Cross Pollination

• Myra-Ida & Marije - Body Extensions, Algorithms, and Interactive Performance

  Hello everyone, as promised here is episode two of our short season 5 featuring Myra-Ida van der Veen & Marije Baalman. We talk about extending the body, experimenting with interactions, the connections between medical research and art, and more. Myra-Ida is working in the field of multimedia performance, electroacoustic instrument building and vocal practice. She is focused on the interactions between the body and the different senses, sound, physical computing and building acoustic-electronic instruments. She experiments and composes experiences where performance, live electronics, singing, poetry, visual-stages and smells come together.  In her recent works she explores how multidisciplinary processes can be a way of community care. She seeks to understand how live performances and the shared experience of undergoing a creative process as a collective can bring people together. Marije Baalman is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound and light art, based in Amsterdam. She makes music and music-theatre performances, worked with dancers and has made several installations. Topics that she addresses with her work are the nature of interaction between and entanglement of humans and technology, the influence of algorithms on society and the human experience, and environmental change. In her artistic work she is interested in the realtime components of the work, composing processes, behaviours and interaction modalities. This means that the sonic or visual output depends on realtime interactions of the systems she builds with the performer, the audience, or the environment. To realise her works she mostly uses open source technology (software and hardware) and she is an active contributor to the open source community.  Listen on to hear more about ethical questions of data collection, how you can try and experience what it’s like for someone with tinnitus, and if sometimes a big red button is simply enough! Myra-Ida van der Veen - https://idamyraida.myportfolio.com/ Marije Baalman - https://www.marijebaalman.eu/ Transition music from Eyes Wide Shut by Chetana Pai for Container Mag ------------------------------- iii is an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation, and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network. ⁠https://instrumentinventors.org/⁠

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• Gabey Tjon a Tham & Jeanine Verloop - Alternate Realities, Tool Building, & the More than Human

  Hello everyone, after a long break we are back with a new episode featuring Gabey Tjon a Tham & Jeanine Verloop. We talk about alternate realities, what really is technology, new ways to blow glass, and more. Gabey Tjon a Tham researches the complex systems that occur both in nature and in our digital world and how they affect each other through ever evolving processes. These principles are explored through audiovisual installations that are balancing between virtual and analog realities. By acquiring cross-disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences and computer science she finds connections between the natural and artificial in our anthropocentric environment. Her artistic practice revolves around the question: How natural is nature in our current time? In her current practice she is focusing on working from location-specific experiences to reflect directly on environments where agents function with their own time cycles and behaviour, influencing a living system in becoming. Jeanine Verloop is a Dutch, Rotterdam based visual artist, that creates multimedia and kinetic sculptures and currently works predominantly with Borosilicate glass. In her work Jeanine explores how technology expands, shapes, and limits imagination. By challenging the conventional perception of machines as powerful and indestructible, she seeks to embrace vulnerability, malfunction, and destruction. During exhibitions her glass machines seem to malfunction of self-destruct. She sees this as a deconstructive performance where the machine takes on the role of the performer, and she the assistant. In her recent works, Jeanine is incorporating various sensors, inviting the audience to engage and immerse themselves in a parallel reality where technology has taken an alternative path. At iii Jeanine was working on a new installation with the name Chime that utilises the fragile and flexible nature of glass and resonance to generate movement.  Listen on to hear more about how mechanical cameras perceive our world, why a pottery wheel can help you with precise glass work, and how sometimes beauty over function can be interesting. Gabey Tjon a Tham - https://www.gabeytjonatham.com/ Jeanine Verloop - https://jannetjejeanine.nl/nl/ Transition Music - Airboene Landscapes by Gabey Tjon a Tham ------------------------------- iii is an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation, and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network. ⁠https://instrumentinventors.org/⁠ If you like this podcast, please give us a rating and subscribe so you can keep up with new episodes. :)

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• Ahnjili ZhuParris & Jan Zuiderveld - Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Objects & Algorithmic Violence

  I know it’s been just a week since our last episode, but as a little gift to you for the holidays, we are already back! My guests today are Ahnjili ZhuParris, who runs Generative AI workshops at iii, and Jan Zuiderveld, the winner of the iii residency award 2023. We talk about Artificial Intelligence, whether cities will become less relevant, predictive policing, and more. Ahnjili is a machine learning engineer, Ph.D. candidate, artist, and science communicator currently working at an AI startup that specializes in developing deep learning models for facial augmentation. Ahnjili’s academic research centers around the development of biomarkers for monitoring mental and physical well-being using smartphones and wearables, with a particular focus on their application in clinical trials. Ahnjili's artistic research and science communication efforts are dedicated to raising awareness about A.I. and algorithmic violence, which encompasses the violence that may arise from or be justified by automated decision-making systems. Through her work, Ahnjili aims to educate the public and promote discussions about the ethical implications of these technologies in our society. Jan Zuiderveld is an artist and technologist with a rich academic background, including degrees in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Neuropsychology, Artificial Intelligence and ArtScience. Having led a machine learning team specializing in advanced speech-to-intent systems and hands-on experience as both a researcher and an engineer in the field of generative AI, he brings a multifaceted perspective to his work. In his artistic endeavors, Jan explores the intersection of technology and life, creating interactive installations that invite reflection on the essence of being. His projects, ranging from a collaborative photocopier to a coffee machine with an existential crisis, aim to endow objects with a spark of life, challenging our perceptions of existence. Jan's approach is characterized by a playful engagement with artificial intelligence, seeking to emulate the behaviors of living beings in a way that resonates with and surprises both himself and his audience, blurring the lines between the animate and the inanimate Listen on to hear more about fashion police drones, what a coffee machine thinks about consciousness, and what it means to be alive! You won’t regret it. :) Ahnjili Zhuparris - https://www.artificialnouveau.com/  Jan Zuiderveld - https://warana.xyz/ , https://www.instagram.com/_warana/ ------------------------------- iii is an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation, and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network. https://instrumentinventors.org/ If you like this podcast, please give us a rating and subscribe so you can keep up with new episodes. :)

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• Stephanie Castonguay & Mariska de Groot - Failure, the Drive to Invent, & Reimagining the Obsolete

  Hello friends! After a long break, it’s finally time to get started with season 4 of Cross Pollination. My guests today were Stephanie Castonguay & Mariska de Groot and it was a really fun conversation! Stephanie came to iii from October to November 2023 as part of the residency exchange program with Perte de Signal in Montreal and Mariska has been an iii member since 2013. Intrigued by the phenomena and history of optical sound, Mariska de Groot (1982, NL) makes and performs comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations which explore this principle in new ways. Her work often has a reference to media inventions from the past, with which she aims to excite a multi-sensorial and phenomenological experiences in light, sound, movement, and space. Mariska obtained her BA in graphic design in Arnhem (2000-2005) and received her master's diploma at the ArtScience interfaculty in 2012. She has now presented her work at several national and international events Fueled by an insatiable curiosity for experimentation, Stephanie’s artistic journey explores sound matter through installation, performance, experimental electronic instrument making, and composition. Rooted in materiality and process, she transforms discarded machines into vessels of resonance, glitches, and latent sonorities. By translating the nuances of the sensory world, her work seeks to unveil the hidden facets of our subtle environment, bridging the realms of perception and the imperceptible. During her residency, Stephanie worked on “liminal.synthesis” which delves into the materiality of light and sound, refining energy transduction to convert light into audible phenomena.  We talk about DIY culture, the fear of failure, reimagining objects, connecting light and sound, and more. Listen on to hear more about failure as a choice, new ways to use your grandmother’s lace or crochet, and what objects they want to reimagine next! Stephanie Castonguay - https://www.stephaniecastonguay.com/ Mariska de Groot - https://www.mariskadegroot.com/ ------------------------------- iii is an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation, and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network. https://instrumentinventors.org/ If you like this podcast, please give us a rating and subscribe so you can keep up with new episodes. :) The transition music in this episode is by Stephanie Castonguay and the title of this version is “Philter”. In its original version, the sound piece is separated into 4 soundtracks. During the exhibition, each soundtrack was translated into light waves (in the glass/light installation presented at Flipchart). Visitors wore headphones connected to a circuit with an amplified solar sensor which translated light into sound. In this way, you could recreate your own soundtrack by moving the sensors near the lights.

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• Dave Murray-Rust, Myriam Bleau & Nien-Tzu Weng - Machine Learning, Interfaces, & the Body

  Happy summer everyone, we are back with a new episode! My guests today are Dave Murray-Rust, Myriam Bleau, and Nien-Tzu Weng who are all currently working on and finishing up residencies at iii. Dave, in his creative practice, engages with interactions between people and technology through installations and performance. His pieces layer together physical phenomena and animate electronics to create experiences, exploring questions of agency, voice, interface and correspondence. He is an Associate Professor at TU Delft working in human-algorithm interaction - exploring the messy terrain between people, data and things through a combination of making and thinking.  Myriam is interested in the performative, both as a codified cultural manifestation, and as an embodied reenactment of symbolic systems through human and non-human agencies, including machine learning. Her hybrid practice explores porous spaces between the physical and the virtual world, between the natural and the synthetic. She is is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Nien-Tzu is curious about the relationship between movement and new media practices, and plays with the balance between reality and fantasy. She uses light and multimedia in order to play with perspective, perceiving performance as a process of transmitting dialogues between inner and outer space, where presence and image builds multiple, overlapping conceptions of time. She is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary dance artist and lighting designer based in Montreal. We talk about their current projects and some previous ones, machine learning, agency, interfaces, using sound and light in different ways, and the pervasiveness of technology. Listen on to hear more about what it’s like to have a speaker in your mouth, whether it’s fair to say the machines really understand or learn, and if machine learning really feels like an optimisation not. This was a great conversation and we found so many overlaps between all of their work which allowed room for a lot of reflection. If any of the themes mentioned above spark your interest, make sure you give this episode a listen. :) Dave Murray-Rust - http://dave.murray-rust.org/ Myriam Bleau - http://www.myriambleau.com/ Nien-Tzu Weng - https://www.nientzuweng.com/ ------------------------------- iii is an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation, and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network. https://instrumentinventors.org/

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