Blog Posts
The Impossibility of Invisibility
Transdisciplinary theatrical music performance on/with WiFi sensing Ready for a world where your router knows more about you than your therapist? “Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It […]
The Great Solar Storm
Immersive interactive adventure for young time portal explorers using FM radios and low-powered FM transmissions
Re-imagining Opera
Noise, tekno, post-punk and improv meet opera.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Computer Aided Breathing: A Page of Madness
The Computer Aided Breathing trio performs a live score for Teinosuke Kinugasa’s experimental 1926 silent film A Page of Madness.
The Water Within (Hertzian Field #3)
An intimate multi-sensory environment of complete immersion in an interactive wet sauna combining WiFi sensing, machine listening, embedded 3D sound, hot steam and architectural design.
Hot Listening Booth
A venue for intimate listening under high temperatures: a 3-person dry sound sauna heated by infrared light.
Modern Body Festival 2016: I/WE/THEY
2nd biennial edition of Modern Body Festival, exploring the social body, how we exist and belong in today’s networked world, and what the cultural borders of a globalized society are.
Space Media Festival Taipei 2016: I/WE/THEY
Sister edition of Modern Body Festival 2016 taking place in Taipei, initiated by Modern Body and DEZACT architectural platform.