Christian Bök

Christian Bök is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia, a bestseller, which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. In 1994, Bök published Crystallography, “a pataphysical encyclopaedia that misreads the language of poetics through the conceits of geology. The Village Voice said of it: “Bök’s concise reflections on mirrors, fractals, stones, and ice diabolically change the way you think about language — his, yours — so that what begins as description suddenly seems indistinguishable from the thing itself.” Bök has also worked in science-fiction television by constructing artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. 

Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand

Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand create multi-sensory installations and performances that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Their artworks have emerged through collaborations with pioneering research groups, including LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), EU Quantum Flagship, and Aerospace Engineering (TU Delft). They are recipients of the Witteveen+Bos Award (2019), Meru Art*Science Award (2018),  Japan Media Arts Excellence Prize (2007) and five Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017). Domnitch and Gelfand have exhibited at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), the Venice Biennial, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome), and the National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo).

Jasna Veličković

Jasna Veličković is a Belgrade-born Dutch composer and performer based in Amsterdam. Since 2008 she has been exploring the musical capacities of the magnetic field – induction, interference and electromagnetism – both as the source of sound and the compositional material. That led her to the construction of a new instrument aptly named the Velicon – a specific electronic system consisting of a changeable configuration of magnets and metal objects animated by coils. This preoccupation of hers became an ongoing artistic research project that she dubbed “The Art of Coil“.

Stephanie Pan

Stephanie Pan is a voice artist, composer, interdisciplinary maker, performer and curator currently based in The Hague, the Netherlands. A mutating combination of theater/performance art/experimental music/improvisation/controlled chaos/pop music/classical music, her work is visceral, passionate and intense, and often explores the limits of the body and voice. She has performed throughout the US and Europe, and has presented both solo and collaborative work in venues and festivals as varied as CTM Berlin, Sziget Festival, Rewire Festival, Young Vic Theatre London, La MaMa Theater NYC, BBC, IDFA, Dutch National Opera, Beursschouwburg Brussel, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

Alberto Novello

Alberto Novello repurposes found or decontextualised analogue devices to investigate the connections between light and sound in the form of contemplative installations and performances. He repairs and modifies tools from our analogue past: oscilloscopes, early game consoles, analogue video mixers, and lasers. He is attracted to their intrinsic limitations and strong ‘personalities’: fluid beam movement, vivid colors, infinite resolution, absence of frame rate, and line aesthetics. His work has been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Ars Electronica Linz, Venice Biennale, National Art Museo of Lima, Bozar Bruxelles, Rewire Festival Den Haag, Glasgow Contemporary Art Centre.

Milana Zarić

Milana Zarić  is a creative musician. Principal harpist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, solo and chamber musician specializing in modern repertoire, artistic director of Ensemble Studio 6 and educator at the Hague Royal Conservatoire, she is an initiator of international projects, establishing new bridges in collaborative creation. She combines composition with free improvisation in projects involving sound and transdisciplinary arts. Milana has premiered over 30 solo harp and ensemble works, to which she contributed with voice, zither, percussion, electric harp and electronics. She has performed across three continents and is a regular member of harp and electronics duo with Richard Barrett.

Richard Barret

Richard Barrett is internationally active as composer and performer, teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and is Professor of Creative Music Research at the University of Leiden. His work encompasses a range from free improvisation to intricately-notated scores, and from acoustic chamber music to innovative uses of digital technology. Barrett won the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, in 1986, and was awarded the Gaudeamus Prize in 1989. He also won the Chamber Music category of the 2003 British Composer Awards. Many of his works  have extra-musical associations—particularly with Samuel Beckett and Roberto Matta.

Pinkcourtesyphone

Pinkcourtesyphone is a continuing project by Los Angeles-based sound artist / composer Richard Chartier. He is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist sound art which has been termed both microsound and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself. Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.