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

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