Featuring an international panel of leading theorists, makers, and philosophers in architecture, theater, performance, music, and art, the Modern Body Festival symposium spans 3 evenings, from 29 Nov – 1 Dec, exploring this year’s theme, the ‘social’ body. Each session will focus on one of our three states of being: 29 Nov: I, 30 Nov: WE, 1 Dec: THEY
The second evening, November 30: WE, includes 3 lectures, followed by an extended round table with the addition of the artist-architect team that led the day’s workshop. The speakers will talk about their work and open discussions relating to this year’s theme, its context, and the works featured at the festival.
Presenters:
Cocky Eek (NL): How to produce a gap
Dr. Nimish Biloria (NL/IN): InfoMatter: The case of Pro-Active Spatial Environments
Raviv Ganchrow (NL/US): Contextual Circuitry: Towards an Ambient Subjectivity
Round table:
Ludmila Rodrigues (NL/BR)
Satoru Sugihara (US/JP)
Cocky Eek (NL)
Dr. Nimish Biloria (NL/IN)
Raviv Ganchrow (NL/US)
Entrance is open and free for the public.
Symposium
Date
November 30
Time
20:00 – 22:30
Venues
Nutshuis
Module
Symposium
Weblinks
Cocky Eek (NL)
Dr. Nimish Biloria (NL/IN)
Satoru Sugihara
Ludmila Rodrigues
BIOS
Cocky Eek’s (NL) work has been mainly revolving around lightweight spatial compositions and her favorite media are wind and air. This resulted in floating or flying experiments or large, voluminous pneumatic forms that explores human perception where we don’t move through space, but space moves through us. She has presented her work at renown venues and festivals, as V2_’s DEAF – Rotterdam, Ars Electronica Festival – Linz, Le Lieu Unique – Nantes, Oerol Festival -Terschelling, AxS Festival – Los Angeles, ISEA Albuquerque – New Mexico and the Rockbund Art Museum – Shanghai. Besides her own practice she works with FoAM (since 2001) and Schweigman& (since 2012) and she is a core teacher of The ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
Dr. Nimish Biloria (NL/IN) is an Architect and Assistant Professor at Hyperbody, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. After being involved with investigating the inter-relation of Media and Architecture throughout his formative educational years at CEPT in India, he furthered his interests in the interdisciplinary realm at the Architectural Association (UK) where he specialized in the field of Emergent Technologies and Design. He attained a Doctorate at TU Delft with a focus on developing real time adaptive environments. Dr. Biloria is the Research Manager of Hyperbody, and is involved with developing computationally enhanced performative & sustainable architectural and urban design solutions. He specifically seeks a synergistic merger of the fields of computation, material systems, sensing technologies, environmental dynamics and social demographics, and is a proponent of bio-inspired performative design solutions. Dr. Biloria has lectured at prestigious institutes globally, and has presented and published his research in numerous international conferences and magazines.
Raviv Ganchrow’s (NL/US) work researches the interdependencies between sound, place, and listening, aspects of which are explored through installations, writing, and the development of pressure-forming and vibration-sensing technologies. Recent installations examine context-dependent sites of contemporary listening relating to environmental infrasound (Long-Wave Synthesis), mineral piezoelectricity (Quarzbrecciakammer), materiality of radio transmission (Radio Plays Itself & Forecast for Shipping), and anechoic chambers (work in progress). His ongoing Listening Subjects project tests an ambient circuitry whereby audibility, surroundings, and subjectivity are mutually conductive. He has been teaching architectural design in the graduate program at TU Delft and is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, University of the Arts, The Hague.
Satoru Sugihara (US/JP) is a leading computational designer working in the field of architecture, and a faculty member at Southern California Institute of Architecture. In 2012 he founded ATLV, a computational design firm based in Los Angeles. The studio pushes the boundaries of practice and research in contemporary architecture and spatial design, employing algorithms alongside electronic hardware and robotics to seek broader ideas of design, fabrication, and process. Prior to ATLV, Satoru worked as a computational designer at Morphosis Architects engaging in large-scale construction and research projects, and as a researcher in media art and interaction design. He is also the developer of open-source 3D computational design software iGeo. Satoru holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from University of California Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has taught at Architectural Association’s Visiting School, the University of British Columbia, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais, Woodbury University and Tokyo University of the Arts.
Ludmila Rodrigues (NL/BR) is an artist, performer and designer fascinated by human interaction, non-verbal communication and tactile experience. Her works materialize in installations, sets and situations where visitors become actors in a shared, collective exploration. Ludmila has a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Arts by the Artscience Interfaculty, KABK, The Hague. Born in Rio, based in The Netherlands since 2009, Ludmila continues her practice by learning diverse physical techniques to develop body awareness and enrich human communication through her works. Her theses ‘The Body of the Audience’ on the engagement of the public and the relationship between art and audience, has been published by Lambert Academic Published in 2015.