collision of human spontaneity and AI-driven sound. Vancouver’s K-PHI-A collective—featuring a drummer, electronic musician, and visual jockey—joins forces with intelligent agents to co-create evolving rhythms and morphing neural visuals. These AI systems don’t just assist, they initiate, respond, and adapt. As beats, textures, and visuals constantly shift, the boundaries between human intent and machine creativity blur, offering a high-voltage glimpse into the future of live performance.
Live A/V · Canadian Premiere · Live A/V
In Outsider, from Within , Montréal-based producer Lio transforms themes of war, exile, and identity into a meditative live set. Anchored in hypnotic minimalism and jazz-inflected textures, the performance invites listeners into a liminal space—where personal rupture becomes collective resonance, and sound bridges the gap between disconnection and shared experience.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Chronomorphose
2025L M O transforms memory into a dreamlike territory with Chronomorphose , an immersive piece built from personal archives and decaying analog media. Floating point clouds and spatialized soundscapes morph in real-time, dissolving boundaries between time and space in a collective dive through fragmented, hauntingly beautiful traces of the past.
Live A/V · Canadian Premiere · Live A/V
Action
2025With Action , machìna strips techno down to its core: the pure interplay of rhythm and sound. Built live with just a drum machine and her voice, each set explores the abstraction of simple beats and layered percussion. Fluid and minimal, the performance adapts in real-time to the energy of the room—live music made for dancing, anywhere.
Live · Live · North-American Premiere
Lattice 3D/AV
2025Max Cooper ’s Lattice 3D/AV is a living sculpture of light and sound. Projections, lasers, and translucent layers pulse to his latest album On Being , reimagined live with each performance. Co-created with Architecture Social Club , this genre-spanning A/V experience bends space into pure emotion.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North-American Premiere
Surface Healing
2025Blurring the lines between physical immersion and emotional healing, Mok-T and Bar Rubinstein present Surface Healing , an audiovisual odyssey. Inspired by the dive reflex and the calming depths of “deep” music, the duo navigates between introspection and bursts of light, exploring resilience, community, and the dancefloor’s quiet power to heal.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Motia & Nait Saves present Log in to your life —a sci-fi performance where cinematic ambient, surreal visuals, and custom-built scenographies converge. Guided by an omnipresent AI, this immersive experience explores identity, emotion, and autonomy in a world where bodies and memories are reprogrammed. Blending digital storytelling with interactive design, it invites reflection on what it means to be human in a techno-synthetic reality.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North-American Premiere
D.C Live Trial
2025Ouri fuses classical training with electronic grit in a performance that feels both intimate and cinematic. Drawing from Frame of a Fauna, she crafts dense, emotional landscapes where cello, synths, and whispered vocals collide. For this concert, Charline Dally ’s visuals will echo Ouri’s soundworld, guiding the audience through an immersive audiovisual experience.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Liquid Constancy
2025Phèdre returns with a raw, semi-improvised live set shaped by their new album Liquid Constancy . Performed entirely on hardware, the duo, composed of April Aliermo and Daniel Lee, weaves club, jungle, and breakbeat influences through a kinetic blend of samples and synths. Expect deep grooves, sharp turns, and a pulse that never lets go.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Luce
2025In Luce , Quayola transforms Italy’s vast Archivio Luce into algorithmic paintings, where machines reinterpret history through glitches and form. Classical imagery dissolves into abstract code, producing a poetic tension between memory and mechanical error. A striking fusion of archival depth and digital abstraction.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North-American Premiere
Ekbar
2025In Ekbar , Raf Reza reimagines Bengali folk through a dub-wise electronic lens. MPC, synths, and tabla drum machine break down mystic songs and village sounds into modular rhythms. A futuristic sonic vision of Bangladesh emerges—where tradition and machine coalesce in a vibrant act of cultural reclamation.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Cyberdelia
2025Sabrina Ratté & Roger Tellier-Craig
In Cyberdelia , Sabrina Ratté and Roger Tellier-Craig merge sonic architecture and AI-driven visuals into a shifting mindscape. Echoing 90s cyberculture, this live performance probes the psyche-machine interface, revealing mesmerizing and disquieting visions of a techno-future haunted by the Anthropocene.
Live A/V · Live A/V
In Une interprétation d’un moment , Satoshi Tomiie delivers a raw, all-hardware live set—fully improvised on a Eurorack modular system. Navigating dub, house, and techno, the legendary producer sculpts a one-of-a-kind performance where every sound is shaped in the moment, with no safety net.
Live · Canadian Premiere · Live
SLOWTECHERS
2025SIM ’s SLOWTECHERS is a live manifestation of Slow Tech—a genre-fluid manifesto blurring the lines between Dancehall, Dub, Jungle, and beyond. Through real-time improvisation, spatialized sound, and conceptual rigor, this performance transforms the dancefloor into a sonic lab where structure bends, and new rhythms emerge.
Live · Live · World Premiere
SLIBERIUM crafts dreamlike audio fragments through digital distortion and experimental pop. Performed with a custom rig—Ableton Push, PS4 controller, and granular looper—this immersive live set channels the desire to escape reality into a shared sonic hallucination, suspended between consciousness and code.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Return
2025Stephen Beaupré returns with Return , a finely tuned live set blending lush micro-house, intricate sampling, and hypnotic rhythms. Featuring new material from Vanishing Night and upcoming exclusives on The Nite Owls, this immersive performance balances precision with improvisation—offering a dancefloor experience that’s intimate, expressive, and deeply resonant.
Live · Live
Amor
2025In Amor , Techno Para Dos navigates a deep emotional spectrum through shifting sonic terrains—blending ambient, IDM, techno, and breaks. This live set is a meditation on love’s many forms, merging intricate rhythms with atmospheric depth to create a performance both tender and kinetic.
Live · Canadian Premiere · Live
fran·gere
2025The Bionic Harpist & Techno Para Dos
fran·gere by The Bionic Harpist and Techno Para Dos fractures the line between ancient resonance and electronic abstraction. Altered harp and modular synthesis form a genreless, meditative soundscape—an intimate rupture where the acoustic breathes through the digital, and silence expands into sonic vastness.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Flor do Cerrado
2025In Flor do Cerrado , thisquietarmy & Mothrspace dissolve the boundaries between organic resonance and electronic abstraction. Live-processed cello and textured guitar merge into a haunting soundscape—at once intimate and alien. A raw, atmospheric dialogue where the natural world meets its digital echo.
Live · Live · World Premiere
HEAVY WEATHER
2025In HEAVY WEATHER , TUSH navigates the contradictions of artistry under late capitalism with sweat, soul, and 4/4 grooves. Fusing hardware, live vocals, and bass with radical honesty, this improvised set blends house, disco, and real-time audience play—honouring the legacy of Black women in dance music while pushing the form forward.
Live · Live · World Premiere
RAPID EYE MOVEMENT drifts through the five stages of sleep, merging voice, visuals, and audience-submitted dreams into a shared subconscious landscape. YeffYeff’s vocal experimentation and Bertie Sampson’s generative visuals blur reality and dream in a deeply immersive journey shaped live in the moment.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Welcome to Antibo's traumatic performance space, where we become present along the cracks of the system. How can we face the media when reality itself is a "deep fake," where the very structure of reality itself consists of suppressing the real? When image and matter are lost and the material body is left behind, what can our bodies convey? Staring into the exit deep into the darkness, where the despair of an economic system is at odds with the concept of permanence.
Performance · Performance
Drichtel
2021An immersive sound performance, accompanied by spatial audio-reactive visuals. It is inspired by underwater life, feelings of oppression and anxiety in the face of a gigantic world that we discover little by little... The work is built using the movements of the performer who places sound and visual objects in the dome.
Performance · Performance
Anthologie
2021Inspired by both New Aesthetic and the early years of computer graphics, Anthologie is an over-saturated collage of connected worlds depicting our relation with the virtual.
Performance · Performance
Inertia
2021In physics, a body's inertia is the tendency of an object to maintain its speed, to maintain its movement without any external influence. Inertia is in this case an audiovisual and immersive study of the movement, speed, strength and resistance of abstract bodies facing physical and temporary changes of their condition. Fulldome show Inertia makes you enter an environment full of colourful, always moving visuals and accelerating electronic soundscapes.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Emergence
2021world premiere of 'Emergence', his new album inspired by the Theory of Emergence in which disruptions, fusions, synergies, structures and unpredictable textures give rise to new evolutions and sonic alterations, self-organising in the midst of chaos.
Performance · Performance
C0R3-C0LL4PS3
2021Core Collapse is a short animated sci-fi movie for fulldome. A frantic ride inside a self-imploding spatial construction. A claustrophobic architectural nightmare defying the limits of psychological storytelling within an immersive audiovisual environment. Experience free fall through shifting structures and ever-changing mutant spaces built in time, and go beyond logic and perception with the latest audiovisual creation from Barcelona-based studio PAST, featuring an impressive sound design by Deathvox.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Indivisible
2021An immersive sound performance, accompanied by spatial audio-reactive visuals. It is inspired by underwater life, feelings of oppression and anxiety in the face of a gigantic world that we discover little by little... The work is built using the movements of the performer who places sound and visual objects in the dome.
Performance · Performance
Synichi Yamamoto + Seiichi Sega & Intercity-Express
Noesis is an immersive audiovisual work by Synichi Yamamoto + Seiichi Sega & Intercity-Express. The work was selected as a Jury Recommended Work at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival, and premiered at MUTEK.JP in 2017. It has since been performed live at MUTEK Montreal, as well as in Mexico and Belgium. For the 2021 MUTEK.JP Edition the artists will present an updated live version with 4K stereoscopic view and 8.1ch sound, optimized for the newly renovated "Dome Theater Gaia" at Miraikan.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Save Lives
2021Intercity-Express & Shuhei Matsuyama
Finally, Intercity-Express presents its updated Save Lives. version of the unleashing of its audiovisual masterpiece.
Live A/V · Live A/V
#OBJ 1
2021The work #OBJ 1 by the collective Na. B3 collective, this installation explores the ephemerality of this border and with it the individuality of the object.
Installation · Installation
Chroma
2022Chroma means the quality and intensity of color. The Chroma installation proposes discovering the imperceptible with the materialization of light waves that become visible and hypnotic. Traveling through a long transparent tube, the laser beams bounce off different strategic locations and each one becomes a thread reminiscent of serapes fabrics. The reflections of the beams ephemerally reproduce lines of triangular patterns. The spectrum of colors thus materializes before the viewer through cycles of wavelengths. The spatial dimension of these pulses of light resonates like a musical score in an unpredictable dance.
Installation · Installation
Entanglement
2022France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
Entanglement is basically an artistic project at the crossroads of scientific research inspired by the concept and properties of entanglement in quantum physics and quantum fields theory. The sources of inspiration of France Jobin and Markus Heckmann are based on the two current dominant theories explaining quantum entanglement: the Copenhagen interpretation and the multiverse (quantum decoherence). In addition to these two theories, there is the fluidity of time and the principle of quantum entanglement.
Performance · Performance
MAQRUH
2022The audiovisual performance MAQRUH by Ali Phi is composed of seven elements. Together they depict the cyclical formation of an entity and include the following phases: passivity, avoidance, constriction, conformity, elevation, expiry, and revival. These stages are based on Arabic loanwords in Farsi (i.e. Farsi words with Arabic origins), based on the verb forms Enfe'al.
Live A/V · Live A/V
An improvised audiovisual performance with street-inspired sounds from the Tokyo city by Mars89 and CG that leads to another dimension by HEXPIXELS.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Empty Vessels
2022Empty Vessels is an immersive audio visual installation and performance piece. The project takes the form of three full sized cellos, locked in the metallic appendages of three bespoke robotic structures designed to support and autonomously play the cellos. Conceptually the piece is centered around an exploration of the question: is it important to have a “human touch” in art creation and performance, and why? This question unravels into several components: the parallels in human/AI learning, questions of authorship/copyright, automation and work availability/income, and modalities of expressive storytelling. Aesthetically the piece conveys the feeling that the cellos are being kept alive by the machines, like an organism on life support, or a baby in an incubator. This is mirrored abstractly in the visuals and the audio through contrast in warm, fragile, fleshy, human colors, tones and harmonies with discordant, precise, metallic and brutal ones. Oscillating slowly back and forth between the two before coming to a final high contrast section and then settling into agreement or stasis. *Supported by the SAT, Canada Council for the Arts, CALQ and remic microphones.
Performance · Performance
Through this AI DJ project, we have been exploring the future of DJ performance with AI. At first, we tried to make an AI-based music selection system as an AI DJ. In the second iteration, we utilized a few AI models on stage to generate real-time symbolic music(i.e., MIDI). In the performance, A human DJ (Tokui) controlled various parameters of the generative AI models and drum machines. This time, we aim to advance one step further and deploy AI models to generate audio on stage in near real-time. Everything you hear during the performance will be pure AI-generation (no synthesizer, no drum machine). In this performance, Emergent Rhythm, the human DJ will become an AJ or "AI Jocky" instead of a Disk Jocky, and he is expected to tame and ride the AI-generated audio stream in real-time. The distinctive characteristics of AI-based audio generation and "morphing" will provide a unique and even otherworldly sonic experience for the audience.
Performance · Performance
12.e
2022In collaboration with the art and technology festival MUTEK MX, xpan (Mexican brand of high-fidelity sound systems) presents 12.e, a spherical structure made up of 4 scaffolds that form the first system in Mexico made by hand from scratch for specialization sound and multichannel acousmatic pieces. Throughout the MUTEK week at Casa Versalles, 2 acousmatic concerts will be presented per day where you can listen to a twelve-channel adaptation of the cycle of acousmatic pieces by the Mexican composer Moisés Sacal Hadid.
Installation · Installation
Flux Emanation
2022Chloe Alexandra Thompson & aesthetic.stalemate
This year at MUTEK, the duo composed of Chloe Alexandra Thompson et Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate) will present Flux Emanation , an audiovisual work combining live field recordings, voices, immersive spatial design and intense sub-bass frequencies against a backdrop of transformative visual architecture. Through the repetition of sonic and visual elements, viewers will be enveloped in a compelling landscape of abstraction.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Sougwen 愫君 Chung's Flora Rearing Agricultural Network explores plant and machine co-naturality and biomimetic robotics, and was seeded in isolation. Now in development for a few years, the work is ready for its live premiere at MUTEK Tokyo after previous film and installation presentations at Pearl Art Museum Shanghai, SØRLANDETS Kunstmuseet Kristiansand, Honor Fraser Gallery Los Angeles, and Vancouver Art Gallery. Produced by SCILICET (Tessa Nijdam) Original score by Aquarian This performance is possible due to the support of the Embassy of Canada to Japan and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan.
Performance · Performance
LANTERN
2022with the world premiere of Kazumi's new project - 'LANTERN' - in which she reflects on the impact of religion on women, and three of the projects selected during the recent We Are Equals Music Academy.
Performance · Performance
Advienne
2022Cyril Meroni & Olivier Vasseur
Meroni and Olivier Vasseur will showcase their live A/V performance Advienne , as a North American premiere. Loosely inspired by quantum theory, this generative project contrasts 3D landscapes both tangible and abstract, ranging from the infinitesimally small to the immeasurably large, layered on rhythmic structures which in turn generate new audiovisual elements.
Live A/V · Live A/V
The guest artist is Canadian artist Robyn Moody who presents his work entitled “Wave Interference”, a kinetic sculpture consisting of 88 mechanically animated fluorescent tubes like a cascade of undulating light.
Installation · Installation
This year at MUTEK, EEJUNGMI presents A Shifting Mirror , Katie Lee 's first live performance, previewing music from her upcoming debut album. Inspired by her recent research work on rivers and the poetry of water, these songs explore the emotional landscapes of grief and the transport and change that accompany it. With the musicality of Raf Wilcot , who plays with EEJUNGMI , A Shifting Mirror is a journey through grief towards cathartic reprieve.
Performance · Performance
SYNSPECIES
2022SYNSPECIES is an audiovisual performance resulting from the collaboration between Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc . Inspired by virtual ecologies, the duo sets out to explore unnatural and dreamlike fields inhabited by fractured, multidimensional objects that cross-pollinate, merge, mutate and fight for their existence. SYNSPECIES reveals a world of unreal violence and physicality.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Attractive 'Acid' Cycles is a generative A/V performance inspired by fractal mathematics. Gaëlle Scali employs sequencers, synthesizers and samplers in order to elicit dub, acid, house and experimental-laden sound textures created from series of integers, in turn generating speculative, post-psychedelic and frankly glitchy visual universes.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Digital Detox
2022Returning to MUTEK for a second live appearance, Korea Town Acid will present Digital Detox , a unique and improvisational experience featuring the exclusive use of hardware without backing tracks, along with an impressive array of drum machines, samplers and modular synthesizers. The result will be a glitchy, hypnotic and genre-bending soundscape, ebbing and flowing in line with the eclectic artist’s mood.
Performance · Performance
Unsculpt
2022Inspired by the writings of Donna Haraway, Manuel DeLanda and the notion of ecological mysticism, Unsculpt explores speculative architectures and ecosystems created from the assemblage of human and machine agencies. Generated with artificial intelligence, hybrid landscapes of vegetal and human constructions emerge as fragments of dreams, faded postcards from an imagined future.
Performance · Performance
Déliquescence cosmique is a work in progress at the crossroads of physical science and choreography of materials and energy that obey universal laws. In this piece, a magnetic fluid is trapped in a frame, as a reflection, where a shadow is manipulated to act as an exercise in shaping the representation of the self and the human, between mutation, attraction, and fusion in its cosmological reflection. The research consists in developing the physicality of matter to use it as a visual choreographic element and by converting magnetic variations into sound. All bodies attract each other whether they are terrestrial or celestial. Gravitation is not a real force but rather a phenomenon caused by a deformation of space and time by the masses. Déliquescence cosmique raises the question of our relationship to post-humanism and the anthropocentric approach we have with space-time.
Performance · Performance
Underworld
2022Underworld is an audio/visual collaboration between Orphx (musicians Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey ) and Diagraf (video artist Patrick Trudeau ) that utilizes infrasound to explore the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the underworld as a symbol of hidden knowledge and the sublime. With modular synthesizers, software and VLF (Very Low Frequency) speakers, the performance utilizes infrasound to create distinct physiological effects that many listeners will find unusual or unsettling. Modulated by the music, the deeply hypnotic images created by Diagraf explore these same themes through ever evolving organic patterns, sacred geometry, and subtle representations of mythic figures and scenes connected to historical representations of the underworld.
Live A/V · Live A/V
L’alter-monde
2022Sandrine Deumier & Myriam Bleau
L’alter-monde is an immersive audiovisual project for fulldome format. Evocation of a cybernetic garden designed in multiple scenes, this work contemplates a potential symbiosis between the human being and a state of rediscovered nature. Through ecosophy and inter-species mutualism, it explores the possibility of identifying ourselves with a mutant nature, a plant-becoming state or the experience of infra-human lives.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Wind Fountain
2024The 'Wind Fountain' is a speculative structure composed of modular geometries inspired by the traditional wind catchers of southern Iran. Through augmented reality, it transforms into a public space element that allows pedestrians to engage with the sensory aspects of wind, both sonic and tangible. The fountain's base acts as a reservoir, metaphorically storing wind. By approaching wind as a fluid, similar to an alchemical process, the piece offers an imaginative form to experience nature through space. This work seeks to contrast the alienation of modern architecture and built environments from nature not only in form, but also their functions.
AR installation · AR installation
STROBE.RIP
2024Amnesia Scanner and Freeka Tet present STROBE.RIP , an audacious auditory and visual exploration into the interplay of human and machine realms. This performance probes the impact of digital ecosystems on contemporary existence and live music experiences. Their unique blend heightens awareness of isolation within collapsing natural and informational environments, reflecting on survival in an increasingly digital society. Their creation resonates with distinctive, immersive soundscapes that challenge the boundaries of technology and art.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North American Premiere
Warp and Weft
2024“Warp and Weft" is a generative artwork that explores the intersection of art and data. While not a direct data visualization, it takes inspiration from recorded glacier balance data collected over decades. This data acts as the raw material, informing the artwork's structure and movement.The title references the intricate weaving patterns found in traditional Iranian Termeh fabrics. Similar to the warp and weft threads that create Termeh's beauty, the data serves as the foundation upon which the artwork is built. The movements within the piece are a response to the data's fluctuations, while the color palette highlights anomalies within the dataset. This artwork extends beyond the physical piece itself. 1200 unique frames from "Warp and Weft" are used to create NFT artworks attached to tickets for the MUTEK.AE festival. By connecting art, data, and technology, "Warp and Weft" fosters a dialogue about environmental change and artistic expression in the digital age.
Digital art · Digital art
Imkan
2024The project Imkān (meaning possibility, contingent, existence in the Persian and Urdu languages) attempts to find aesthetic parallels between AI and geometry, digital pixel and Girih in Persian architectures, and between computational and cosmological codes which have the potential to act as the signifiers of the imperceptible. Each culture is the actualization of a potentiality of the human being in a specific place on earth and at a specific moment in history. We are somehow limited to a particular space-time point that shapes our episteme. Would it be possible to reconcile different epistemes to go beyond our zeitgeist?
Digital art · Digital art
All Above
2024Grand River is an Italian-Dutch composer and audio designer, who creates experimental electronic music with deep emotional tonalities and complex rhythms. At MUTEK Barcelona she will present All Above (Editions Mego, 2023), an audiovisual performance that explores the depths of orchestral sound, organic textures, electronics and synthesis in a powerful stream of compositions as delicate as they are profound, wrapped in piano, vocal explorations and enveloping pulsations
Live A/V · Live A/V
Aura
2024Hatis Noit the Japanese vocal performer hailing from distant Shiretoko in Hokkaido, will do her Barcelona live debut, performing here acclaimed album, Aura, with recent highly celebrated performances at MUTEK Japan, Montréal & Mexico.
Performance · Performance
Parallax
2024Parallax is an interactive augmented reality installation exploring the complex and at times conflicting dynamic between the artist, their artistic creation, and the viewership. The artist assumes a contemplative stance, aiming for an objective evaluation of the art-making process and acknowledging the inherent vulnerability upon which her artworks thrive. In pursuit of authenticity and allure, the system aims to expose the artist further. This immersive encounter offers a personalized interpretation of the Milgram Experiment conducted during the early 1960s, elaborating on the dynamics of obedience and disruption. Departing from the conventional scenario of a conductor commanding participants to administer electric shocks, akin to the Milgram Experiment, the artwork assumes this role by enticing the audience through interactive means. Conditional to the audience's proximity to the avatar, electric shocks are triggered accordingly, compelling the avatar to accelerate in response. The velocity of the avatar's movement on the hamster wheel is reflected in the luminous intensity emanating from the plasma globe, dynamically reacting to the audience's distance from the virtual piece.
AR installation · AR installation
Virtual Sculpture, Augmented Reality “I’m sorry I made you feel that way. extended” is an iteration specifically created for digital, online and hybrid spaces of the homonymous interactive installation. The interactive installation links an artificial avatar generated via Machine Learning AI with the artist's personal biometric data collected daily via a wearable smart ring device. The physical body state - specifically in connection to stress and tiredness - has an immediate and direct impact on its virtual extension. When physical bodily needs are neglected and fatigue or stress sets in, the AI self-body deteriorates, exhibiting fragmented and abstract behavior and making interactions increasingly challenging. In “I’m sorry I made you feel that way. extended”, the Augmented fragments are created by taking screenshots of a real time interaction with the AI avatar at different days and states, and using AI tools to generate new hybrid 3D self-bodies from two dimensional ones. In linking very personal biometric data to an AI generated avatar, “I'm sorry I made you feel that way” and the .extended augmented artefacts draw attention to our hybrid corporeality and how we can foster care both offline and, by extent, online. This intimate and intricate bond creates a new sense of responsibility for our virtual extensions and nurtures a unique emphasis on self-care that extends beyond our physicality.
AR installation · AR installation
TayAR
2024Across different mythologies, birds symbolize cycles of rebirth, inner and outer journeys, healing, and prophecy. In this work, Hazrati explores how digital messaging can take alternative shapes and forms drawing on elements from fantasy and legends. The sculpture is a database of information where each bird feather represents a wish, submitted to the AR piece in the Grafikens Hus museum application. *The project is commissioned by Grafikens Hus Museum in Sweden, as part of the app Protoworld.
AR installation · AR installation
This Bliss
2024Hendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, returns to MUTEK Barcelona to premiere a new Live AV show based entirely on the reissue of his acclaimed album 'This Bliss'. With a prolific catalog, the German has earned a place in the international electronic music scene, moving from minimalist and dreamy techno to more melodic rhythms and deep textures. The elegance of his style and a close link with nature have led him to create a wide soundscape.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Aferrado
2024Aferrado is a low-fi 3D reinterpretation of real events documented in Mexico City. With the technological error as an aesthetic stance and 3D photogrammetry as an emotional document, Esteban generates a liquid memory that expands through a fleeting event captured in the midst of chaos.
Performance · Performance
Synapse
2024Cy-Ens unveils their latest performance, Synapse , a profound exploration of the nexus between nature and technology through a six-movement suite. Masterfully blending live coding, generative algorithms, and an array of instruments including voice and Theremin, Cy-Ens creates a unique auditory and visual tableau. Synapse emphasizes the harmonious interplay between computational intelligence and human expressivity, inviting the audience into a world where sound transcends traditional confines.
Live · Live
latent body
2024After captivating audiences in Tokyo and Barcelona, Japanese artist Daito Manabe , founder of Rhizomatiks , brings his latest audiovisual performance to MUTEK Montréal this summer. With generative visuals, Manabe explores everyday materials and phenomena, uncovering essential potentialities of the human body, data, programming, and computers. Experience a unique blend of analog and digital, real and virtual.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Tales of Entropy
2024Belgian musician Roméo Poirier is set to arrive in Barcelona to present his Live AV performance titled Tales of Entropy in collaboration with the Belgian creative studio Ohme.
Live A/V · Live A/V
The Twisted Tree
2024ÅNGSTRÖM :The Twisted Tree is a phantasmagorical introspective journey taking us to the frontier of analog and digital matters. Using a surrealist mixed media collage approach, it distills a story of returning to the lands of one's childhood, distorted and filtered by emotions, the passage of time and an ever-shifting reality. The Twisted Tree is the first chapter of the ÅNGSTRÖM full-dome triptik.
Fulldome film · Fulldome film
Deity
2024Sculpture, performance, and digital media are blended in Sian Fan's practice to examine how technology shapes our physical reality. With the support of the British Council she brings us her digital performance, Deity, which merges live motion capture with physical movement, allowing interaction with a fantasy video game-inspired avatar. Set in a shrine-like space with screens mirroring inactive devices, the avatar reflects our bond with our digital selves, diving into and emerging from the 'black mirror'. The installation, featuring interactive motion capture, multi-channel video, and sound, highlights the disjointed relationship between our digital and physical existences.
Installation · Installation
DAPASHU? captivates with their eclectic electro fusion spanning house, techno, and bass. Leveraging a mix of retro and modern synths, their performance in a 360-degree projection dome offers an audio-visual spectacle. The set is designed to energize and enthuse, featuring a rhythmically diverse, bass-intensive soundscape, integrated with visually striking elements, creating a memorable, sensory-rich experience. Their innovative approach reflects a keen synthesis of nostalgic and contemporary influences, promising a uniquely thrilling hour of music and visuals.
Live · Live
Non-Face
2024Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez
Un proyecto en el que ciertas geometrías describen objetos que pueden parecer realistas, pero que no existen en el mundo físico, sino que desarrollan su verosimilitud sensual en el mundo digital. Un ejemplo famoso es el triángulo de Penrose: en la animación en 3D, este tipo de objetos suelen aparecer por los errores de malla . Los artistas han identificado estos errores frecuentes en su propia práctica y desarrollaron una estructura de datos para explorarlos visual y musicalmente.
Fulldome audiovisual work · Fulldome audiovisual work
DigitalDar
2024Sébastien Schnabel x Mandibull
Adapt initial fixed paintings into an animated universe and a dreamlike journey. This journey takes the viewer through a captivating exploration of pixels and point clouds, accompanied by the immersive sound universe created by Mandibull. The viewer's voyage spans from the Vosges valleys to the High Atlas plateaus, allowing them to discover and experience diverse architectural universes along the way. This multifaceted exploration aims to provide an alternative vision of the world, challenging the viewer's perception of surface and space.
Fulldome film · Fulldome film
Club Merengue
2024Step into Club Merengue, where DJ Hermano (Brazil) and OJPB (Canada) fuse electronic merengue with diverse electronic music styles through live synths, drum machines, and spirited percussion. Featuring Rico (Colombia), the performance reverberates with homage to merengue divas, encapsulating their legendary voices within modern beats. This vibrant, neon-lit experience embodies celebration, transforming every pulse into a dance of lights and joy.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Stefana Fratila & Diana Lynn VanderMeulen
"I want to leave this Earth behind“ is a multisensory project by Stefana Fratila and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen which centers on outer space exploration, speculative-fictive realities, and Crip futurity. Engaging audiences in an immersive exercise of imagining interplanetary and sci-fantastical atmospheres– conditions that are inherently unlivable, unbreathable, converting all human body-minds into disabled-bodied-ness. This show combines three overarching works: Sononaut (VSTs) & "I Want to Leave this Earth Behind" (2LP) by Fratila, and "A Boundless and Radiant Aura" (Extended Reality) by VanderMeulen. A research-creation residency with the Society for Arts and Technology granted Fratila and VanderMeulen the time and tools to transform their work into a 40-minute immersive A/V show, specifically formatted to the Satosphère’s multichannel sound system and 360-degree projectors. Genres: Sci-fi, Crip Futurity, XR, Art & Science, speculative futures, Extended Reality, Magic Window, Multisensory experience, Open-source, Sound art, Outer space, Experimental Animation, Immersive sound, Immersive video.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Grey Line
2024Grey Line is a live AV show by media art collective SPIME.IM. The performance delves into themes related to contemporary issues with raw sincerity, namely the inevitability of climate change and humanity’s impact on the earth. Reflecting on our exposure to and assimilation of today’s continuous media bombing, SPIME.IM attempts to describe the emotional place in which we are trapped and the "era of the absurd" we are living in, also named "the wrong timeline". Disclaimer: Grey Line contains stroboscopic effects and loud music.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Duchesse presents Procrastinate, Debate , an evocative live set exploring the intricacies of decision-making. Born in Beirut and flourishing in Montréal, her background in classical ballet and music theory enriches her genre-blending DJ performances. This show delves into the tension between delay and dialogue, a theme mirrored in her gradual, warm mixes.
Live · Live · North American Premiere
Union
2024ÈBONY brings their genre-defying sound to MUTEK with the world premiere of their album Union . Known for blending Detroit techno and Chicago house with South African melodies, their live set promises an evocative exploration of global rhythms and deep cultural narratives, resonating with the contemporary Black experience. Their creative process involves a thoughtful fusion of diverse musical traditions and an avant-garde approach to electronic music.
Live · Live · World Premiere
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Module 64
2024Module 64 is a data-driven generative system based on a height map of the real world which transforms data to create a new representation of location/ambiance.
Fulldome film · Fulldome film
Revanchist
2024Evian Christ , known for his introspective yet grandiose trance soundscapes, is set to captivate MUTEK Montréal with his profound approach to electronic music. His production technique, characterized by atmospheric layering and melodic potency, draws from a rich tapestry of influences including iconic video game scores and 2000s trance icons. His debut album, Revanchist, transcends the typical, creating a transformative live performance atmosphere. __ Show Designer: Emmanuel Biard }§{ Emmanuel Biard is currently touring productions for Aïsha Devi, Evian Christ, Trance Party, No Plexus, Blackhaine and plus44Kaligula.
Live A/V · Canadian Premiere · Live A/V
Psychotropical
2024Honeydrip debuta en MUTEK MX con uno de los actos en vivo más deliciosos que han surgido del circuito experimental de Montreal. Psychotropical live A/V es un viaje futurista y ácido lleno de electrónica de inspiración jamaiquina, guiado por las poderosas rimas dancehall de King Shadrock y envuelto por el hipnotismo visual de Emma Forgues. Dub a miles de años luz que llenará de frecuencias bajas la Edición 20.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Metaract
2024Metaract is an exploration of the duality between analog and digital. It reveals the artists' quest for meaning through their documentation of natural elements such as textures, colors and sounds in the composition of the work.
Fulldome film · Fulldome film
For the 25th edition of MUTEK Montréal, Fred Everything unveils an exclusive live set, exploring Downtempo, Broken Beat, and Deep House with tracks from his new album. Inspired by prestigious collaborations, his set promises an immersive experience, marked by a rich sonic approach and innovative production.
Live · Live · World Premiere
G L O W Z I C O M B O melds Afrodescendant rhythms with electronic music, transcending genre boundaries to explore sonic freedom. Their performance, "To The Mirrors of Y(our) Desires: The Introduction", crafts an auditory journey through uncharted territories, guided by diverse instruments and ancestral echoes.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Vidéochose
2024Jacques transforms the everyday into a dazzling symphony for his new live performance at MUTEK Montréal. Using clips from movies, documentaries, and sounds captured over time, he creates a soundscape where rockets, barking, and baby cries turn into instruments. His unique approach blends audiovisual performance and live interaction, offering an experience where sound and image merge to captivate and get the audience dancing.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North American Premiere
Lignes de fuite
2024Lignes de Fuite is a generative film for 360° environments, brought to life by Jules Roze and Pablo Geeraert . This audiovisual performance unfolds as a dynamic generative entity, meticulously crafted through ever-changing structures. The result is a contemplative interaction of architectural forms, seamlessly oscillating between solid permanence and ethereal transience. Lignes de Fuite blurs boundaries between reality and abstraction, with the very essence of form and sound converging in an immersive symphony within the captivating dome space.
Film · Film
Sonic Chaser
2024Korea Town Acid unleashes her avant-garde electronic explorations in Sonic Chaser . Her performance weaves dubby beats, syncopated rhythms, and industrial textures into a compelling narrative, highlighted by mesmerizing live finger drumming. Her innovative use of analog and digital tools crafts unpredictable soundscapes that bridge classical influences with futuristic sounds.
Live · Canadian Premiere · Live
Liliane Chlela , a producer, DJ, and performer born in Beirut, presents the latest live performance from her latest album. In Anatomy of A Jerk , she explores improvisation and sound manipulation, blending frenetic synth patterns with poignant melodic interludes.
Live · Live · North American Premiere
Rite of Passage
2024As part of MUTEK MX Edition 20 they present the live version of their album Rite of Pasage (2023), a hypnotic audiovisual experience developed during a residency at the Rewire festival.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Martin Messier 's 1 drop 1000 years is an immersive audiovisual performance, portraying the critical yet fragile role of the thermohaline circulation system. Using advanced technology, Messier captures the essence of global currents, emphasizing their delicate balance and the urgent human impact on climate regulation. Directing, performance, light, and music: Martin Messier Curation: Jaehoon Bang Production : 14 lieux, INSCAPE, MUTEK Creation and technical coordination assistant: Lilian Guiran External advisors: Nathanaël Lécaudé (Electronic), Joseph Battesti (Engineering)
Live A/V · Live A/V
ARIMA
2024Mateo Murphy & Lydia Yakonowsky
ARIMA is an immersive fulldome audiovisual performance by Mateo Murphy and Lydia Yakonowsky . In real-time, they create spatialized soundscapes and visuals that explore the cyclical relationship between obsolete economic models and emerging paradigms. Murphy’s electronic music and Yakonowsky’s dynamic visuals synchronize to form a captivating, evolving experience.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
Terra Flecta
2024Terra Flecta by mesocosm trio, Emma Forgues , Philippe Vandal , and Joël Lavoie , stages a journey into speculative extraterrestrial biomes. Crafted during their Satosphère residency, the work melds photogrammetric visuals and soundscapes derived from Québec's contaminated locales with cinematic music, exploring futuristic possibilities and environmental narratives.
Live A/V · Live A/V
Invisible General by Meuko! Meuko! and NONEYE dives into the digital ether, exploring themes of spiritual isolation and resistance through noise and percussion. Inspired by a ghost-worshiping temple in Taipei, this performance blends traditional beliefs with contemporary data-driven artistry, probing the essence of lost souls in a technologically dominated world.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North American Premiere
Twin Color
2024Twin Color is a virtual live cinema show by music producer Murcof and visual artist Simon Geilfus . This experience blends Murcof’s synth-heavy, nostalgic soundscapes with Geilfus’ real-time, procedurally generated visuals, depicting an eerie forest and its mysterious happenings. A symbiotic performance influenced by classic sci-fi soundtracks.
Live · Live
Second Self
2024Second Self , led by Myriam Bleau and Nien Tzu Weng , reinvents audiovisual performance through portable, interactive LED screens. Inspired by Sherry Turkle's concept, the duo explores the interface as a bodily extension, delivering a show where each gesture alters sounds and visuals, creating an innovative stage dialogue between technology and human expression. Music, video, concept, performance: Myriam Bleau Concept, performance: Nien Tzu Weng Custom electronics, fabrication: Max Damecour Costumes: Marie-Audrey Jacques Fabrication: Mark Lowe
Live A/V · Live A/V · North American Premiere
REBIRTH
2024N3ZHA delves deep into her cultural roots through immersive soundscapes that celebrate loyalty, sacrifice, and the triumph of spirit. This performance is not just a tribute to heritage but a bold redefinition of electronic music, inviting listeners from all backgrounds to connect with a rich tapestry of sounds that resonate with universal themes of courage and rebirth.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Tree of Life
2024Experience the profound interconnectedness of life with Tree of Life , a fulldome work by Nora Gibson . This performance merges data from human and natural sources to generate stunning visuals and sound. Using electrodermal activity from dancers, scans, and mathematical formulas, it creates a sensory journey celebrating the deep connection between all beings.
Film · Film
Orchestroll 's performance draws from their Mini-LP Hyperwide Lustre and recent EMS Stockholm residency. Their dissonant ritual melds anachronistic melodies with digital surrealism, crafting a soundscape that balances compositional dissolution with slambient textures. Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Asaël Richard-Robitaille 's untamed essence and precise artificiality create a uniquely immersive auditory experience.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World premiere
Evolving Echoes
2024Piu presents Echoes , a performance that marries Indian classical vocals with expansive electronic landscapes. Through her live set, accompanied by dynamic visuals, she explores the evolving nuances of a single theme, transforming it across varied musical territories from contemplative atmospheres to rhythmic techno pulses. Her approach involves a fusion of organic and synthetic sounds, drawing on minimalist influences and modern electronic vibes, that invites deep emotional engagement.
Live · Live · World Premiere
Tempus
2024Pole will present Tempus , an exploration into the temporal depths of electronic sound. Pole's live performance will encapsulate the essence of memory and time, showcased through a distinct blend of ambient, dub, and experimental jazz. His approach — a refined balance of dense atmospherics and precise dub techniques — highlights a unique space where sound history and futuristic explorations converge.
Live · Live · North American Premiere
This But More
2024Explore the introspective soundscapes of Priori ’s latest album, This But More , paired with Jek ’s mesmerizing visuals. This collaboration, first revealed at Dekmantel Melbourne, blends acoustic and electronic elements for a boundary-pushing auditory and visual experience. Don’t miss this unique synthesis of digital art and sound.
Live A/V · Live A/V · World Premiere
F E M I N A
2024F E M I N A is an audiovisual exploration by Riccardo Giovinetto , intertwining electronic compositions with polyphonic madrigals and Renaissance imagery. This performance deconstructs and redefines grace, blending manipulated vocal samples with sculptured electronic sounds. Witness an AI's journey through the concept of grace, creating a unique, immersive visual and sonic experience.
Live A/V · Live A/V · North American premiere
Roman Flügel’s MUTEK performance promises an exploration of electronic landscapes, crafted through a deep dive into his diverse sonic palette. Flügel's work, driven by a curiosity for unexpected sound combinations and a profound understanding of dance music's dynamics, offers an immersive experience that highlights his distinct approach to DJing and live sets.
Live · Live
Rétrocausalité
2024Sara Magnan presents Rétrocausalité , a culmination of seven years of life and sound archives from her time in Mexico. This decontextualized sound matter blends current, experimental, immersive, and concrete music with drone, psychedelic folklore, pop, and electro elements. For the first time, Magnan will sing live, adding a poetic and intimate dimension.
Performance · Performance
Seulement crafts a unique live A/V performance, Bricolage Architecture . This project delves into a tactile dialogue between stop-motion animation and live modular synthesis, merging handcrafted cardboard cutouts with electroacoustic manipulation of voice and flute loops. His work exposes human vulnerability within technological perfection, celebrating bodily imperfections in an era dominated by artificial intelligence.
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Fractal Fantasy: Surround immerses audiences in Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones ' unique sound and visual world. Developed at Satosphère, their first spatial audiovisual exploration employs AI and motion-capture to create a realm of liquid metal creatures and sci-fi erotic grotesque visuals. The performance blends genres like footwork and baile funk, showcasing their innovative use of technology to expand the sensory experience of music.
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ASBU
2024ASBU crafts a symbolic audiovisual narrative on the genesis of SYNSPECIES , exploring speculative fiction, superstitions, and nature's harsh realities. Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc blend algorithmic abstract music and creative coding, creating a cosmogonic myth that transcends time. Experience the sublime birth of a unique universe. Elias Merino: Music Tadej Droljc: Visuals
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Reverie
2024Tati au Miel unveils Reverie , a sonic and visual odyssey that distills their eclectic ethos—merging experimental, ambient, and industrial sounds. Crafted during their residency at World Creation Studio, this performance features live instrumentation and immersive 360-degree visuals, encapsulating Tati’s unique narrative and multidisciplinary approach to exploring identity and abstract storytelling.
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With Numinous Machines , the Sonya Stefan and Stephanie Castonguay duo named Technologies of Consciousness presents an audiovisual odyssey into near-death's shadowy boundary, inspired by sacred Yantras and the natural-technological nexus. This performance harnesses macroscopy and modified turntables, merging sound with image through graphical notation driven by decomposition's laws. Their approach to turntablism highlights the physical touch and material transformation in sound reproduction, offering a tangible exploration of auditory art.
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Palindrome Codex
2024Palindrome Codex 回文法典 by Cao Yuxi and Lau Hiu Kong redefines temporal perception through a powerful audiovisual experience. Inspired by the ancient Sator Square, the installation blends retro-futuristic visuals and resonant compositions, leveraging AI to explore the continuum where time loops and inverts. This collaboration not only showcases their mastery of digital and sound art but also invites audiences to a meditative reflection on time's infinite cycle.
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Pitch Blender
2024Zoë Mc Pherson & Alessandra Leone
Pitch Blender showcases Zoë Mc Pherson 's adeptness in crafting cybernetic dancefloor experiments that seamlessly traverse between the rave scene and art installations. The live interpretation of the album, augmented by the imagery of Alessandra Leone , embodies a synthesis of auditory and visual stimuli designed to engage and challenge the audience.
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The event continues with CLAUSTRO, who present Territorios Ilusorios I, an audiovisual and scenographic piece that navigates through a series of ephemeral atmospheres. Through a combination of laser, sound and mirrors, the duo creates sculptures and landscapes out of light which slowly reveal their volumes and figures, luminous scenes that oscillate between tension and contemplation.
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As a prelude to Autechre's performance at MUTEK MX 21, Leslie will present Animistic Resonance, an original live performance inspired by his upcoming release on the Umor Rex label.
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Borde
2025Borde, his first collaboration, was developed over the summer as one of the projects commissioned by MUTEK Mexico this year and will have its world premiere on October 10.
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Struere
2025Struere is a relational structure formed through a performative act of stacking, composing, and organizing the basic geometric forms of point, line, and plane. Points, lines, and planes are conceptual units for perceiving space and form; although they do not possess physical substance, within virtual space they are materialized through computation and revealed as operational realities of point, line, and plane—vertex, edge, and face. Struere arranges, combines, and connects these elements, generating flows and balancing relationships to form structures and produce spatial events. As architecture in the physical world forms structure and composes space, in digital space the relationships among points, lines, and planes form structure and compose space. While physical architecture, grounded in the laws of matter, entails hierarchies among structural elements, in the digital environment points, lines, and planes are treated as equal computational entities, dissolving hierarchy within structure and space. As the coordinates of these simultaneously computed elements continuously shift, the structure of Struere expands into a variable state of structural–spatial configuration. The structure of Struere appears on the screen of an actual architectural surface, creating a point of intersection where the architectural structure that forms physical space and the digital structure–space cross. Through their juxtaposition, the difference in order between physical and digital structures is revealed, exploring new structural sensibilities generated in digital space.
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Sentient Ocean
2025Sentient Ocean is an audiovisual live performance which was inspired by the intelligent ocean on the planet Solaris described in the novel by Stanisław Lem of the same title. The essence of the project is to create a fluid, ever-changing audiovisual experience that allows the audience to immerse themselves in sound and image. Both audio and video are generated in real time, existing between what is natural and what is synthesized. Loosely referring to Lem's work, the project touches upon topics such as emergence, systems theory, identity and the relationship between machine and nature.
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SCREEN—SPACE: Surface is an immersive video work by Viennese audiovisual artist MONOCOLOR. Originally conceived as a site-specific installation, the piece explores the tension between the digital and the analogue. Entirely generated through algorithmic processes, it examines the materiality of light and the physical presence of the screen as an object. Subtle transformations in texture, rhythm, luminosity and sound produce a hypnotic field of movement that oscillates between surface and depth. The work invites viewers to reflect on how the immaterial language of the digital can evoke sensations of texture and space.
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Noémi Büchi, a composer and sound artist based in Zurich, makes the Asian premiere of her immersive AV show Does It Still Matter.
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SOLSTICE
2025They presents the performance work SOLSTICE this time. In the continuity of their previous performance ECLIPSE, SOLSTICE is about contrasted minimal black and white visuals inspired by the duality between darkness and brightness. Picture: Mitsuru Wakabayashi
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Flora & Fauna
2025In the shadows, creatures stir just beyond the light, Their silhouettes morphing, indiscernible forms that seem to vanish as they are noticed. They are not quite seen, but their presence is felt, as the air itself shifts with their quiet movement. They are the inhabitants of the deep forest. *Audio :Dominique James Dominique James is a UK based composer combining real instruments with electronic sounds. His work blends organic and synthetic elements to create textural and emotional pieces.
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Daily Scape
2025Daily Scape is a work born from the combination of the series Daily Narratives and Collectible Scape. While Daily Narratives focuses on the theme of “observations and conversations in daily life,” Collectible Scape explores the “documentation and preservation of vanishing landscapes.” By intersecting these two perspectives, the work attempts to visualize the flow of time hidden in everyday life, layers of memory, and the cycle of creation and disappearance. In Daily Narratives, fragments of daily life are captured on a smartphone, then re-generated using ComfyUI (an AI tool for node-based manipulation of Stable Diffusion), and further transformed into generative animations through TouchDesigner (a node-based visual coding software). The landscapes reshaped by AI are both reflections of my own life and forms that merge into someone else’s memories. This work, which emerged through dialogue with ChatGPT, presents a new kind of conversation between humans and AI, between the individual and others. Meanwhile, Collectible Scape is a series that digitally reconstructs everyday landscapes and artifacts that are disappearing. Playgrounds, wells, public telephones, incinerators, and roadside flowers—objects often overlooked—are preserved as data and given new life through TouchDesigner. Inspired by the Zen concept of hika-rakuyo (falling petals and leaves), the series depicts how both living and inanimate things inevitably undergo change and disappearance. Daily Scape is an exploration of “another landscape” that emerges between observation, documentation, and regeneration in a constantly changing everyday life. It embodies the potential of art as a digital recording device that re-generates memory, connecting past, present, and future.
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AI Flowers
2025AI Flowers explores vibrant colors and fluid movements inspired by nature, using AI-generated imagery and motion simulation. By hand-picking pictures of flowers, a custom dataset was created for a machine-learning model. As a result, it generates surreal flowers and repurposes them with fluid particles, creating a generative sculpture. The work depicts the beauty of nature generated by a set of algorithms, representing our connection to the natural world in the age of artificial intelligence.
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+1+1+1+
2026“+1+1+1+” is a dance installation by Daito Manabe and ELEVENPLAY, led by MIKIKO. Exploring the themes of time and structure, the work layers classical musical structures and repetitive contemporary rhythms with dancers’ bodies, moving images, light, and shifting frames. Through a stage space that repeatedly moves between synchronization and displacement, the work reconfigures the boundaries between body and technology, and between music and dance. The work had its world premiere in 2024 as part of the opening program for the Middle Hall at Toyama Aubade Hall, followed by performances in Hong Kong (2024) and Shanghai (2025). The MUTEK.JP 2026 presentation marks the work’s Tokyo premiere. Credits: Artistic Direction / Music / Visual Daito Manabe Artistic Direction / Choreography MIKIKO (ELEVENPLAY) Cast KAORI / SAYA / KAi MiWA / NANAKO (ELEVENPLAY) Visual Ayumu Nagamatsu Yuta Okuyama Masahiro Kadokawa (Cuddys Pic) Shuhei Maeta (Cuddys Pic) Yuuki Fujinaga (Cuddys Pic) Futa Kera (Abstract Engine) Music Co-Produced by Hopebox / Kyoko Koyama Strings Sonoko Muraoka Strings 1st Violin: Yuri Kamei 2nd Violin: Ayaka Jomoto Viola: Reiichi Tateizumi Cello: Sonoko Muraoka Strings Recording Shintaro Kamijo (Abstract Engine) Mouri Artworks Studio Stage Manager Yoshiko Haraguchi (Moribuden) Set Design Saki Miyamoto (Mottibox) Lighting Design Momoko Nishimoto (Abstract Engine) Stage Props Kyouhei Mouri (Abstract Engine) Motoi Ishibashi (Abstract Engine) Toshitaka Mochizuki (Abstract Engine) Tomoaki Yanagisawa Assistant Choreographer / Assistant Director NON (ELEVENPLAY) Stage Team Jun Maeda Eisuke Otsu Technical Operation Kosaku Namikawa (7ild3) 4D Views & Motion Capture Recording Hajime Kotani Tadayuki Suzuki Yoshitaka Homma Ren Sakamoto Kazumasa Yasuda Ryuki Hiraga Koyuki Yamazaki (Crescent) Videographer Muryo Homma (Abstract Engine) Costume Cooperation FUMIE=TANAKA Project Management Yoko Shiraiwa / NON (ELEVENPLAY) Naoki Ishizuka (Abstract Engine) Producer Takao Inoue (Abstract Engine)
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A Guy Called Gerald presents a new telling of his 1995 album Black Secret Technology , a landmark record whose avant-garde sound helped shape the foundations of jungle music. Through his improvisational “Live in Session” approach, he reconfigures its sci-fi clangs, punchy breakbeat samples, and haunting vocalisations in real time, conjuring a new futuristic vision.
Live · Live · North American premiere
Before the world dreamed of its own creation, how is a world constructed? Novelist Yi-Chin LO transforms into a storyteller, reading tales of the Other and of life. Collage artist Raintree 1969 reconstructs fragmented images into new visual narratives, and Dimension Plus employs AI to translate text, voice, and light in real time. Through the interweaving of multiple media—language, sound, image, and AI—the world emerges as a multidimensional intersection shaped by prompts.
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Gentle Hum
2026Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach’s Gentle Hum drifts through suspended time, intricately braiding together the sounds of test equipment, analogue synthesizers, piano accompaniment, and processed vocals into a sprawling, melancholic opus. For MUTEK, the duo brings the album to life at the Maison Symphonique, patiently excavating texture and tone with meticulous care.
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His latest project falls under the pseudonym, Film Scores for No One, which is inspired by the instrumental material he has produced over the last five years. Mainly based on modular synthesizers, these original creations will be particularly appreciated live, oscillating between neo-classical dazzle and electronic emotion.
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Temporary
2026Light design by Andrea Familari Grand River, returns to Editions Mego with Temporary—her most expansive and focused album to date. Rooted in themes of impermanence, grief and loss, the record explores the interplay between resonant guitar and innovative electronics. Across eight melodic and emotionally charged soundscapes, Portioli reflects on mortality, memory and the fleeting nature of existence. From pulsating synths and modular electronics to turbulent guitars, wavering harp and acoustic refrains, Temporary unfolds as an immersive journey through shifting emotional landscapes. Its track titles form fragments of a poetic meditation on loving, losing, remembering and fading. “To live is to experience the present while already feeling the trace of its disappearancesomething both painful and blissful.” Aimée Portioli, Grand River
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Diffusion
2026Arbor and Tzu Ni deconstruct the digital image in Diffusion , exploring the pixel as both source of light and unit of meaning. Beginning where the image ends, they treat darkness as encoded data and listening as a way of knowing, staging a real-time feedback system between light, sound, image, and space. Through sonic diffusion, resonance, and spatial transmission, the work approaches sound not as accompaniment to the image, but as an unstable atmospheric force that continuously reshapes perception. TW: This performance uses flashing and flickering patterns, high-frequency sounds, and rapid changes in light and sound intensity.
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With a sampler and synthesizer at hand, Iranian experimental musician ArtSaves unfurls a slow-forming collage of fragmented dance rhythms and dissolving ambient textures. Instability, timing drift, and error are embraced as generative forces here, used to navigate concepts of identity, authenticity, and the shifting notion of home.
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SONORITY
2026Johanna Elina Sulkunen & Tapani Toivanen
An encounter between the embodied human voice, live electronics, and the visualisation of the digital afterimage of the natural world. Breath, vibration, resonance, and spoken language merge with live electronics. The voice becomes electric, creating immersive and intimate musical moments that awaken the image and set the digital landscape into motion. Sulkunen explores perception, ecology, and belonging through an expanded vocal practice. Volumetric recordings gathered across scales from the microscopic to the monumental, form a shifting visual terrain. A transformative second world unfolds, where breath, resonance, and voice move freely, traversing auditive and spatial scales from particle to body to society.
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K/Hi 3D/AV Live
2026Masayuki Azegami & Seiichi Sega
Launched in 2022, K/Hi carries the character of science art, attempting to visualize the laws and phenomena latent in the natural world, and works to bring phenomena themselves into being through the precise synchronization of sound and image. The project has explored the relationship between space and perception through a range of devices, including deformable displays and lasers. This iteration presents an audiovisual performance built around stereoscopic vision. A minimal yet precisely constructed three-dimensional visual structure, paired with sharply defined sound, extends the depth of the space, offering a perceptual experience of observing phenomenon itself.
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INNERSTAR-01
2026Cheng Daoyuan and Huang Wei present INNERSTAR-01 , the first work in their audio-visual series based on the relationship between the universe and consciousness. Drawing on the interactions between interstellar matter and light, the immersive dome performance envelops viewers in a dazzling, illusive atmosphere that encourages them to enter the deepest space in their minds. TW: This performance uses intense sound and visuals.
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Feeling Is Structure is an exploration of the hidden dialogue between physical form and human emotion. Across ten spatial audio-visual works, Max Cooper investigates how structure in sound, architecture, biology and art quietly shapes the way we feel. At its core, the album rests on a single conviction: that our inner emotional lives are inseparable from the environments we inhabit. Conceived alongside his live show, the project grew from Cooper's fascination with form as a vessel for feeling: "I'm fascinated by architects who can imbue brutalist buildings with humanity, or artists who can paint a block of colour representing their soul. We have this remarkable capacity to spill ourselves into the world through form. When I began working on this show, that connection between large-scale physical structures and feeling took over, and this album emerged from that process." Musically, Feeling Is Structure draws on the most intricate and deliberate side of Cooper's craft. Eschewing improvisation, the record is built from carefully designed systems and generative processes: evolving sonic architectures that are precise at the micro level, yet profoundly emotive in their impact. The result is music that mirrors its own thesis, treating structure not as constraint but as the very shape of feeling.
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Música Aperta
2026Música Aperta is an electroacoustic piece and audiovisual immersive performance that explores the perception of time through sound. Combining string drones, bowls, and organ, it creates a space of stillness and contemplation, resisting the fast pace of contemporary life. The project explores the concept of unfinished music, offering an interactive online version where listeners can mix tracks and create their own renditions through a reactive audiovisual interface. In its audiovisual format, "Música Aperta" reinterprets visual works from the early 20th century, drawing inspiration from the abstraction found in the early films of German artist Oskar Fischinger (1927) — light conceived as sound. Fischinger was one of the pioneers of the concept of 'visual music': non-figurative geometric forms synchronised with musical structures, painting that becomes movement. This abstraction dialogues with archive material from early microscopic films by British naturalist and filmmaker Percy Smith (1900), creating a poetic and minimalist world of light and organic forms that slowly transform. The work invites the audience to immerse themselves in a contemplative audiovisual experience.
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Cleo Leigh presents Romance by Design , a hypnotic live techno set shaped by modular synthesis and hardware improvisation. Inspired by architect Mario Botta’s geometric constructions, she molds emotion into sound, exploring intimacy, form, and tension through a raw, evolving sonic matrix.
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(An)ecumene time
2026con secuencias + Milo Reinhardt
Hybrid musical structures and prehispanic instrumentation form the sonic core of con secuencias’ bass-driven club explorations. In the world premiere of (An)ecumene time , airy whistle pierces and hypnotic percussion converge with moody Latin rhythms and live electronic processing, accompanied by otherworldly visuals from Milo Reinhardt.
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H U M I
2026H U M I is an immersive audiovisual performance exploring the border as a mutable threshold rather than a line of separation — a porous field where territories merge into geographies in continual metamorphosis. A fractured horizon in motion erodes territorial rigidity, opening unstable zones where forms overlap and lose their identities. High-definition samples from remote regions of the Earth are processed through AI, blending deterministic trajectories with stochastic behavior. Landscapes are not represented but regenerated: arid surfaces liquefy, coastlines fracture and overlap, urban textures dissolve into pulsating matter — producing a continuous cartographic mutation, an imaginary geography suspended between memory and possibility. Fragments of non-existent dialects and synthetic idioms, built from phonetic residues and field recordings, are quantized and resynthesized until only a faint echo of their origin survives, transformed into pure sound. These sound objects intertwine with sculpted electronic textures, while a quadraphonic composition responds to the images in real time, enveloping the audience in a synesthetic experience. The work unfolds as a single continuous movement — from particulate constellations condensing into recognizable forms, through liquid metamorphoses and shifts, into a unified configuration. What emerges is a shared aesthetic territory where cultural and spatial differences dissolve into transitory harmony. In H U M I, borders and identities don't delimit — they open a space of relationship where geography is mutable and language is the echo of a place that never existed.
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AVB2BVA
2026Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez
AVB2BVA is an audiovisual back-to-back performance that reshapes the music and real-time visuals of Robert Lippok and Lucas Gutierrez. Since their first collaboration, Applied Autonomy in 2018, Lippok and Gutierrez have focused on the relationship between music and visual art. For this year's edition of MUTEK.JP, they elevate this approach by blurring the boundaries of authorship, expanding the B2B DJ format to an audiovisual level. Performing together in a single set, they alternate tracks while performing simultaneously, creating a dynamically charged atmosphere and an intense experience. Exploring the fluidity of time through shifting rhythms and evolving visual sequences, their performance evokes a sense of temporal disorientation, leaving space for improvisation and unpredictable changes. Through their collaborative practice, they merge their distinct artistic languages into a cohesive narrative, forging new pathways in contemporary art.
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nD
2026"nD" is a diptych audiovisual performance piece and the third iteration of "cm:av_c," a project developed over many years. In this work, the phenomena of sound and vision, the modes of abstraction and concreteness, and the qualities of meaningfulness and meaninglessness are embodied in a continuous fluctuation between duality and non-duality. The diptych is not arranged simply to present opposition or difference, but as a site where perception oscillates between separation and inseparability. By treating and fusing sound and image at an abstract level, the piece creates an intense audiovisual experience that stimulates sight and hearing simultaneously. This pure audiovisual expression, stripped of meaning, liberates the audience from the constraints of interpretation and guides them toward a more direct, sensory experience. The "cm:av_c" project has been a long-standing pursuit since the early stages of Kurokawa's career and strongly reflects his unique and iconic artistic language. The first version premiered in 2005 and has since been presented worldwide, including at Tate Modern (UK), Ars Electronica (AT), and MUTEK (CA). The second version, "syn_ [ cm:av_c 2 ]," was released in 2011 and performed in over 20 countries in the following years. "nD [ cm:av_c 3 ]" represents the latest evolution of the project.
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This work is an audiovisual performance exploring dance, breath, and the memory of the ever-changing body. As expressed in the Japanese concept of “banbutsu ruten” — the idea that all things are in constant flux — everything continues to transform over time. Emotions, memories, bodies, and the landscapes surrounding us continuously shift and reshape themselves. I am deeply drawn to the ambiguous boundary between what disappears and what remains, between what changes and what continues to live on within the body. In this work, the body is perceived as a temporary vessel for memory and emotion. Feelings and memories constantly transform, yet through breathing, feeling pain, and moving our bodies in response to sound, we continue to recognize ourselves as existing beings. Over time, wrinkles and sagging slowly appear on the skin, and the body that once continued breathing will eventually stop functioning and grow cold. Still, it is only through this unstable and ever-changing body that we are able to experience and perceive the world. The visual work draws from the physicality of plants that bloom, decay, and wither, as well as organic imagery that continuously mutates like liquid. Skin, flower petals, water surfaces, waves, and flickering light — these elements oscillate between beauty and unease, dissolving the boundaries between them. Within these images exists a primitive longing for a sensation resembling the memory of floating in amniotic fluid before birth. The work also incorporates fragmented footage recorded while moving across Europe, layering together landscapes of transforming cities, bodies, and memories. Through sound that traverses ambient, IDM, and techno, alongside fluid visual expressions and repetitive rhythms of dance and movement, the performance attempts to disrupt the audience’s perception of time and bodily awareness, creating moments where personal memory dissolves into collective ecstasy. This work is conceived as an audiovisual ritual for bodies that continue breathing within an endlessly changing world.
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ex_libris
2026Dave Huismans presents ex_libris , a terranean exploration through the winding paths of deep house, ambient, and leftfield grooves. Warped textures, dampened drums, and atmospheric pads shape his downtempo yet club-ready landscape, inviting movement to slowly awaken and time to breathe and bend.
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Desaceleradas
2026Using live accordion, tape decks, and modular synthesis, Mexican artist Debit reconstructs the degraded harmonies and magnetic glitches from her acclaimed album Desaceleradas . Pitched-down cumbia loops, mechanical hisses, and flickers of digitized VHS footage from Kolombia street dance culture form the haunting spectre of a cultural archive that refuses to disappear.
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Sweet
2026Through glitch-pop, deconstructed club, and ambient textures, the sounds of dustbunny ’s Sweet open a window into their world. Performing live, the Montréal-based artist transforms gesture into sound with harp instrumentation, vocals and motion-sensor technology, unlocking an emotional archive of love letters and ransom notes reflecting on devotion, power, and desire.
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BRUXISMO
2026El Ángel Exterminador & Anastasiia Vorobiova
In BRUXISMO , El Ángel Exterminador & Anastasiia Vorobiova unfold a visceral seven-part mystic-horror narrative exploring technological encroachment, surveillance, and structural violence inflicting wounds upon the spiritual and psychic realms and becoming incarnations through the body. Drawing from their Mexican and Ukrainian folk heritages, the piece blends real-time visuals, a hybrid use of digital and analogue techniques, electromagnetic coils and the live processing of both voice and an experimental instrument crafted from bones, teeth, metal and stone to conjure an intuitive vision of a future shaped by collective resistance and liberation. TW: This performance may contain graphic visuals and sound design simulating blood, gunshots, drones, and bones breaking, as well as the use of strobing and fog.
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Hypermobility
2026«Hypermobility» is an audiovisual performance that pairs its refined references to techno with volumetric laser projections. Hyperkinetic, synthesized patterns in constant movement and transformation are visualized thanks to a beam of light tracing sculpted planes of light onto the audience. «Hypermobility» here references both physical flexibility and the addictive, hypermobile quality of traveling: frequent trips, often over long distances, and their alarming environmental impact. An unmissable opportunity to enjoy the breadth of resources and ideas of an artist who's presented the work at some of the most renowned international festivals, including MUTEK, Prix Ars Electronica, ISEA, Sónar and Transmediale.
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Elsewhere in India ft. Murthovic & Thiruda
Set 150 years after India's independence, A Passage to India (2097) transforms the dome into a vibrant Indofuturist cosmos. Murthovic ’s electro-classical score blends modular synthesis with South Asian folk sound, while Thiruda ’s visuals fuse archival footage, game-engine cinematics, and generative art, rewriting imperial memory and pulling audiences through fractured time into the imagined ruins and renewals of 2097. TW: This performance uses strobes and loud sound.
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dreamachine
2026Estelle Schorpp & charline dally
Born from the collaboration between sound artist Estelle Schorpp and video artist charline dally , dreamachine simulates the drifting sensation of gazing out a train window. Built from archival footage recorded on DV cassettes aboard the Shinkansen and Hong Kong railways, the piece folds together fluid landscapes of analog video feedback, field recordings and shimmering drone textures modulated by algorithmic process, suspending audiences between motion and reverie. TW: This performance uses flashing visuals.
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Florence-Delphine Roux opens a new chapter with Tumulte de Kessler . Through sculptural radio antennas pointed toward Earth’s orbit, she composes with satellite signals, parasitic frequencies, and fragments of transmissions, revealing the sonic portrait of a sky in transformation, where natural constellations and orbital infrastructures blur and overlap.
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France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
France Jobin and Markus Heckmann ’s Lueurs Quantiques translates the abstract principles of anti-matter—collisions, annihilations, instabilities, and recompositions—into a multisensory experience that invites audiences to cross the thresholds between scientific wonder and embodied experience. Inside the dome, loss of orientation, propagation of energy, and the invisible dance of particles are experienced from within, as visual elements vibrate, fragment, and recombine in resonance with sound.
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In In the End, It’s All the Same Thing , Hermanos Riffo Gómez journey into deep time through the twisted roots of genetic ancestry, ancient microorganisms, and lifecycles. Hacked and modified 3D microscopy, long-duration time-lapse footage, and live samples manipulated in real time navigate branches of trees, empty houses, interior rooms, and the site where intimate personal recollection intertwines with nature and cosmic space.
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Honeydrip returns to MUTEK Festival for the world premiere of v i b r a t i o n , an audio-visual work that transforms her body into a living sound installation. Exploring a dense, ever-shifting sonic landscape inspired by dub, jungle, bass, and beyond, the Montréal mainstay sculpts internal resonance and external vibration in real time through physical movement. TW: This performance may use strobe lights.
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House of Love
2026Inhabited by the tender roars of a baritone saxophone, the intimacy of a soft voice, and the insistent resonance of electronic rhythms, Ida Toninato’s House of Love is a free-flowing ode to the dancefloor. Grounded in body, breath, and raw energy, she shapes a sonic material in constant transformation, where tension, density, and suspension gesture toward entrancement.
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Stargate
2026“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”. - Albert Einstein. The concept of Stargate is one of exotic exploration of the unknowns. By the way of a portal and ancient transport device called a Stargate, the audience is invited to experience distance Worlds, deep space phenomena and obscure interstellar elements. With immersive sound, video and lighting, a range is created between the Stargate and its passengers. Guided by the distinctive experimental soundtrack of Jeff Mills, he schedules 5 segments of adventurous tour. A Stargate is a cosmic wormhole, where time is bent to decrease enormous distance in order to travel through space almost instantaneously. Here on Earth and appearing as a large circular frame and used in many ancient civilizations, it is activated by ceremonial protocol, the interior becomes the passageway and bridge into different dimensions of Time and Space. Space science, science fiction and Techno music are resemblant - each about exploring the uncharted. Nourishingly, they all work towards a common objective to enhance wisdom and stellar consciousness.
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COCKPIT
2026Jenn Mong & Trevor Van de Velde
Pianist Jenn Mong and sound artist Trevor Van de Veld join forces in COCKPIT , an audiovisual performance exploring the link between instrument and machine. Joysticks, MIDI controllers, and flight simulation interfaces transform the piano into a high-stakes command center, where virtuosic piano passages, warped 90s elevator music, and glitch noise evoke the complexities of technological embodiment and mechanized warfare. TW: This performance uses intense lighting and sound.
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Jordan Gardner premieres an all new live set at this year’s MUTEK Festival. Crafted from samples and dubplates acquired during a chance encounter with a distant uncle who runs a Championship winning soundsystem, Iridescent Riddims unites regional variations of dub, bass, house, techno and electro into a shape-shifting blend of bouncing rhythms and shimmering synth textures.
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Dissemblance
2026JS Baillat & Mateo Murphy premiere Dissemblance , an immersive audiovisual performance shaped by opposing forces. Tension brushes with stillness, harmony drifts into dissonance, and analog textures merge with digital forms within a grainy black-and-white panorama of desert expanses, shifting sand, weathered rock, and abstract geometries.
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Zero Gravity
2026In a hybrid spatial audio performance of Zero Gravity , Korea Town Acid & Ajeebsir invite audiences into a suspended, dreamlike world of ambient, glitch, and broken-beat sounds and kaleidoscopic visuals. Moving beyond stereo, Korea Town Acid’s compositions extend the soundscape across and above the audience, shaping an immersive, liminal space mirrored by visual artist Ajeebsir’s kinetic abstract forms, digital distortions, and fluid textures.
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Inspired by writings on biophony, Marc-Antoine Barbier ’s Musée des espèces conjures up a rich world of organic soundscapes and imaginary ecosystems. Electronic music, analog textures, and saxophone meet in his real time recreation, provoking an immersive, non-linear listening experience balanced between spontaneous improvisation and the record’s existing sound world.
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In What Remains After Desire, sound artist Marie Delprat explores what lingers after intensity fades. Layered voices, minimal rhythmic structures, and Baroque-ornamented electronic textures shape an environment in constant flux between fatigue, intimacy, and exposure, dappled with fragments from writers Ariana Reines, Éric Fiat, and Kae Tempest. TW: This performance may use smoke and strobe lights.
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In the North American premiere of theukhasmorefoodbanksthanbranchesofmcdonalds.com, Matthew Herbert comments on the UK’s surge from 35 food banks in 2010 to over 2,800 today. Using the sounds of the most requested items—tin cans of meat and fish, toiletries, pasta, nappies—he crafts energizing, incisive dancefloor music that demands attention.
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Drum Solo
2026Matthew Herbert & Julian Sartorius
Two idiosyncratic improvisers meet in Drum Solo, an introspective dialogue between Swiss drummer Julian Sartorius and British experimental producer Matthew Herbert. Intricate, multilayered rhythms crafted on Sartorius’ collection of drums, percussion instruments, and augmented objects become the raw material for Herbert’s real-time electronic processing, as the pair craft a dense sonic atmosphere through their uniquely imaginative approaches.
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Resonance
2026mesocosm ’s Resonance explores the interplay between memory, space, and digital transformation. Incorporating 3D scans of various locations across Québec, it presents a dreamlike, ever-shifting landscape where reality and imagination blur. Through surreal environments—abandoned urban structures, snow-covered relics, and ethereal floating entities—the piece immerses viewers in a poetic reflection on decay, preservation, and the passage of time. TW: This performance may contain intense visual and auditory sequences, including strobe effects.
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FOOL
2026In the world premiere of FOOL , Monsieurmadam navigates the emotional storm that follows transformation. Experimenting live with electronics, vocal gestures, and immersive sound design, they draw the audience into a heightened state of perception where deconstructed club rhythms, trance-inducing chants, and layered textures emerge without fixed resolution.
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UMWELT
2026Using real-time generative technologies and expanded cinema techniques, MOORE + SALAS construct an immersive dome environment inspired by insect ecologies. Featuring music from Arthur Desmarteaux , the piece follows the concept of “umwelt,” inviting audiences to explore the subtle shifts and micro-adjustments that make up each species’ perception.
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In Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz, Nelly-Eve Rajotte combines moving image, generative sound, and biosensitive devices, transforming the dome into a boreal landscape where spectator and environment dissolve into one. With a modular synthesizer connected to a living tree, she simulates the organic sounds of the forest, opening space for contemplation on new forms of non-human perception of the living world. VFX Artist / Software Developer: Codrin-Mihail Tablan Negrei Volumetric Cinematography / Dome Integration: Mathieu DeBlois
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Embers in Blue
2026NGL Flounce premieres Embers in Blue , a heart-scorching dancefloor journey through deconstructed club rhythms, UK electronic, and traditional Pan-African influence. Anchored in the concept of “club cry,” violins, layered vocals, dreamy synths and hypnotic vocal loops trace the emotional arc from inward-looking meditation all the way to peak-hour collective release.
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Exuvie
2026In Exuvie , Noémi Büchi meditates on transformation and corporeal memory, unraveling the fragile boundary between the real and the imagined. Symphonic, fluttering, and eerily dissonant, her electroacoustic compositions lace together recollected fragments of video game, anime, and hip hop influences, oscillating against depictions of the body as a living archive where memory, perception, and space ceaselessly contort. TW: This performance uses strobe lights.
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Through L’Harmonie De Notre Absence , Paul Vivien imagines terrestrial landscapes after the end of human activity. Drawing on scientific and climatological data and hacked technology, he takes audiences on a video tour of these possible futures through rotating dioramas, offering a double reading between the screen and the stage. TW: This performance uses strobe lights, smoke, and intense sound.
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Fixate
2026In the uneasy space between vulnerability and control, pliq ’s Fixate navigates the cognitive slide from fascination to obsession. A projected eye entangled in a feedback loop of sound, gesture, and image becomes an investigative site; a tightrope walk where the gaze risks corroding into something objectifying and dominating. TW: This performance uses intense sound and strobe lighting.
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Distinctly warm and deeply rhythm-rooted, Poirier ’s genre-crossing sound has marked Montréal for nearly three decades. This summer, he returns to the album that started it all, bringing the sparse ambience and laid-back grooves of 2001’s Il n'y a pas de Sud… to the MUTEK dancefloor for its first live interpretation.
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Sphaîra
2026In the audio-visual interpretation of Sphaîra , Sara Persico and Mika Oki invite audiences into an ambient universe where the boundaries between external stimuli and internal perception blur. Inspired by the vaporous acoustic qualities of the Experimental Theatre dome in Tripoli, the performance folds fractal imagery, breathy drones, and abstract stroboscopic effects into a hazy, mesmerizing, and profoundly introspective dance. TW: This performance uses smoke and strobe lights.
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dreamstate
2026shn shn ventures into the depths of the unconscious in dreamstate , exploring how what lies below the surface quietly shapes our lives. The Toronto-based artist guides listeners on an illusory passage through ambient electronic pop, where fragments of lived experience ripple and dissolve into layered vocals, looping textures, and meditative rhythms.
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Reciprocity
2026What sound would a laser make if it could speak? In Reciprocity , Super Galaxy Meow Meow flip the traditional audio-drives-visuals script, creating an interface between laser-generated sound and image. Light becomes an instrument for listening; sound influences light in response, and audience and artist are immersed in an unrepeatable, real-time dialogue where neither medium strictly illustrates the other. TW: This performance uses smoke, flashing lights, lasers, and intense lighting.
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Tristan Perich & James McVinnie
Performing Infinity Gradient , Tristan Perich and James McVinnie locate the shared pulse of millenia-old instrumentation and early electronic memory. Drone-like hums from a traditional pipe organ dissolve into the glittering 1-bit symphony of 100 custom-built speakers, fluttering with the intemporal familiarity of binary waveform and the kaleidoscopic warmth of an epoch-defining instrument.
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FOUL TASTE
2026“Maximum Fun” is the name of the game during WAWA ’s bass-heavy performance of FOUL TASTE . Raw breaks, distorted synths and soulful vocals collide live through builds that climb until they detonate in a set that’s hard-hitting, unpolished and built to be felt in your chest.
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Wayfarer.dome
2026Wayfarer, by Weidi Zhang and Weilu Ge, follows the journeys of a generative being inspired by ancient Chinese cosmology. Using AI to reinterpret ancient mythological forms, the film reflects on the ways we encounter the unknown, imagining new forms of coexistence with intelligent systems and allowing new speculative beings to emerge from collective memory.
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Infisal
2026In Infisal, Palestinian-Canadian artist Abulzooz narrates the fragmentation and regeneration of collective memory within the Palestinian diaspora. Field recordings, interviews, and snippets of folk melody unravel and reassemble in real time without resolve, cycling through repetition, collapse, renewal, and the persistent mutations and reinventions of culture in the face of barriers.
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