Blog Posts
Re-imagining Opera
Noise, tekno, post-punk and improv meet opera.
[PhD] Hertzian Fields: Exploring WiFi microwave signals as a spatial and embodied sensing medium for art
PhD dissertation in Digital Arts and Experimental Media centered around a series of artworks exploring WiFi as a spatial and embodied sensing medium through a new WiFi sensing technique developed by the author.
Palpebla Resonoj #2
A live set / open composition for feedback-augmented acoustic guitar and real-time processing.
DraMAYAma
DraMAYAma: a Space-Time Travel is a feature length film by Jeanette Groenendaal with music by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan. A journey inside, an astrological cosmic dance beyond the end of the Maya calendar.
An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: A full body workout radio play
A genre-blurring experience for solo audiences at home: Re-imagine your place through your movement, music and storytelling.
Models for Environmental Literacy
Three experimental films by Tivon Rice speculating how Artificial Intelligences could have alternative perceptions of an environment. Sound composed by Stelios Manousakis and Stephanie Pan.
Primeval Sonic Atoms [IR011]
An album in which the intrinsic nature of digital technology becomes a metaphor for the origins of the universe.
Riot. Rally. Protest: Earth December 2019
A curated archive of found footage from protests, demonstrations, riots, strikes, and other political gatherings that occurred around the world during the last month of an increasingly turbulent decade.
Sensing Sound exhibition @ Musical Utopias #2
A sound art exhibition curated by Modern Body exploring augmented sound perception. Part of the program of Musical Utopias #2: A festival of Sonic Embrace (2019).
Snow
A fixed medium sound composition for dance, contemplating the noise of being as a cosmology of the inner self. Part of Primeval Sonic Atoms.
They Gather
An international collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary project, creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, movement, and sound.
They Gather: Corpus Alimentation
An immersive multisensory performance that is part documentary, part science fiction, part ritual. By They Gather project.
They Gather: Everyday Freedoms
A durational work in public space looking at our need for freedom, and where, when and how this exists and is expressed. By They Gather project.
They Gather: Lost in Feeling
A mass public participation work for audience, community and artists exploring our need to connect to others, to be seen and to be heard. By They Gather project.
Modern Body Festival
A platform examining the nature of our current existence through thematic events that curate experiences: physical / visceral / immersive / intimate.
Modern Body Festival 2018: ALIEN BODIES
3rd biennial edition of the intermedial Modern Body Festival, seeking, confront and empathizing with the alien.
The Water Within (Hertzian Field #3.1) [v.2018]
An intimate 20-minute experience of complete multi-sensory immersion in a reactive steam sauna sensing water molecules (in bodies and steam) via WiFi.
Loop/Copy/Mutate: I Am Legion (Software)
Loop/Copy/Mutate: I Am Legion is an Artificial Intelligence singer modeled after the improvisational method of the Genetic Choir.
Modern Body Laboratory #2: Intelligent Artifacts & Breathing Spaces
Exhibition and performances curated by Modern Body to explore emerging themes and ideas in preparation for our next biennial festival edition.
Modern Body Laboratory #1: Alan Turing – Artificial Intelligence and Immortality
An evening symposium on Alan Turing, father of computer science and a pioneer in AI and encryption. Organized by Modern Body Festival in collaboration with Stichting ARTEk.