Fueled by an insatiable curiosity for experimentation, Stephanie’s artistic journey explores sound matter through installation, performance, experimental electronic instrument making and composition. Rooted in materiality and process, she transforms discarded machines into vessels of resonance, glitches and latent sonorities. By translating the nuances of the sensory world, her work seeks to unveil the hidden facets of our subtle environment, bridging the realms of perception and the imperceptible. Her work has been presented at LAB30, Instruments Make Play/STEIM, MUTEK, Tsonami Sound Art Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Musica Ex Machina, and Klangmanifeste, and was recently shown at FIMAV.

During her residency Stephanie will work on “liminal.synthesis”. “liminal.synthesis” delves into the materiality of light and sound, refining energy transduction to convert light into audible phenomena. Using custom-built electronic circuits, it captures light’s fluctuations as rhythmic sound patterns, enabling composition through light. This research orchestrates a transparent dialogue between light pulses and rhythmic beats, weaving them into an audiovisual performance. Organic bioplastics introduce a tactile, symbolic layer to light projection, bridging technology and nature.

Stephanie Castonguay’s residency is part of the residency exchange program between iii and perte de signal in order to support cooperation and international excellence in digital arts. This partnership aims to foster independent creation, cultural diversity and the transmission of knowledge / skill-sets in the digital arts between the Netherlands and Quebec.

This project was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.