Category Archives: Events
WORKSHOP: Psychophysics Machines Jam Session on 26. April in Zagreb
The workshop gives an introduction to robotics, directional sound and visual control ranging from working with mechatronic systems to programming in processing and VVVV to cross-communication using open sound control.
We give an insight into our artistic practice and participants have the possibility to engage with 5 robots and use the tools we normally use to have a jam session together. This includes controlling the movements of the robots, the sound that is played and a custom made visual mixer.
When?
26. April
Duration?
~ 4 hours, start 2pm – open end evening
Format?
informal meet-up at the gallery space,
hands-on jam session: control robots + sound + visuals
Where?
Student Center, gallery
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.
Saturn3: Performance on 2nd May 2018 at IZLOG SUVRE MENOG ZVUKA – Showroom of Contemporary Sound, Zagreb
Saturn3 meets Empathy Swarm
in collaboration with KONEJNER, Zagreb
As kick-off of our EMAP/EMARE Residency in Croatia this summer, we spent 3 weeks working on Emotion Recognition, Psychophysics Machines and Sound Generation.
Łukasz Szałankiewicz aka Zenial joins us to perform at Izlog Festival on the 2nd of May. He will be the first one to use our emotion system prototype live on stage as part of our Saturn3 setup.
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.
Curious Tautophone on Australia tour – next stop: PLIMSOLL GALLERY, SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS, UTAS, Hobart: 20 April- 27 May, 2018
Soon it is the third time that Curious Tautophone shows. This time in Tasmania at Plimsoll Gallery, School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart’s gallery for innovative local, national and international contemporary art and design.
Opening event: Friday 20 April, 5:30 – 7pm

Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania

Micro-residency Showroom of Contemporary Sound in collaboration with KONTEJNER from 18th April – 6 May, Zagreb, Croatia
As kick-off of our EMAP/EMARE Residency in Croatia this summer, we spent 3 weeks working on Emotion Recognition, Psychophysics Machines and Sound Generation.
This first stage will focus on the Emotion Recognition Software which we will use for Empathy Swarm during our main residency in June and July at KONTEJNER, Zagreb and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka.
We take the festival IZLOG SUVRE MENOG ZVUKA – Showroom of Contemporary Sound as a chance for testing the Emotion Recognition and Sound generation in the format of our Saturn3 performance together with Łukasz Szałankiewicz aka Zenial.
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.
Media Art Worlds, Helsinki: a conference on hybrid economies of digital art
An inspiring and challenging conference in Helsinki asking real questions about the role and future of media art in Europe. Sara Cook gave an impressive overview about the history of media art and the challenges of it.
The conference was also the perfect opportunity to meet-up and discuss with all the EMAP/EMARE artists and organizations and to get to know each other’s projects. For the first time we also met the organizers of our residency from KONTEJNER.
Thanks for fantastic hosting to m-cult!
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.
(pictures © KONTEJNER)
Curious Tautophone on Australia tour: THE LOCK-UP, Newcastle: 3 February – 18 March, 2018
The second stop on the Tautophone’s journey through Australia is THE LOCK-UP, Newcastle.

(picture © Experimenta)
Saturn3 performance clip in Sanatorium Dźwięku 2017 Sokołowsko Synopsis Video
Our collaborator Łukasz Szałankiewicz sums it up in the interview:
“Directional speakers using robotic manipulation and all sounds obtained from magnetic fields. That’s it in a nutshell.”
More about the performance: Saturn3.
“Sanatorium Dźwięku launched in 2015 in Sokołowsko is a festival dedicated to contemporary experimental music and sound art. Its main objective is to present the phenomena and trends in the 20th and 21st centuries, maintaining the balance between traditions of experimental music and the new, still structureless tendencies.” from http://festiwal.sanatoriumdzwieku.pl/en/ .
[...] Lukasz Szalankiewicz and Adam Donovan counter this with their Saturn 3 showcase, merging live visuals by Katrin Hochschuh with an electronic psychoacoustic gauze generated by moving robotic tripods shifting beams of sound through an electromagnetic field.
Saturn3 performance mentioned in The Wire
“On Location – Festivals, concerts, clubs: Sanatorium Dźwięku“ by Richard Jonson
in The Wire – October 2017 (Issue 404) p. 82
Curious Tautophone on Australia tour: Premiere at RMIT GALLERY, Melbourne: 2 October – 11 November, 2017
Curious Tautophone – Tensor Field Ontonlogy has its premiere at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, perfectly timed to also be part of Melbourne Festival 2017.
A perfect start for the Tautophone’s exciting journey across Australia and to 10 different museums/galleries.

(pictures © Experimenta, Margund Sallowsky, Mark Ashkanasy, Matto Lucas)


