Xenolalia (work in progress), 2020

Sofian is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Audry’s work is inspired from artificial intelligence, artificial life, biology and cognitive sciences, branching through multiple media including robotics, interactive installations, immersive environments, physical computing interventions, internet art, and electronic literature.

Sofian Audry’s work and research have been shown at major international events and venues such as Ars Electronica, Barbican, Centre Pompidou, Club Transmediale, Dutch Design Week, Festival Elektra, International Digital Arts Biennale, International Symposium on Electronic Art, LABoral, La Gaîté Lyrique, Marrakech Biennale, Nuit Blanche Paris, Society for Arts and Technology, V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Muffathalle Munich and the Vitra Design Museum.

TeZ (aka Maurizio Martinucci) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher, living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty in Den Haag, Minerva Academy in Groningen, Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, TeZ is regularly showing his work and giving lectures at both academic and artistic contexts. His installations and performances have been featured at major venues and festivals worldwide including Ars Electronica Linz, BIAN Montreal, Gropius Bau Berlin, Chronus Art Center Shanghai among many others. He’s been running the ‘Optofonica’ Lab for Synesthetic ArtScience in Amsterdam since 2006.

TeZ explores the boundaries between human perception and all physical phenomena associated to vibrations. He crafts custom generative software and instruments for sound and light propagation, as well as specific architectural structures where subtle oscillations can reach the body and stimulate meditative and immersive experiences. 

 

TeZ is also active member of HACKTERIA International Society and his latest work explores the relationship between living microorganisms and Artificial Intelligence systems.

TeZ’s holistic paradigm aims at encompassing many of the disciplines related to art and science, together with ecology and mindfulness.