Today Ben Huang is one of the most in-demand DJs in China. After training as a dancer, Huang began to pursue his music career sometimes in the 1990s when club scenes just started to come alive in Peking and Shanghai. Though self-taught he quickly managed to set crucial impulses for these scenes.
FM3 are active members of the Beijing music scene and considered pioneers of electronic music in China. FM3 produce mysterious, meditative and minimalist soundscapes, while subtly adding elements of Chinese folk tradition into a universe abundant in micro-sounds and synthetic glitches.
Martin Messier has a diploma in jazz percussion and a BA in Electroacoustic Composition. Based on strong aptitudes for rhythm, Martin’s aesthetics can be defined as a complex, leftfield and happily strange sound amalgamate constantly playing with construction and deconstruction.
In audiovisual performances and installations Andrea Lange explores the meaning of technologies in relation to our fragile world. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Rebecca Horn.
Ryoji Ikeda’s visual works are emblematic of a future defined and visualised through the lens of digital technologies. In this large-scale audiovisual installation – shown for the first time in Germany – Ikeda makes the imperceptible sea of data that permeates our world, dramatically visible through digital projection.
Julius von Bismarck grew up in Germany and Saudi-Arabia. Considered one of the most innovative young artists in the field he received the 2008 Ars Electronica Golden Nica, for the Image Fulgurator.
Adam Somlai-Fischer is an artist, entrepreneur and architect interested in the cultural qualities of new technologies. He collaborates on interactive art works with software designer and hardware hacker Bengt Sjölén as well as architect and Hertzian space artist Usman Haque.
Founder of the Optofonica laboratory Maurizio Martinucci aka TeZ is an Italian media artist, musician and producer based in Amsterdam. He uses technology to explore synesthesia and the relationship between sound, light and space.