Shingo Inao's sound art and performances are deeply connected to his own body. Not only do the acoustic realities of his physical moves form the basis of his complex audio-experiments. He moreover invents his own sensor-equipped instruments and recording devices hands-on.
Since the Berlin architecture office raumlaborberlin was founded in 1999 its nine members have been dedicating themselves to exploring how public space can be activated experimentally. For transmediale.10 raumlaborberlin have designed and built the structure of the Futures Exchange situated in the foyer of the House of World Cultures: part research-station, part media-lab, part docking-module, this structure also embodies what the collective (whose name translates as spacelab) stands for itself.
Drew Hemment is an artist, curator and researcher. He is director and founder of the FutureEverything Festival in Manchester, and Assistant Director of Imagination Lancaster at Lancaster University.
