ISOLABS – EMBEDDED S3 (Shamans, Scientists, and Sorcerers) – ANTEPRIMA

Bios

Jan Jelinek (DE) is a transformer of lost and found sounds, who turns rare musical samples and field recordings into distinctly absorbing, complexly textured abstract creations. An artist of collage and processing, he remains on a conceptual quest for sonic interrelation and metamorphosis, navigating through art-house-house to dulcet experimental sound designed narratives which can be heard across a body of work going back more than 20 years.He also operates under the names Farben, Gramm and The Exposures and is the founder of the German record label Faitiche.

AGF (FI) is an audio sculptress, composer, sound art facilitator, producer & intersectional feminist networker. She published more than 30 long form records, countless mixed media projects and organised sound interventions with others around the globe. She/her weaves deconstructed language, field recordings, low frequencies, disembodied voices, post-club aesthetics, interwoven a-rhythmical patterns into dense sonic feminist technologies.

Saša Spačal MA, a postmedia artist, merges living systems research with contemporary art, emphasising the interconnectedness of the environment-culture continuum within planetary metabolisms. Her artistic endeavours include developing caring biotechnological methodologies and interfaces that engage with both organic and mineral soil agents. In parallel, she explores the fragility of posthuman scenarios, intricately weaving mechanical, digital, and organic logics within the realms of contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics.

Her works were presented at venues such as ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe [DE], Ars Electronica [AT], Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona – CCCB [ES], Laboratoria Art & Science Foundation / New Tretyakov Gallery [RUS], National Art Museum of China [CHN], Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova [SI], Onassis Cultural Centre Athens [GR], Transmediale Festival [DE], GHMP Prague City Gallery [CZ], Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana [SI], Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo [ES], Perm Museum of Contemporary Art [RUS], Chronos Art Centre [CHN], Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb [CRO], Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina [SRB]. She received awards and nominations Ars Electronica Starts Prize [2021], Japan Media Art Award [2020], New Technological Art Award [2019], New Aesthetica Prize [2020], Prix Cube [2015] and Prix Ars Electronica [2015].

beepblip (Ida Hiršenfelder, SI) is a sound artist and archivist. She makes immersive bleepy psychogeographical soundscapes with analogue electronics, DIY and modular synths, field recordings and computer manipulations. She is interested in bioacoustics, experimental music and sound spatialisation.

QOA (AR) works with listening as a tool to tune in with the environment around us and our own being, centering on the materiality of sound as a vibrational existence that occupy, move, and traverse the air around us. They generate expanded listening bodily experiences. Their sound ranges from minimal frequencies, processed field recordings of natural environments, live sampling of acoustic objects such as stones & branches, spoken word, synthesis & rhythmic spectral convolutions, creating an expanded listening experience that invites to immerse oneself in a floating time.

Primeiro (AR) intricately weaves ethereal tones and floaty arpeggios into a meticulously crafted sonic tapestry. His music is an immersive experience that transcends traditional genres, delving into the realms of ambient and beyond.

Tilen Sepič (SI) is a multidisciplinary designer, new media artist and promoter of open source culture. His experience with light is manifesting in light-design objects, IOT design, product photography and sound-light installations. Currently he is developing a practice on research and development of his own products in fields of light design and sound-light installations.