He began his artistic studies in the conservatory of Lucena at the age of 16, in the speciality in clarinet and composition. Currently he is continuing his education in ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag. The Netherlands.

He has presented some of his works at different festivals and programs such as Tabacalera (Madrid), Studio Loos (Den Haag. The Netherlands), Lokal 01 (Breda. The Netherlands), LEM Festival (Barcelona), MÍNIM Festival (Barcelona. Spain), REMOR Festival (Girona. Spain), Red Rouse Club (London), West Hill Hall (Brighton, U.K) or Blip Fest (Berlin).

http://juancantizzani.wordpress.com

Her background is in Graphic Design and [live] animation. In the passed years she developed a undercurrent fascination for straight forms, stroboscopic movement and analogue machines. As soon she came in contact with the principle of synthetic sound on film, she started to build cinematic instruments and installations based on ‘optical sound’: moving form and light which create sound.

In 2009/2010 Marisa received a Startstipendium from Fonds BKVB. In 2011 she was nominated for the STRP Talent Pit and selected for the New Arrivals of Rewire Festival. Mariska presented at events like Oddstream Festival, STRP, Freemote and Rewire Festival.

GRAHICAL SOUND. Straight forms and light generate sound. An invention of the early ’20 used for film and the first synthesizers. A beautiful and magical concept but always covered in a big machine. I’m undusting and celebrating optical sound by making instruments, installations and doing performances based on this principle. Therefore I take advantage of the purest characteristics and give them room to experience.

Marcus Graf is a software artist with strong roots in mathematics and music. His work is divided into two main areas of research: the emotional and physical relationship between man and machine, and the search for a mathematical description of aesthetics.

His works have been shown at festivals like TodaysArt, E-Pulse, STRP and WiredFestival. In spring 2012 he will tour as audio-visual performer with the MC Dance company showing their newest work Imagine.

His graduation piece deals with the creation of an artificial artist.

http://www.marcusgraf.com

Dieter Vandoren is a media artist, performer and developer. His work balances on the edge of creative arts and scientific research & development. It combines audiovisual creation with IT engineering in architectural settings, mostly real-time generative and interactive. His current focus is on performing spatial, immersive audiovisual instruments.

He is a guest tutor and researcher at the Hyperbody and StudioLab groups at the Delft University of Technology (Faculty of Architecture and Industrial Design, respectively). Directs Rotterdam-based art centre De Fabriek.

His project Integration.03 was nominated for the STRP Talent Pit Award 2011. Hyperbody’s project InteractiveWall in which he was a team member received the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award 2009 in the category robotics and bionics.

www.dietervandoren.net

To attain the truth you must spout lies, to clear the waters you must muddy them.

Baldur Bjornsson works at understanding the world by ingesting it, analyzing it, via symbols, aesthetics and the lens of history, then casting it forth again to re-enter the physical world in the form of art. He believes that by mixing different techniques and disciplines, fact and fiction, reality and unreality there may be a chance of gaining true insights into the nature of the world and humanity’s place within it. And that by confusing and complexifying things, they may in the end become clearer than before.

Gabey Tjon a Tham is an installation artist working with an extensive variety of media and art forms.
During her years in Fine Arts her work developed from the two-dimensional surface to more interdisciplinary attitudes and site-specific/spatial installations in which she discovered a particular interest for the medium Sound and Installation as distinct phenomena.
Her work consists of re-contextualized excerpts from reality that gain their form within a space of architecture in which the perceiver is reverted to the process of reflection on it’s own thoughts and associations.

))))) repetition at my distance
Is a generative environment, based on a subjective interpretation of our experience and the behavior of sound traveling through space.
Inspired by the movement of the wind through the trees she makes this tangible by creating a field of rotating lighting wires. Their ever evolving motion, shape and sound are continuously changing an environment that envelopes the perceiver, constructing its surrounding and imaginary space.

I’m a new media artist working with performance and installations, with projects ranging from opera pieces performed by micro-organisms to human intruments and stroboscopic lightshows. For my graduation piece I’m developing an installation to experience the effects of flickering light in a monumental form.

Joris Strijbos is a Rotterdam-based artist, working in the fields of expanded (live) cinema, audio performances and kinetic-light-installations. He is one of the persons behind “Macular”, a collective which focus is mainly on the synaesthetic relation and interaction between moving image and sound.

“Homeostase” is a kinetic light sculpture in which 30 rotating objects form a robotic swarm.
By using the concept of homeostasis the objects become actors and perform a generative and dynamical choreography in which attraction and distraction play an important role.

Her work focuses on creating immersive experiences by bringing to awareness matters that are unnoticed with the aid of nowadays technology. From experimental music to installations, solo or in collaboration, she has presented her work in festivals such as Medea Electronic 2008, Greece (Ademen); TodaysArt 2010, Netherlands, (Structet); Spark Festival 2010, USA (Ademen); Palm Top Theater exhibition in Rotterdam Film Festival 2011 Netherlands (Lepokoa); STRP Festival 2011, Netherlands (Cymating, Lepokoa)

Kulunka ‘Phenomenological embodied live cinema’ is an installation that activates unusual ways of perceiving sonic vibrations. Projections through acoustically saturated water envelope the viewer in sonic ripples of light, along with the embrace of tactile sound, creating an intimate immersion into the sway of sound.

Pablo Sanz Almoguera is a sound artist whose research explores interactions between hearing, noise, space and environment, resulting into live events, site-specific projects, installations and fixed media works.

He has participated in events, festivals, group shows and initiatives in the Netherlands (STEIM, Studio LOOS, Lokaal 01, KABK, KC), Spain (Auditorio Nacional, Experimentaclub, Inland Residency Program, In-Sonora, Radio Reina Sofía, Sonikas, ZEMOS98), Portugal (Casa da Música, RadiaLX, RadioZero), Germany (Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastrasse, ZKM), UK (Framework Radio, SoundFjord Gallery) and US (Gallery Aferro). His work has been awarded in the ‘5th On-Air Radiophonic Art Prize’ (2009, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid) and the competition ‘Europa – Ein Klangpanorama’ (2011, Goethe Institute, Deutschlandradio Kultur, ZKM-Karlsruhe).

In addition, since 2004 he is an active member of Mediateletipos.net and the community ArteSonoro.org, platforms through which he has been contributing to a number of editorial and curatorial projects.

http://www.20020.org

Ben Terwel is a sound and music artist exploring the possibilities of extending (analog) electronics to physical materials. His work evolved from his performances with hand-made electronic music and performance instruments (STEIM 2009-2010) to his series of portable electro-mechanical devices. His works usually incorporate phenomena in electronics/mechanics.

In his latest project, Klangpootklinkers, Ben aims to make people more aware of the sounds that are surrounding us by spreading a series of electro-mechanical creatures that harness objects around them as sound instruments.

Gergo creates site-specific installations, sound works and performances. He is co-founder of BA (Unrated), a Hungarian electroacoustic audiovisual young artists collective, who has curated and managed the +3dB Sound Art Festival in Budapest. Besides of this he is running several solo and collaborative music projects.

His graduating project is an interactive sonorous space, a multiple spatial layers of sound, which are the extension of the sonic senses. The piece investigates the way how we relate to sonic processes and how we describe the space through sound.

http://dacwave.blogspot.com/
http://besorolasalatt.hu/

Pablo Dias is an artist with background in design and audiovisual communication. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he moved to Amsterdam five years ago.

His artistic work is based on the act of appropriation and translation. He is inspired by the communication potential of the human body, by verbal discourses and by the mystical and irrational power of sound.

He uses his sensibility to filter and repurpose a vast collection of references from philosophy to music, from physics to cinema.

His graduating piece at the master ArtScience is In Return. There he transforms collective and personal narratives by manipulating the video language and his own body. His goal is to reach the spectator’s poetic inner universe.

www.pablodias.com

I’m an artist working in the field of new media, audiovisual art and performance art. My work consists out of audiovisual installations, theatrical performances, short film, animations and site specific projects.

Braindrain
This audiovisual / theatrical performance is about the confrontation between an artist and different projections of himself on stage. The audience is given a glimpse into the restless mind of the artist. It’s an alienating combination of film, animation, performance and installation. Elements like poetry, spoken word, projections, singing and live acting mix up in an intriguing dreamy state where reality might shift. Can insomnia bombard the senses in such a way that it results in some kind of brain map? – All this results in a dynamic and psychedelic but also wonderful performance.

My work often concerns the subject of music, often refers to the mind, consciousness, rationality,language, archetypes, traditions, religion, ethics, the will of nature -and those things that exist but we do not have a name for. It could be said that metaphysics is always a main subject, often represented by fragile performances or performances full of tension where the public might get an intimidating feeling of not knowing what is going to happen.

¨IMMANUEL IMMANUEL¨ is a film about the Contemporary world view of the modern man.
There is a conflict between a so called ¨Scientific world view ¨ and a ¨Religious
world view ¨. An apocalyptic feeling of expectation is being created. A longing for Spiritual life at the time humanitiy´s beliefs in technological developments and the search for a higher consciousness threatens to end. A sort of revelation is reflected in the film, where Love and Beauty are the only elements of hope and consolation we are left with.