Saverio Cantoni is an italian artist based in Berlin since 2010. They is working mainly with artistic media that are machine or digitally reproducible, articulating narratives that address social and environmental justice subjects. They questions the human dominant perspective developing participative artworks that invite to inclusive forms of interaction. Their works are equally informed by scientific researches, speculative fictions and mythologies; being a disabled artist they is enthusiastic about somatic communism. Saverio Cantoni collaborated with Armin Linke and was part of the research team of The Anthropocene Project at the HKW in Berlin, subsequently they held a solo exhibition at Fotografia Europea, curated by Giovanna Calvenzi. In 2018 participated Fragmented Vision, curated by Vanina Saracino in Jerusalem and Forecast at HKW, with mentee Laura Lima. Their research Assemblage Italia! became part of the public collection in MuFoCo in Milano after being presented in Triennale. In 2020 Saverio Cantoni participated in The Curious Loop, curated by Ece Pazarbasi and later that year presented the pixelrave, produced by HAU theater. www.saveriocantoni.eu www.densityaroundvoid.org

Originally from Paris, Charlotte Colmant moved in New York after graduating from the Sorbonne University a Master degree in French Literature, with a focus on audio visual. She trained at the Martha Graham School in New York City. As a dancer and interpret, she has worked with artists including Linda Tegg (MOMA), Caleb Hammond (M.I.T.), LEIMAY (Buto based dance theatre company) and Sidra Bell. Her choreographic and video works has been presented and performed in New York at the Muriel Schulman Theater (Triskelion Arts), Wild Project (THE CURRENT SESSIONS), Center for Performance Research, The Kraine Theater, The HOLLOWS Art Space and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery. In Europe, her performative work has been performed in Lake Studios in Berlin, and the National Gallery in Prague. Now based in Paris, she is currently researching into dance as a visual form, through an exploration of the body in its environment.

Guy Fixsen is a London-based Composer / Sound Engineer / Music Producer / Musician. Best-known for his work with experimental rock bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab and The Pixies, and for forming the electronica-pop/post-rock band Laika with which he has made 4 studio albums on Beggars Banquet Records and toured with the likes of Radiohead and Tricky. In recent years, he has focussed his attention on fresh challenges in the world of film, working variously as Sound Designer, Composer and Recordist on several shorts and features. www.guyfixsen.com

Konstantin Guz’s current artistic practice is multidisciplinary. It uses his solid understanding of photography as a base to experiment with different mediums such as video, sound and found objects. The beginning of the 2020 started with the exhibiting of Konstantin’s new work Wisdom in Silence in ART Rotterdam and screening the video work called Third Nature on AT5 (Amsterdam tv channel). 2019 Konstantin had his solo show in Takeo, Japan and has participated in three art residencies: Ateliers’89 (Oranjestad, Aruba), Arts Itoya (Takeo, Japan) and Audiotalaia (Ilzarbe, Spain). In September 2019 Konstantin got invitation to join the project Co-incide: Image meets Sound, audiovisual performance in collaboration with Kateryna Snizhko, Ira Melkonyan, UNSEEN, Amsterdam. 2018 he had screening of his Untitled experiment film in W139 art space, Amsterdam; 2017 Konstantin had his first solo show Untitled experiment with no image in the Netherlands in Neverneverland, Amsterdam. Same year he was invited as guest teacher to film workshops held in Ukraine organized by The One Minutes organization. In November 2017 his 2-channel a/v installation “Ongon” was presented in happylucky no.1, New York. Konstantin has also shown his other works in Fabrika (Moscow, 2016), in The Link Art Center (Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy, 2017), during ARTGeneva in 2014, also in St. Petersburg and Hamburg. www.konstantinguz.com

Eva Macali is an Italian research artist, poet and curator working through sound, painting, assemblage and video, often integrating them through installation. Her practice deals with the morphology of language and the metaphysics of matter focusing especially on nature and gender in a post-human perspective. She works in solo projects as well as social and participated projects.

Carina Pesch was trained as voice artist by Alexis Krüger, taught how to make radio features by Michael Lissek and Walter Filz, making radio fiction she learnt from Petschinka and Paul Plamper, sound art she learnt from Antje Vowinckel and Chris Watson. Today she works as sound and voice artist, author, director, and curator – mainly in the fields of radio, installation, and the walking arts for public broadcasters, international festivals, and cultural institutions. She also co-curates the gathered listening event GERÄUSCHKULISSE – a platform for all who love good stories and immersive sound worlds. Her works have been shortlisted and awarded with national and international honors like Prix Phonurgia Nova, Berliner Hörspielfestival, Audiowalk Award, Grand Prix Nova.

Natalia Domínguez Rangel (NL/CO) composer/sound artist living and working between Vienna and Amsterdam. Domínguez Rangel makes installations, sculptures and performances artworks. She also incorporates her expertise in music composition as a mechanism for contemplating the imperceptible, the unseen, the impalpable. Her work connects with architecture, acoustics, technology and nature. She is interested how sound affects and resonates with a body physiologically and psychologically, and how critical listening deepens, extends and sets connections to other acoustic ecologies not only to the anthrophony.

“Sound is power, it can be a source of both pain and pleasure.“

www.nataliadominguezrangel.com

Martin Reck is an electronic musician and sound artist. He studied audio design at the Musikakademie Basel. Since 2012 DJ performances, event series and productions in Basel, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bern and Zurich, and since 2018 various live performances. The central theme of his work is the interweaving of compositional and performative processes. The exploration of new and the development of existing formats and stages plays an important role in his practice. The starting point of a piece are mostly sound recordings/fieldrecordings with a documentary or sound-aesthetic background. The self-built and programmed instrument ADIO (Attack Decay Inter-Onset) enables a haptic and sensitive access to this material. www.martinreck.ch

David Sappa is an experimental sound designer whose work ranges from acousmatic compositions, interactive installations, free improvisation, sound objects to sensory playground design. David has had music played on the BBC, Birp FM, composed for the Financial Times, and produced podcasts for the Upside and On the Record. His most recent research and body of work is concerned with how the physicality of sound can be used to treat the distressing effects of trauma; for example biofeedback systems between pulse>vibration>body, or through exploring tactile qualities that emanate vibration. David is currently completing his MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art.

Kyoco Taniyama is creating site-specific multimedia installations using sculpture, photograph, video, sound. She is born in Japan, lives and works in Berlin/Tokyo. Exhibitions from recent years include: “Stone will flow, leaves will sink” ( solo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2018) “Why is that view so interesting” (solo, Fuchu Art Museum, Performance Art Project No. 68, Tokyo, Japan, 2016) “Tea Talks” (solo, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016) “Rainy Alley” / “I’m here” (Setouchi International Art Festival, Kagawa, Japan, 2010/2013) and others. www.kyocotaniyama.com

James Wood grew up in the south west of England, and accidentally became a musician by following his sister into school band practice. Many years later, he is a musician, academic and writer who has performed across the world. He has had poetry published in The Moth, Kindling Journal and The Looking Glass. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition. In 2014 he won (with Donkey Zoo) the inaugural Cheltenham Jazz Festival Award. In 2017 he was awarded the Vinson Award from the University of York for academic excellence. He is studying for his PhD at Leiden University and is an affiliate member of ARC (Art_Research_Convergence). Through 2018, James had to take prolonged periods out of practice for medical reasons. 2019 and 2020 has seen him present work as a visiting artist researcher in Lagos, Guelph, and Grenoble.

Emilie Wright is a visual artist from Melbourne, Australia, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts: Honours at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), having completed my Bachelor of Fine Arts (Expanded Studio Practice) at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia). Prior to commencing the BFA, she founded an Artist Run Initiative, Bower Gallery in 2010, working as Curator and Director until 2013. For the last few years she has participated in studio residency programs in Denmark, Iceland and Greenland. These were pivotal moments that influenced her thinking and practice and that ultimately prompted an international relocation in order to test her commitment to transition her materials based practice into something more sustainable by challenging the notion of the artist studio as fixed place. She moved to Norway in 2018 to pursue a Masters of Fine Art at the Art Academy KMD at the University of Bergen, from which she has graduated in 2020. She is currently in living and working in Bergen, Norway. www.emiliewright.com.au

Jun Zhang is a designer and researcher currently based in Amsterdam. With a background in interior-architecture design, his main interest lies in the various relation between people’s life and space. He uses the space as a medium to respond the specific phenomenon in different place and culture, explore the new possibilities of our living system. He makes the space not only a physical room for inhabitancy but a fermentation installation which could absorb energy from different people and transfer them into various stories or events.