Sofian Audry & TeZ^CA/QC+IT/NL

Sofian Audry is an artist, scholar, Professor of Interactive Media within the School of Media at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Their work is inspired from artificial intelligence, artificial life, biology and cognitive sciences. Their computational artistic practice branches through multiple media including robotics, interactive installations, immersive environments, physical computing interventions, internet art, and electronic literature.

Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) is an Italian interdisciplinary artist and independent researcher, living and working in Amsterdam. He uses technology as a means to explore perceptual effects and the relationship between sound, light and space. He focuses primarily on generative compositions with spatialized sound for live performances and installations. In his works he adopts custom developed software and hardware, featuring original techniques of sonification and visualization to investigate and magnify subtle vibrational phenomena.

Sofian Audry & TeZ ^CA/QC+IT/NL — Xenolalia

Generative installation, between bio-art and artificial intelligence. Xenolalia features a self-organizing artificial neural network and a colony of microorganisms in a symbiotic feedback loop in which they collaborate to generate a speculative alphabet. The work examines perceptual, cognitive, and communicative mechanisms of the human-living-machine through an installation that mixes bio-art and artificial intelligence.