Marije Baalman is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound and light art, based in Amsterdam. She has made music and music-theatre performances, worked with dancers and has made several installations.

Topics that she addresses with her work are the nature of interaction between and entanglement of humans and technology, the influence of algorithms on society and the human experience, and environmental change.

In her artistic work she is interested in the realtime components of the work, composing processes, behaviours and interaction modalities. This means that the sonic or visual output depends on realtime interactions of the systems she builds with the performer, the audience, or the environment.

This is expressed with tools such as physical computing (performance interfaces and/or installations), livecoding (both as a skill, as well as a performance interface), digital and analog sound processing, and improvisation. In her work with light she uses methods from sound composition and synthesis. To realise her works she mostly uses open source technology (software and hardware) and she is an active contributor to the open source community.

She has done extensive research into the use of wireless networks for live performance, installations and interactive environments. In addition she has an interest in creating participative events and environments, drawing inspiration from methods from the larp community in combination with digital technology.

Marije is a contributor to “The SuperCollider Book” (MIT Press, 2011) and in 2022 she publised a book titled: “Composing Interactions – An Artist’s Guide to Building Expressive Interactive Systems” with V2_ in Rotterdam.