Ioana Vreme Moser (Artist Talk)
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Fri May 30 | de Brakke Grond
Ioana Vreme Moser is a Romanian sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation. In her practice, she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, synthesised sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on electronics' history, production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world.
Title of talk: Form for Fluid Computer
During her artist talk, she will present an intimate visual essay exploring an alternative history of computer hardware by reviving fluidics, a mid-20th-century innovation. Fluidics is a technology lost in history. To operate, it requires only simple fluid matter guided by natural phenomena. Much like its mineral counterpart: electronics, fluidics builds circuits for computing. This talk follows the seductive forms that fluidic circuits assume, forms that can reimagine the morphologies of our current electronic machines. These alluring curvilinear morphologies swirl, whistle and pulse almost in defiance to the rectangular circuit boards that dominate our digital machines and their histories. Focusing on fluidics as a future alternative to electronics this talk will reveal a parallel history in which technology tunes to natural cycles rather than overrides them.
About the speaker
Amongst others, Ioana has performed and exhibited at the National Gallery of Denmark (DK), singuhr (DE), Klang Moore Schopfe (CH), Fonderie Darling (CA), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE); Vancouver New Music (CA), Manifesta 14 (XK); SFX - Sound Effects Seoul (KR), Ars Electronica (AT), Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Krakow (PL); Simultan Festival (RO); Eigen+Art Lab - Transmediale, Berlin (DE).
