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 first evening, November 29: I, 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:
Joel Ryan (NL/US): The inside-out trombone
Ivan Henriques (NL/BR): Hybrid Forms
Ping-Hsiang Chen (UK/TW), Stelios Manousakis (NL/GR) & Stephanie Pan (NL/US): Finding I/WE/THEY
Round table:
Manuel Jiménez García (UK/ES)
Christina Dahdaleh (UK/JO)
Shih Wei-Chieh (TW)
Joel Ryan (NL/US)
Ivan Henriques (NL/BR)
Ping-Hsiang Chen (UK/TW)
Stelios Manousakis (NL/GR)
Stephanie Pan (NL/US)
Entrance is open and free for the public.
Symposium
Date
November 29
Time
20:00 – 22:30
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Joel Ryan
Ivan Henriques
Ping-Hsiang Chen
Stelios Manousakis
Stephanie Pan
Manuel Jiménez García
Shih Wei-Chieh
BIOS
Spawned in the first generation of artist hackers in San Francisco’s silicon valley, Joel Ryan (NL/US) is a composer, inventor and scientist. Joel moved into music by degrees from physics via philosophy, studying with Herbert Marcuse, Albert Hofstadter, Jose Barroso, Ravi Shankar, Robert Ashley and David Behrman. Ryan sought to bring concreteness to digital electronic media through the intelligent touch of the performer; merging the physical with the digital, he became a pioneer in the design and performance of real-time interactive digital instruments. Formerly a Research Associate at the Lawrence Berkeley Labs of the University of California, Ryan has taught philosophy, physics, and mathematics. He is Emeritus Director of STEIM (which he joined in 1984) and Docent in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory Den Haag. He has performed around the world and has collaborated extensively with composers, musicians and artists such as: Evan Parker, William Forsyth, George Lewis, Steina Vasulka, FM Uitti, Agusti Fernandes, Najib Cherradi, Peter Evans and Sainkho Namtchylak, Jerry Hunt, Michel Waisvisz and ArtAngel.
Ivan Henriques (NL/BR) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working in multimedia installations examining living systems. He explores in his works hybrids of nature and (technological) culture creating new forms of communication between humans and other living organisms. He considers nature as inspiration and a necessary factor in the development of the technological world. Lately he won the Stimuleringsfonds Talent Award 2015-16, Proven Talent Award from Mondriaan Fonds 2015-19, New Face Award from the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival and the Honorary Mention for the [next] Idea, Ars Electronica 2014 amongst other prizes. Henriques also gives lectures and workshops around the globe and his artworks have been shown in relevant art/new media institutions and art collections.
Ping-Hsiang Chen (UK/TW) is an architect and computational designer specializing in parametric design, environmental simulation and multi-media communication in London. Ping-Hsiang completed his RIBA Part 1 and Part2 at AA school of Architecture and has a master degree in Architecture and Digital Media at the University of Westminster, London. He is the co-founder of DEZACT and founder of [IN] Morph Lab, a research based studio where he explores computational design, digital media and fabrication in architecture. He has taught computational design and design studio at Shih Chein University in Taiwan, and AA visiting school in Israel. He is a workshop teaching fellow at Digital Prototyping Lab at Architectural Association School of Architecture and a digital fabrication consultant across UK and Taiwan. His architectural- and art-works have been showcased and exhibited internationally.
Stephanie Pan (NL/US) is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, and maker based in The Hague, specializing in experimental music, new music, and experimental theater. Her work is rooted in the search for pure communication; finding contact with the audience stripped of expectations and distractions, which speaks beyond the conventional limitations and constructs of language. Her work is visceral, passionate and intense, often exploring the limits of the voice and body. Stephanie has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. She holds a Masters in Theatre from DasArts (AHK), BA from UC Berkeley in Music and Applied Mathematics, and First Phase Diploma, with distinction, in Classical Singing from The Royal Conservatory, The Hague. Besides her solo work, she has co-founded several numerous music project, and most recently the intermedial Modern Body Festival.
Stelios Manousakis (GR/NL) is an artist exploring relationships between time, space, body, system, and sound. His work is particularly concerned with the invisible and the ephemeral, and with shaping sensation, perception and experience in time. His practice lies in the convergence zones of art, philosophy, science and engineering; it extends from performances, to environments and interactive installations, to compositions, fixed media pieces, and film music. Besides his solo work, he has co-founded several music and multimedia groups, and most recently the intermedial Modern Body Festival. Stelios studied music and linguistics in Greece, Sonology in the Netherlands, and is currently finishing a PhD in Visual and Performing Arts at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.
Shih Wei-Chieh (TW) is a media artist, e-textile prototype designer and material researcher. He graduated from Media Communication Design of Taipei Shih Chien University in 2010 and now works as an artist and e-textile consultant in Taipei. His work has been presented in many international platforms and festivals such as CTM Festival Berlin, SXSW Festival Texas, Adafruit NYU, Youfab Festival Tokyo. His material practice focuses on stretchable circuits for textiles, printed circuits, photoelectric chemicals and laser processing of materials. Following a funded 2-month long textile research residency in Mexico and 6-month long fair-trade collaboration with a local NGO (Bandui Lab) and Aztec groups 2013, he was inspired to work with traditional Taiwanese textile communities, and to explore the relation between traditional textile techniques, society, and new materials through technology.
Manuel Jiménez García (UK/ES) is currently Co-Director of MereoLab Research Lab at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL)(London). He is also Course Master of Research Cluster 4 at the MArch Graduate Architectural Design (GAD) and Unit Master of MArch Unit 19; in addition, Manuel is curator of the Bartlett Computational Plexus, Coordinator of the BPro Skills Elective Module and Programme Director at the Architectural Association’s Visiting School in Madrid (AAVSM). He has taught and run workshops at Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory (AADRL, London), Polytechnic University of Architecture (Madrid), European University Madrid, and L’École Spéciale d’Architecture (Paris). Manuel is the co-founder of Ctrl+M and madMdesign, an architecture practice based in London. He has also worked internationally as an architect for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Minimaforms, Amid(cero9) and Naja & deOstos. His work has been featured widely in Acadia 2012 (San Francisco), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (London), X Bienal Española de Arquitectura (Spain), and Rethinking the Human in Technology Driven Architecture 2011 (Greece).
Christina Dahdaleh (UK/JO) is a passionate and enthusiastic designer. She graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL-London) with a Masters in Architecture, under Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos, 2015. She holds first class honours for her Bachelor Degree in Architecture from the Kent School of Architecture, 2012. She currently teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, is program coordinator at the AA Visiting School of Madrid, and teaches a masters workshop at UEM. Christina also coordinates the Bartlett Plexus lecture series, an initiative to bring together the creative talent of different disciplines related to computation. Aside from teaching, she is part of the research team at MadMDesign (UK), and has worked at RTKL (UK), Guy Holloway architects (UK), Faris and Faris Architects (Jordan) and Jaafar Toukan Architecture (Jordan).