Shuruq Tramontini
Shuruq Tramontini
Shuruq Tramontini is a creative technical artist and educator based in Los Angeles and Berlin. In her practice, Tramontini works with real-time and interactive media to explore relationships between technology, culture, and nature. Her interest lies in game mechanisms and interactive game play to explore and provoke potential futures. These unfold in non-linear and non-traditional forms of storytelling, allowing ambiguity and surprise for narrative fictions to unfold. Tramontini has a decade-long experience in game engines, and her focus has narrowed down to character simulations. In her practice she explores how worlds can unfold through the POV of the characters that ...
Laleh Mehran
Laleh Mehran creates elaborate environments in digital and physical spaces.
Her work has been exhibited both solo and in collaboration at venues internationally, including the ISEA (United Arab Emirates), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), FILE (Brazil), ACT Festival (South Korea), 404 International Festival of Art & Technology (Argentina), Next 5 Minutes 4 Tactical Media Festival (Netherlands), European Media Arts Festival (Germany), Al Riwaq Art Space (Kingdom of Bahrain), Fubar Festival (Croatia), CologneOFF (Morocco), and in the USA at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mattress Factory Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, The Georgia Museum of ...
Andrew Pekler
Andrew Pekler was born in 1973 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. His family immigrated to the United States in 1980. He has resided in Germany since 1995. Andrew Pekler works with sampling and synthesis to produce texturally rich and sensually evocative sound compositions. Since 2002 he has released solo and collaborative musical works for labels includung Faitiche, Kranky, Shelter Press, and Senufo Editions. Pekler has also produced a number of video and installation works – always in combination with sound. Together with cultural anthropologist Kiwi Stefanie Menrath he developed PhantomIslands - A SonicAtlas, an interactive online map that charts the sounds and histories ...
Mai Kao
Mai Kao is an artist and researcher whose creative work explores materiality and texture through sound design and musical performance. As a producer and DJ, they draw from the tangible world – gelatin, glass, crystalline needles – to construct fantasy biomes and hi-res sonic landscapes. With features on lineups like Recombinant Festival (2024), they actively perform in the local club scene and revel in composing sets that weave together the soft and hard, continuity and catharsis. They have released solo work on Seattle’s Ommaya Records (2024) and San Francisco’s Club Moniker (2023). Currently they live in San Francisco and hail ...
