Thomas Köner's is a media artist and musician who focuses on combining visual and auditory experiences. His sound works, released on labels such as Mille Plateaux and Barooni, are densely layered, and subtle, encouraging intensive and physical listening.
Swiss artist Pe Lang uses the kinetics of sound for intricate aural explorations involving different sets of devices and objects as his triggers. His body of work could be experienced as part of numerous international festivals and exhibitions.
Rachida Ziani is a French artist creating sound installations and performances with electricity. Together with Dewi de Vree she developed Elektrolab, a series of sound installations and performances based on electrochemical principles.
artificiel is a digital arts group based in Montreal, featuring Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy and a number of regular collaborators. Together, they manipulate concepts and articulate the results via new media, music, and video, the results often appearing in the form of performances and installations.
Julien Roy is a musician and composer who forms the core of the Canadian digital arts group artificiel together with Alexandre Burton. He makes and produces music that ranges from serious music to more danceable rhythms.
Alexander Burton forms the core of the Canadian digital arts group artificiel together with Julien Roy. In addition to this Burton also makes solo projects and art in other collaborative contexts. His work is regularly presented in international new media and music events.
La Chambre Des Machines gives a new context to old alarm clocks and the Intonarumori – originally developed by Italian futurist Luigi Russolo at the beginning of the 20th century – through meticulous and highly original playing techniques.
aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) is one of China's foremost digital artists, bloggers and free culture developers. In 2006 he founded the Chinese take on the blog we-make-money-not-art: We Need Money Not Art. Born in 1984 in Xi'an City, he now resides in Beijing.
Having been invited to Documenta in 1997 and 2002, Feng Mengbo is recognised as one of China's leading media artists. As well as expressing socio-political critiques Mengbo's work negotiates intensely personal subject matter. His aesthetics are defined by the style, content and cultural implications of video games.
The experimental artist and musician Benjamin Laurent Aman is founder of the acclaimed label Razzle Dazzle and belongs to the duo Crystal Plumage. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
