ATELIER-E is an interdisciplinary laboratory for new media founded by visual artist Daniel Dalfovo and sound artist Christian Losert. Both work and teach at the intersection of art, technology and science. In their artistic practice they create multimedia spaces, audio-visual narratives and collaborate with international artists and research institutions.
Image copyright © ATELIER-E
HOLON is proud to support A Fractal Manifesto; an upcoming visual-sonic spatial installation and performance by Stina Baudin and Abigail Toll for the series Rehearsing Moves on Hazy Paths at ZK/U in Berlin.
In this visual sonic spatial installation, Canadian-Haitian visual artist Stina Baudin and British, Berlin-based experimental sound artist and composer Abigail Toll, pull apart the logic of a dataset. During a residency at HOLON in August 2023, the artists will develop a motion based interactive sensor using TouchDesigner for this installation.
Through a process spanning almost a year, the artists collect data (what they call truth values) from their own daily experiences and co-create across the six hour time difference between Germany and Canada. Together, they distort hierarchies of knowledge and center nuanced conversations surrounding their histories of migration that are ordinarily left absent from datasets. Layering together six woven panels combined with six music movements that encapsulate six themes, the topics are generated through their research and illustrated with digitized and distorted layered images and sound, as well as a co-creative manifesto. The fragmented sound and illegible visual documentation calls into question not only the absence and distortions that the artists found in previous datasets, but highlights how lived experience and memories – our truth values – undergo a process of fragmentation and distortion over time.
Location:
ZK/U Berlin
KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V.
Siemensstr. 27,
10551 Berlin
Maria Braune
(DE)
Maria Braune (1988, DE) is a visual artist originally hailing from Berlin, who has lived and worked between Munich and Chiemsee since 2008. She completed an apprenticeship in sculpture at the Berchtesgaden School of Sculpture between 2008-2011, studied Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and received her diploma in 2017. She organizes the collective artist-run space LANGEVIN in Munich, has received nominations for various prizes and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Germany and internationally.
Over the course of a few years, she’s developed Migma: a substance composed of eight raw materials which is heated, poured, shaped and dried over multiple weeks. During this time, she adds further industrially manufactured materials to activate ruptures and changes which proliferate and claim their space. Her works provide insights into growth processes, especially those which are uncontrollable, and ask questions on transformation, symbiosis, and decay.
Text by Anabel Roque Rodríguez
Image copyright © Maria Braune
Maria Braune's work is kindly supported by NEUSTART Kultur.
11v151131_m06
(MX)
11v151131_m06(MX) is a visual and sound artist interested in speculative approaches to sound and visuals. Since 2012, his research has focused on Computer Generated Imagery and he has lived and worked with New Media Art and Technology Studios across Europe, America and Asia.
11v151131_M06 studied composition at Pompeu Fabra University in 2008 and has collaborated with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, Yoshida Tatsuya, William Winant. He is currently researching concepts around Ancient futurism & Occultism.
Hannelore Braisch
(RO / DE)
Hannelore Braisch (RO/DE) is a digital 3D artist with a focus on CGI and motion design. Having completed a bachelor’s degree in communication design, she now produces 3D generated artworks for contemporary visual content and mostly in cooperation with clients across the fields of art, music and fashion.
Braisch’s digital artworks are organic shapes and structures inspired by summers visiting the Carpathian Mountains and her deep connection to nature. Her intuitive art practice challenges visual design norms through experimental encounters with reality and the metaverse. She often finds that something entirely new emerges when combining futuristic, surreal shapes with the organic, physical world. It’s what has shaped her personal aesthetic expression that is both alien and tactile.
ATELIER-E
(DE)
ATELIER-E is an interdisciplinary laboratory for new media founded by visual artist Daniel Dalfovo and sound artist Christian Losert. Both work and teach at the intersection of art, technology and science. In their artistic practice they create multimedia spaces, audiovisual narratives and collaborate with international artists and research institutions.
Image copyright © ATELIER-E
Stina Baudin
(HT/CA)
Stina Baudin (she/her) is an emerging Haitian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist. She has studied both at Concordia University in Montreal and The Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Using her own idiosyncratic visual language of pattern and relationships, Baudin’s large-scale, hand-woven fiber works create a counter-patriarchal, anti-capitalist and anticolonial way of narrating meaning from data. By collapsing the division between anecdotal and statistical data, her work removes the hierarchical distinctions between the scientific and the personal. They then start to operate as an entangled web of cohabiting knowledge centers - the scientific data indivisible from other knowledge forms that are affective and embodied. It’s important to note that her weavings are not merely data visualization. Instead they are an interpretative recontextualisation of the datascape as a way to speak beyond binaries, a way to fashion a subversive lexicon that is haptic and relational rather than representational. She has participated in national and international art residencies and exhibitions including Banff Center for the Arts Creativity (CA), and Pocoapoco in Mexico. In 2022, she completed an arts fellowship at Wildseed Center for Art & Activism, a project birthed by Black Lives Matter activists who hope to build an enduring space that could cultivate the most transformative and radical ideas from Canada’s diverse Black communities and beyond.
Abigail Toll
(EN/DE)
Abigail Toll (she/her) is a British experimental music artist based in Berlin who makes ambient, psychoacoustic soundworlds. Her artistic research focuses on data aesthetics and harmonic chaos as a mode for critical thinking, often in collaboration with musicians, artists and writers.Matrices of Vision is the title of her debut record, released on Shelter Press in August 2023, which she composed during her Masters in Electroacoustic Composition at the KMH, Stockholm. It is based on a dataset which details the (in)accessibility to higher education in Sweden across seven decades and reveals the complexities around representation. In 2022, the piece premiered as an ensemble performance featuring Lucy Railton, Rebecca Lane and Evelyn Saylor, and took place at the Klosterruine in Berlin which was organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Toll’s work and performances have also been shown at Kunsthalle Gent; Pawilon, Posnan; Volksbühne Berlin among others.
In this special site-specific installation between visual artist Maria Braune and multidisciplinary collaborators Hannelore Braisch and 11v151131_m06, the three artists dissolve, blossom and resemble each others works through HOLON’s physical and digital portal.
Flowing forms, tentacles outstretched, Braune’s physical sculpture crawls into the interfaces of Braisch and 11v151131_m06’s virtual worlds where it develops, modifies and reappears optically on the other side. Like the transition from air to water, the artists compensate for what each cannot replace in both spheres, blurring the barriers between what is tangible in both.
In this special site-specific installation between visual artist Maria Braune and multidisciplinary collaborators Hannelore Braisch and 11v151131_m06, the three artists dissolve, blossom and resemble each others works through HOLON’s physical and digital portal.
Flowing forms, tentacles outstretched, Braune’s physical sculpture crawls into the interfaces of Braisch and 11v151131_m06’s virtual worlds where it develops, modifies and reappears optically on the other side. Like the transition from air to water, the artists compensate for what each cannot replace in both spheres, blurring the barriers between what is tangible in both.
In this special site-specific installation between visual artist Maria Braune and multidisciplinary collaborators Hannelore Braisch and 11v151131_m06, the three artists dissolve, blossom and resemble each others works through HOLON’s physical and digital portal.
Flowing forms, tentacles outstretched, Braune’s physical sculpture crawls into the interfaces of Braisch and 11v151131_m06’s virtual worlds where it develops, modifies and reappears optically on the other side. Like the transition from air to water, the artists compensate for what each cannot replace in both spheres, blurring the barriers between what is tangible in both.
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