Matteo Marangoni (Artist Talk)
he/him
Sat May 31 | de Brakke Grond
Matteo Marangoni is an artist and community organiser interested in sonic rituals, DIY media and applied utopianism. His artistic practice focuses on creating spatial experiences probing the relationship between subject and object. His performances and installations present physical processes, sensory phenomena and machines in ways that are both musical and theatrical. He works with DIY electronics, digital systems, robotics, architectural spaces, humans and other life forms. With these elements he composes poetic rituals addressing nature and technology, materiality and transcendence, the absurd, curiosity, invention and contemplation. He is a founding member of iii (instrument inventors initiative).
Title of talk: Chorusing Symbionts
During his artist talk, Marangoni will dive deeper into the project Chorusing Symbionts, investigating the possibility of interspecies music bridging the worlds of humans, robots and animals within the framework of ecoacoustics. The project is inspired by current research in the field of artificial intelligence and bioacoustics, and more specifically machine learning applied to animal communication. It proposes a type of embodied and sensorial science-fiction in which new artificial creatures are bred to evolve organically in a symbiotic relationship with their naturally evolved counterparts.
