Aarati Akkapeddi is a first-generation, Telugu-American, interdisciplinary artist, coder and educator based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). They combine archival material, code, machine learning and analog techniques (photography & printmaking) to create artwork about intergenerational and collective memory.
Kerstin Ergenzinger is a visual artist working across the fields of installation, electronic arts, sound and drawing. The inextricable relations between body and world, perception and the perceived, sensing and sense making are central themes of her practice. She currently chairs the Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies program at thHe Bauhaus- Universitäty Weimar.
Together with Kiran Kumār and Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari she forms the Sono-Choreographic Collective.
Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari is a composer and artist, working across a broad spectrum of practices to embody and re-ritualise ways of sounding as an alternative mode of being. Exploring a plethora of artistic strategies his work attempts to navigate the physical, political and spiritual turbulences of our world. He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College and concomitantly oscillates between long term artistic and scholarly collaborations.
Together with Kiran Kumār and Kerstin Ergenzinger he forms the Sono-Choreographic Collective.
Matthias Härtig is an engineer-in-the-arts specializing in the development of multimedia, image- and sound-driven environments as a media and video artist. He works as a programmer for interactive formats in dance, performance, and theatre. A founding member of the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau in Dresden, he has been a long-time collaborator at the media art festival CYNETART and its Trans-Media-Labor Hellerau. Härtig has worked with artists and groups such as Frieder Weiß, Johanna Roggan, shotAG, Phase7, Christoph Winkler, and the collective DS-X.org. In 2023, together with Kiraṇ Kumār, he was awarded a Media Art Fellowship at the Theater im Depot in Dortmund for the hybrid dance-technology project (RE)IMAG(IN)ING THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT OF DANCE.
Kiraṇ Kumār is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and writer. His practice holds a curiosity for dis/continuities between premodern and future worlds, as they play out at the intersections of art, science, philosophy and technology. Drawing from academic foundations in mechanical engineering, media art, and dance, as well as embodied yogic-tāntrik practices, he has developed three long-term research cycles to date, comprising works that span across performance, writing and visual art as diverse modes of publication for artistic research. Kiraṇ is currently based in the Auroville bioregion of coastal southern India.
He held a joint media-art fellowship with Matthias Härtig supported by Medienwerk.NRW. Together with Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari and Kerstin Ergenzinger he forms the Sono-Choreographic Collective.
Lucie Tuma, Zurich-born, studied dance, choreography, and applied theatre in Prague, Montpellier, and Giessen. Her work explores dance as time-based sculpture and ecologies of attention. She co-founded the duo Chuck Morris and is part of the curatorial team at Shedhalle Zurich.
