For 20 years, Jahnavi Stenflo and Nathan Jantz have been working together creatively in different capacities, from performing live, to curating and production. First appearing at 2016’s clandestine annual outdoor event Lunar Lodge, their live performance of “Frequencies Unseen” was staged at the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival later that year. While continuing to evolve their AV live performances, they were invited in 2023 to participate in a residency at Signal Culture, resulting in a piece currently in the group exhibit, “The Experimental Frontier” at the Loveland Museum, in Colorado.

L’Astra Cosmo’s work is rooted in rarely explored future-retro aesthetics: seeking a hybrid visual language between science and mysticism, technology and organic matter. Utilizing oscilloscopic displays, they approach obsolete video technologies and the flow of electricity not as museum relics, but as re-activated mediums and interlocutors. Treating these elements as catalysts in an explorative dialogue, their work directly addresses perception, entropy, and the aesthetics of signal decay. This methodology allows for a critical reclaiming and renewal, moving the axis of experimental video forward by reaffirming its utility as a current process for discovery and examination in signal aesthetics and committed technical practice.