TinTin Patrone is a German-Filipino composer, musician, actress, film and music producer as well as painter, performance artist and author. Patrone founded the group Krachkisten Orchestra in 2009, the International MusicMotorcycleClub in 2012, and runs various musical and artistic individual projects in parallel. The connections between music, art, sound and experimental gesture is the general field TinTin Patrone is interested in. One focus of her creations lies on the visual elements of music, the tension between conceptual ideas and physical existence.
Contributors 2018
Us(c)hi Reiter studied graphic and design at the Kunstuniverstät Linz. As artist and project developer with a special interesst in net.activism and audio-visual communication, she has been collaborating with different groups and artists since 1998. From 2005 till 2017 Reiter run the non-profit cultural backbone organisation servus.at/Kunst & Kultur im Netz.
She continues to research Free/Libre/Open Source Software in the frame of cultural production and art as well as work on conceptual and performative setups.
Throughout their practice Varvara & Mar have been researching and reflecting on the surveillance and dataveillance age, where each like, move, click, search, message, export, import, forward, send, purchase, location, and even more is monitored and used for various purposes. The surveillance has gone further than a camera gaze; it is much more complicated and diverse. Physical surveillance has been transformed into the data tracking. The artists explore the politics of surveillance capitalism in their work.
Best described as a ‘hybrid agent’ or ‘Jill-of-all-trades’
With educations and working experiences in: fine art, new media, data-driven programming, landscape architecture, electoral campaigns and activists campaigns. She is also the co-founder of Poetics of Politics, a symposium program on digital geopolitics. Currently based in the Interface Culture Lab (Linz), she is researching on hybrid, outside political/technological workers in electoral politics.
Wolfgang Spahn is an Austrian-German sound and visual artist based in Berlin. His work includes interactive installations, miniature-slide-paintings and performances of light & sound. His art explores the field of analogue and digital media and focusses on both their contradiction and their correlation. That's why he is also specialized in re-appropriated and re-purposed electronic technologies.