2024-09-27, 23:00–23:30 (Europe/Zurich), Hallenecke
The media artist duo nox&honig (kathrin hunze & thomas hack) focuses on generative real-time systems which embody complex interactions. Their works analyse the boundaries and similarities of artificial and natural systems. Are you a happy mesh? is an audiovisual performance that explores the concept of the "happy virtual body" and is part of the "Data Me" series that investigates post-digital ways of life of nature, human and machine in digital space.
Kathrin Hunze is media artist, artistic researcher and lecturer based in Berlin. She creates video works, installations and performances at the intersections of different forms of staging in the context of the moving image with new media. Her artistic research focuses on the exploration of processes, mechanisms and ethical aspects of new technologies and their effects in complex systems. She graduated with distinction of the Berlin University of the Arts and has a BA in communication design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She is board member of the Media Art Association Berlin and part of the collectives nox&honig a raumperspektive.
She received scholarships from Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn 2022 and Germany Federal Ministry of Education & Research 2018/2019 and was artist in residence at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology 2023, »Q21/Paraflows«, Vienna 2021 and at the Institute for Electronic Music & Acoustics, Graz 2019.
Her works were presented at Centre Pompidou, World of Networks, Paris; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Solo); Museum of Nordic Digital Art/Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Kopenhagen 2022; Roboexotica Linz; Q21 Museumquartier, Data Me: Data Sugar, Vienna (Solo); Ars Electronica Keplar Garden, CrossPerception, Linz 2020, New York Hall of Science, Infinite Potentials Part II, New York City; Helmut Newton Museum, Biologie und Bauen, Berlin 2018. She performed at Panke Gallery, Alte Münze, Silent Green, Berlin 2023 und 2020; Naturkunde Museum, PlantiSonics, Berlin; Soundstack, London, UK, 2019; CTM Vorspiel, Berlin 2018.
Thomas Hack has studied Theoretical Physics in Bonn and Hamburg, where he did his PhD. After being a Postdoc in Hamburg, Genoa and Leipzig, he specialised in Data Science and Machine Learning. Together with Kathrin Hunze he is pursuing generative projects at the interface of science and art.