Mathieu Le Sourd, also known as Maotik, is a French digital artist that focuses on immersive experiences, interactive installations and audiovisual performances. He holds a Bachelor degree in Digital Media Production from the London Institute and a(…) +
Mathieu Le Sourd (fr)
Mathieu Le Sourd (fr)
Mathieu Le Sourd, also known as Maotik, is a French digital artist that focuses on immersive experiences, interactive installations and audiovisual performances. He holds a Bachelor degree in Digital Media Production from the London Institute and a Master Degree in Digital Arts (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).
Since 2011, his works have been exhibited in various festivals and institutions worldwide, such as Mutek Festival, Live cinema in Rio, Signal Festival in Prague, the British Film Institute in London, ARS Electronica in Linz, Miraikan Science Museum in Tokyo, B39 in Seoul and Funkhaus in Berlin.
Known for his dome immersive performances, Le Sourd designs his own audiovisual tools, generating real-time visual content from algorithms and creating 3D worlds to transform perceptions of space. Beside his solo career, he often collaborates with other disciplines such as music, dance, theatre, architecture and scientists in order to continue his research into the relationship between arts and technology. He was part of the team who created the visual set design for Nine Inch Nails latest world tour and has most recently been collaborating with renewed brands such as Hermes or Chanel.
Maotik recently moved to Berlin where he continues his artistic research by taking part in the art residency organized between Sonar+D and Factory Berlin. He has also joined CODE university where he worked as a professor giving lectures about interactive design, generative design, augmented and virtual reality environments.
Patrícia J. Reis (b. 1981, Lisbon, Pt) is an installation artist based in Vienna whose practice
encompasses different formats and media to examine the human and non-human relationship with contemporary technology. Through an ongoing investigation(…) +
Patrícia J. Reis (pt)
Patrícia J. Reis (pt)
Patrícia J. Reis (b. 1981, Lisbon, Pt) is an installation artist based in Vienna whose practice
encompasses different formats and media to examine the human and non-human relationship with contemporary technology. Through an ongoing investigation that destabilises the boundaries between gender, science, technology, magic and spiritual beliefs, she explores questions “How do we believe in machines?” and “How technology is shaping us bodily?”. In her complex installations she often appeals to the visitor’s sensoriality in an intimate and sensual way, encouraging them to become active participants.
She studied Painting (ESAD, Superior School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha PT, 2004), Media Art (Master program at the Lusófona University, Lisbon, PT, 2011), and she holds a European Ph.D. in Art (University of Évora, PT, & University of Applied Arts Vienna AT, 2016). Reis was a fellow researcher from National Science Technology Foundation of Portugal (2011-2015). From 2006 to 2012, she was lecturing Photography, Video and Digital Arts at the
Polytechnic Institute of Beja, PT, as a full-time Assistant Professor. Currently she is a post-doc researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (AT) within the framework of the project founded by the Austria Science Fund titled Feminist hacking: building circuits as an artistic practice. Currently she also holds a position as a Senior Artist and Lecturer at the Digital Arts Department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (AT), and she also lectures at the Art University in Linz, (AT).
Since 2012 she is an active member of the feminist art collective Mz* Baltazar Laboratory based in Vienna, (AT) in which she is curating exhibitions and collectively creating and researching on interactive installations on the intersection between art, gender, science and open source technology.
