tekhnē

Thus, an electron that comes from the outlet, enters transistors and IC’s, accumulates at capacitors, and crosses resistors, eventually reaches the electron transfer chain and becomes the breath of a cell, or just travels along to be amplified and excite our …

During the residency, Augustė Vickunaitė will expand her sound performance practice into a more theatrical, scenographic, and installation-based approach. Since 2016, she has worked with reel-to-reel tape recorders, exploring the interplay between analog technology, human experience, and the imperfections of decaying machines …

The guiding focus of Darsha Hewitt’s residency is an interest in how and where we can blur the line between didactics and art—she strongly believes in the (underrepresented) format of the ‘performative workshop’ and its ability to transcend the learning …

The ‘Voice AI Covers’ are reinterpretations of songs that borrow the voice of a singer to overlay it on existing tracks. With the rise of artificial intelligence capable of generating content, new forms of production have emerged within internet cultures. This practice …

The guiding focus of Darsha Hewitt’s residency is an interest in how and where we can blur the line between didactics and art—she strongly believes in the (underrepresented) format of the ‘performative workshop’ and its ability to transcend the learning …

Dubwise Machine Listening

For Pedro Oliveira's residency at Q-O2, he would like to continue his investigation on the limits and failures of machine listening when it comes to what is it that a classification and identification algorithm understands as “voice” or “language …

During her residency, Soumaya Phéline’s will deepen her practice of CDJ turntablism, with a particular focus on the performative aspect of DJ’ing. By pushing the limits of CDJ’s and turtables (which are often seen as merely playback devices), she …

Throughout Claire Williams’s residency, research will be conducted to create a visible and non-visible interface of sensing and dowsing apparatus to receive and amplify discrete energies such as electromagnetism, occult radio oscillations, para communications, and ethereal waves from haunted circuits to …

A presentation of the Algorithmic Artscape, a work-in-progress web-platform for creative coding and expression.

This workshop will introduce Algorithmic Artscape, a work-in-progress web-platform exploring distributed community creativity.

This research project aims to explore call and response as an experimental technological system that threads culture together, a technology that puts out a signal picked up by bodies globally. The journalist Chal Ravens references philosopher Yuk Hui stating that ‘technology is …

SuperCollider is a free and open-source coding environment, first released in 1996 and now maintained and developed by an active community of code enthusiasts. It provides a framework for various sound research fields, from live coding to sound synthesis, from neural networks …

After doing some research related to natural changes and human consumption patterns, our artistic views have changed a lot because they often see directly the phenomena and ecological issues related to technological development. The high consumption of music production devices and the …

Since a few years, I have been researching how alternative tools in music production could be a way of emancipation for female artists and artists from gender minorities. During this research I interviewed artists operating at the fringes of technology, noting that …

For this residency, I would like to research a project called “whisper,” which deals with sound phenomena and subliminal sound and voice experiences.

I aim to investigate how phonetic voice or speech fragments resonate and are reflected in different environments and inhabit …

In my work, I create my own instruments with analogue technologies. The instruments I make draw on the functions and designs of folk and traditional wind instruments, such as bagpipes and organs. Their appearance several thousand years ago, for me, represents a …

Join us for an introduction to modular synthesis using Automatonism, a free, open source program that uses Pure Data. Felisha will guide you through the basics of the software and modular synth terminology as well as explain a few different modular patches …

“To execute the word” is an artistic research into the possibilities of language beyond its established limits and its capacity to generate new perceptive realities. With this purpose the word is detached from its qualities as a lexical element (semantics, syntax) in …

In this workshop we will experiment with the electronic circuits as materials for experimental artistic practices. Making use of simple alligator clips and batteries, we’ll modify and hack scrap speakers and motors, turning them into synthesizers, percussion instruments, and kinetic sculptures …