Richie Cyngler is an experimental electronic artist fascinated by collaborative play, experimental process, learning and the creative potential of new technologies. He works predominantly with open source software, hardware, circuitry and sensors to make audio-visual interactive performance and installations which engage viewers/ participants in aesthetic play with the works and each other. Richie is also an educator and community leader in art, design and technology.
Contributors 2016
Musician born in Ruzomberok, living in Bratislava. He is drummer and bass guitar player coming from band švepes. Now he play in various bands and projects including Sado-Baso, Ham&Drinks, Hallogenerator or Trucki.
Combining his backgrounds in filmmaking and programming the last works of Ruben van de Ven (NL) revolve around software that derives emotional parameters from facial expressions. He examines this intersection of highly cognitive practices and ambiguous experiences and interrogates the discursive apparatus that is being erected. Currently he is finalising his master of Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam on this topic.
Sabina Hyoju Ahn is an artist who works with various media, sound and natural materials. She has broadened her artistic spectrum in New York, Seoul, London and The Hague. Sabina is a graduate of MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University in London and Mmus in ArtScience at Royal Conservatoire & Royal Academy of Art. Her research involves finding hidden rules and patterns in natural elements and translating it into different shapes of perceptual experiences.
Shu Lea Cheang (born 1954, Taiwan) is a multimedia artist who works in the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film production.
Over the past decade, she has emerged as a prominent figure in new media art. Cheang is one of the leading multimedia artists dealing with multidisciplinary studies. Her work is unique in allowing viewer interaction. She is most noted for her individual approach in the realm of art and technology, creatively intermingling social issues with artistic methods.[1]
Simon Christoph Krenn was born in Feldkirch (AT) in 1986. He studied Biology and Architecture at the University of Innsbruck and is currently enrolled in the Bachelor's degree programme 'Timebased and Interactive Media' at the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz. Working at the intersection of experimental sound, video and hybrid media, he explores the barriers between digital representation and natural phenomena in conceptual installations. His work focuses on the metabolic-entropic consumption of information that occurs in the process of disappearance and dissociation.
Stefan Tiefengraber lives and works in Linz, Austria. His work ranges from kinetic sound installations and interactive installations to audio-video noise performances. Tiefengraber experiments with the modification of devices, which are originally manufactured for different purposes. Combined with the perception of the audience, this experimental attempt of exploring old and new materials leads him to new and unpredictable results.
Taro is a long term artist in residency at Station Messschiff Eleonore in Linz. He is at ease with working, observing, researching, experimenting and playing [with] the fringes of science, art, politics, life, realities.
Tatiana Bazzichelli is artistic director of the Disruption Network Lab, an ongoing platform of conference events on art, hacktivism and disruption at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin (www.disruptionlab.org). Former programme curator at transmediale festival in Berlin from 2011 to 2014, she initiated and developed the year-round ‘reSource transmedial culture’ project.