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I am _new_media_artist living in Berlin, Germany since 2016.

I was born in Ireland, studied a PhD in France and ended up in Brazil for many years... via a somewhat prolonged adventure in the Amazon jungle in Guyana and Venezuela.

I have been exploring new media art and technology for many years and built my first touchless piano in 2005. At that time, motion-tracking interfaces became a focus, and I have iterated through a number of prototypes since then. In 2008, Trinity College Dublin was where I formalised my education in the art field, through the renowned Masters in Music & Media Technologies. I specialised in interactive performance and composition.

With a hybrid background in new media arts, composition and science, interdisciplinarity is my playing field. My works bridge participatory/collaborative cultures and digital environments. Interactivity is the medium I use to probe the blurring boundaries between performer/audience and live sound/visuals. I blend emergent media and technology with visual art, electroacoustic composition and the performing arts.

Recently, I have also contributed to the education sector by bringing new media art seminars and workshops to secondary schools and universities.

14 Dec 2018 Academics on the Move

Touro College, Berlin, Germany

A sound installation realised with Klara Ronzheimer and Emma Tordoff for Academics on the Move 2018 - an event which critically examines historical as well as current perceptions and discourses about academics who, due to institutional, structural or political constraints, were forced to leave their home country and seek exile elsewhere. In collabration with Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.

14-16 Nov 2018 Emerging Media in performative Spaces

HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland.

A seminar that looked at emerging media and its use and inclusion in performative space. The characteristics of interactivity, embodiment, and the human body as post biological were discussed.

8-9 June 2018 Dis-Connect

Üfer Studios, Berlin, Germany
A contemporary dance theater about the fundamental human needs attachment and separation

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19-20 May 2018 La Femme

Blue Tap Theater, Berlin, Germany
True stories of women and their journeys of self-discovery, hardship, perseverance and triumph.

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12 May 2018 BodyText

International Theatre Festival, Bergama, Turkey

Many opponents of the Iranian regime rely on graffiti as one of the few uncontrollable methods to express their opinion. A production by Modjgan Hashemian in co-production with Akademie der Künste and STUDIO Я.

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1-2 Feb 2018 BodyText

Gorki Theater. Berlin, Germany
An Iranian-German dance production presented as part of "Uncertain States - Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency" project. Link to site>>

22-26 Jan 2018 Workshop: Sensorial data using Arduino

HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland
A workshop for Batchelor students in Interactive Performance in the use of arduino and a broad range of sensors for analogic and digital performance projects. The final project resulted in the creation of a Rube Goldberg machine.

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23-25 Jan 2018 Workshop: Motion-Tracked Performance

HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland
A workshop for masters students of Scenography to introduce motion-tracking for live performances and installations.

30 Nov 1 - Dec 2017 BodyText

Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany

The dance piece bodytext was developed by Berlin-based choreographer Modjgan Hashemian along with Ashkan Afsharian, Kaveh Ghaemi and Elahe Moonessi. Handwriting plays an important role in the upheavals worldwide. Many opponents of the Iranian regime rely on graffiti as one of the few uncontrollable methods to express their opinion.

26 Oct 2017

Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

Installation with Nadia Kaabi-Linke - Versiegelte Zeit ("Sealed Time")
An interactive subsonic 3-seat bench.

13 Oct 2017 Human Meets Digital

Volvo Art sessions 2017 Digital, Zurich, Switzerland
A motion-tracked dance performance as part of Volvo Art sessions 2017 performed at the Schifbau. video>>

11 Aug 2017 Hacking the real World: DIY Sensory systems with Arduino
Isadora Werkstatt, Berlin 2017. Ufer Studios, Berlin.
Create your own interactive sensory system and interface them to your computer using inexpensive sensors, an Arduino, to get the data into your computer use it to interactively manipulate audio and video. Link to site

1-3 Dec 2016 BodyText

Gorki Theater. Berlin, Germany
An Iranian-German dance production presented as part of "Uncertain States - Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency" project. Link to site

29-30 Nov 2016 BodyText

Akademie der Kunst. Berlin, Germany
An Iranian-German dance production presented as part of "Uncertain States - Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency" project.

21 Mar 2016 The Wishing Tree Exhibition

Nova Galeria. Campinas, Brazil
On-going interactive sound and visual artwork with artists collective from Brazil and India.

22 Oct 2015 The Wishing Tree - Exhibition

Performing Arts Center, Sommerville, New Zealand
On- going interactive sound and visual artwork with artists collective from Brazil and India.

10-12 Dec 2015 Sound-Art Installation

Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
"Media as a Cultural Bridge: TV, Print, Radio, Internet between Germany and Turkey"

20-21 Nov 2015 Winner at Hacking the [Dancing] Body

Prague, Czech Republic
International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Dancer as Sound/Visual Composer.

12 Sep 2015 Alterborn

Blackout Festival 2015, Basel, Switzerland

Contemporary dance performance with Interactive sound and visuals. Invited artist.

30 May 2015 Live Electronic Performance

Solo electroacoustic performance with live sound processing. Support to Hoof & Mouth concert.

Kulturzentrum Lagerhaus, Bremen Germany.

28 Nov 2014 Dancestoned

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Tribal dance performance with live generative visuals. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.

22 July 2014 Siest du Mich?

Haus am Park, Bremen, Germany

A dance/theatre/audio/visual production directed by Christine Witte in collaboration with Academy and Quartier GmbH.

28–30 May, 2014 New Beginnings

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance and interactive media performance, directed by Özen Odag.

03–05 Apr 2013 ! H e l l

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance performance organized by the Oriental Dance Club. Live generative visuals and sound. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.

23 Nov 2013 Dancestoned

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance work in conjunction with live generative visuals. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.

9 July 2013 Algorithmic Music and Art

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Live performance for the Modern Mathematics International Summer School.

5–6 July 2012 CoraMesophyll

Arts and Technology Research Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

An experimental physical–theatre performance directed and choreographed by Cindy Cummings. Live audio–visuals generated using motion–tracking technologies and biometric data processing.

12 March 2012 The Wishing Tree

Professor João de Meira School, Guimarães, Portugal, and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (UNICAMP).

A transcultural interactive installation and accompanying workshop which integrated art education teachers and students between 10–12 years in Brazil and Portugal. Collaboration with SESI (Serviço Social da Indústria), Campinas, Brazil,

10 Feb 2012 Beyond The Bubble

Kult Theater, Bremen, Germany

European Musical Academy and Ballettschule Jaqueline Davenport in conjunction with dancers and professional musical artists from various Bremen dance institutions and dance schools. Director Joèl Detiège.

12 December 2011 Interactive Dance Perfomance

Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany

Visual Art and Sound. Director: Dr. Özen Odag, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.

19 Nov 2011 Dancestoned

Theaterspace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

Contemporary dance work in conjunction with live generative visuals. Choreographer: Veneta Gerganova.

24 Aug – 16 Sept 2011 G–Spots: Storming

AIR/HMC, MAVF, and Library Thoughts, exhibition, Budapest, Hungary

Collective installation. Curator: Beata Szechy – HMC, Istvan Sziranyi (president of the Hungarian BookArt Association).

31 May – 02 June 2011 Stillness

Theaterspace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

A contemporary dance performance. Sound design and visual production of dance performance. Choreographer/Director: Özen Odag.

23 April 2010 Leather Ice

Contemporary Music Centre New Music Marathon (CMC),

Limerick, Ireland

Electroacoustic performance: piano, cello, violin, flute, vocal and electronics.

05 and 12 Sept 2010 G–Spots

Casa das Caldeiras exhibition centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil

An interactive multimedia technology art installation.

10 May 2010 Bwaajige Ngwaagan (Dreamcatcher)

TheaterSpace, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

What if the dancer could compose the music?

29 April 2010 From Drums To Light

Beckett Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

A live interactive music composition for dance.

13–18 Nov 2009 An Interactive technology art installation Entertainment=Emotion, Benasque, Spain

International congress in communication and media psychology.

13 June 2009 Touchless Sensorial Interfaces

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil.

Systemic Poetics and Interactive Music. Interface development used in the PhD thesis of Dr. Paulo C. Teles.

12 Sept 1997 Portraits of Lunacy

Campinas City Museum, Campinas, Brazil

"It is the Others who are Crazy". Collective multimedia exhibition and visual art Installation in collaboration with local asylum.

1997 Os Loucos sao os outros

Sibgraph – 1997, México City

"It is the Others who are Crazy". Multimidia Exhibition and Visual Art Installation in collaboration with Alessandra Meleiro.

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