This impulse zooms into inter-species communication happening within our collective bodyminds. The focus of our artistic research project ”as we synch“ lies on the vibroacoustic rhythms of fermenting: how we synchronize through processing and becoming processed. During a year-long residency at LABoral (Studiotopia) and BIONUC, we listened to sonified signals, sounding ferments and gut noise in Asturian cider factories, laboratory cultures and blue cheese caves, working out reocurring patterns while guts engage in evolving ferments. We trained ourselves to attune our gastrointestinal tract to the howls, growls and grumbles of local nutraceutical foods. Via the tactility of vibration motors, called actuators, we rehearsed to co-create a multisensory experience that provokes the intestinal rhythms of audiences to synchronize with Asturian microbes.
The artist duo sikau/pubalova was founded in 2020, exploring the intersection of media arts, speculative research and experimental sound theater. They have been commissioned by Ars Electronica Festival, Science Gallery Bangalore, Climate Week NYC, European Commission, S+T+ARTS, LABoral, IMPAKT, Transmediale, Ensemble Modern and Ligeti Center.
As artist-researcher, Dr. Lea Luka Sikau (she/her) situates herself at the intersection of sound, music theater and media art. As the Curator for Music and Sound Art at the ZKM Hertzlab, Dr. Lea Luka Sikau (she/her) shapes the sonic profile of artistic research and programming, responsible for the artist residency programs and the performance series at KUBUS. Having received a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge for her research on posthumanism, rehearsal ethnography and new opera, she became a Fellow at Harvard University’s Mellon School for Performance Research and was awarded with the Bavarian Cultural Award for her research at MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology. She has worked with Romeo Castellucci, Marina Abramović and Rimini Protokoll.
The artist duo sikau/pubalova was founded in 2020, exploring the intersection of media arts, speculative research and experimental sound theater. They have been commissioned by Ars Electronica Festival, Science Gallery Bangalore, Climate Week NYC, European Commission, S+T+ARTS, LABoral, IMPAKT, Transmediale, Ensemble Modern and Ligeti Center.
Denisa Půbalová (she/her, CZ/NL) is an audiovisual artist, a researcher on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures, a creative coder and a lecturer. She works at the intersections of arts and science.
Exploring microscopic and macroscopic climates, her current research expands from climatic storytelling with diatoms (microalgae), to critical research of the phenomenon of Earth’s digital twin. She works with microorganisms (molds, fungi, diatoms, biofilm). For her artistic research, she worked with Waag Futurelab, Posthuman Art Network CA, and Artbiom Prague.
Together with Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, she forms duo sikau/pubalova, an artistic initiative focusing on embodied multi-sensory encounters within the arts. sikau/pubalova were commissioned by S+T+ARTS, Ars Electronica, BASE Milan, Science Gallery Bengaluru, IMPAKT Utrecht, transmediale Berlin, LABoral, Ensemble Modern, TONALi Hamburg, and ligeti zenter Hamburg.
She is a visual artist in Metanoia Creatives, a collective that focuses on digital animation, generative arts, projection mappings, and large-scale audiovisual installations presented worldwide.
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