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I conceptualise and produce performances and installations that include real-time visualisations and sonifications. These include generative visuals, and electroacoustic compositions. I work internationally (and remotely!) for exhibitions and events both in Germany nationally and internationally.​​


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ART IN MOTION



HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland 13-14 Jun 2019



Over eight weeks, professionals from different art disciplines worked with artist Aidan Boyle. We experimented how movement, image, sound, and light can supplement, strengthen and influence each other and how we can enhance this experiment with technology, particularly“Motion Capture”. What if there are no borders between the body and what we hear and see?


Photo by Jos Kuklewski



Devotion



Festival Fécule, Lausanne, Switzerlandd 11 May 2019



"Devotion" is a dance and visual performance exploring the feeling of commitment in our daily lives. The small or big acts of dedication to our family, friends, loved ones, and strangers can give us a feeling of exaltation, but are also often perceived as a burden. The conflict between selfishness and altruism lies at the heart of "Devotion". Directed and choreographed by Veneta Gerganova. Video by RightHereRightNow>>



Academics on the Move



Touro College, Berlin 14 Dec 2018



A sound installation conceptualised for the research-oriented interdisciplinary seminar "Academics on the Move 2018" - an encounter which sought to critically examine 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. Soundbites from interviews with academics were played in the conference space using a drunken walk algorithm. more>>






Emerging Media in Performative Space



HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Holland 14-16 Nov 2018



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.


Photo by Laura Ruß — at silent green Kulturquartier.



Ghid Guidance System



Collaboration with REPLICA, 14 Nov 2018



This is Ghid, a little guidance systems that reacts through visual and audio, and which is the perfect partner for some simple human-human-machine trust exercises. A cool combination of hardware, Max patch, a bit of processing code for the colours and sounds, and training of the machine learning algorithm using Wekinator. Some wheels added so that it may follow us around.


Filmed at Kunstkooperative, Berlin, Germany



Dis-Connect 2018



Üfer Studios, Berlin, 8-9 June 2018



DIS-CONNECT is a contemporary dance theater about the fundamental human needs attachment and separation. The dances are raw images of e​veryday life, telling their own story: Flow-like moments of connection battle with agitating moments of disconnect, displaying the existing antagonism between wanting to belong and wanting to detach. At times, connection arises effortlessly, at times connection is impeded, at times connection is the opposite of what we desire. DIS-CONNECT offers spaces of movement to (re-) discover yourself. Link to Facebook Event>>






bodytext



Gorki Theater, Berlin 1,2 Feb 2018



Handwriting and graffiti play a crucial role in the upheavals around the world. They are used by opponents of regimes as the only method not subject to control of expressing their opinions. Over the last twenty years, calligraphy in Iran has also enjoyed a renaissance, and is one element in much of the graffiti. In the dance performance body text, writing becomes legible and disappears again. The dancers become text bodies themselves – how can the space between the signs be read, and what does it mean if your system of writing is taken away from you? Choreographer: Modjgan Hashemian.


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Volvo Art Sessions 2017



Zurich, 12-13 Oct 2017



Volvo transformed the Zurich shipbuilding site, Schiffbau, on 12-23 October 2017 into a forum for national and international artists, designers and social thinkers. At the opening event, the invited guests experienced an interactive performance of the artist collective from various art forms, which blurred the boundaries between the real and the digital world and thrilled the audience completely. Link to Videoclip>>






Nervous Bench



Kunstmuseum, Bonn. 26 Oct 2017



I co-produced the Nervöse Bank / Nervous Bench (2017) with Nadia Kaabe-Linke. This is a sound installation that is an intervention executed on one of the benches of the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Visitors sitting down on the bench enable a hidden mechanism that will run a compilation of nervous movements — medically referred to as "restless motion disorder" — that have been collected at various transit places and waiting halls in administration offices. The movements are converted in unbearable knocks that are induced onto the three seats of the bench. Each seethes its very own nervous characteristics.



Winner, Hacking The Dancing Body



Prague 2015



Winner at the recent Hacking the dancing Body event. Dancers, hackers, software developers, scientists and inter-media artists gathered together in Prague for a two day long hackathon.

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The Prague Dance Hackathon focused on the re-use of cultural heritage materials in live performance, cross-media storytelling, motion tracking and transformation of data, brain/computer interfaces in performance.


In collaboration with:

Martin Zrcek, Mirka Papajíková and Julia Gleich


see Hackathon page >>



#BLACKOUTFestival BASEL



Basel, Switzerland. Sep 2015



I was invited to perform an interactive work for the Blackout 2015 Festival of live art and sub-cultural experiences. As part of the XPRMNTL CONCERT SERIES: GENRE GUTTER, "Alterborn"


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Siehst Du Mich?



Haus am Park
Bremen, Germany. 31/7/2014



A dance/theatre production in collaboration with Academy and Quartier GmbH. The objective was to bring art to the somewhat underprivileged schools. Activities included sculpture, hiphop and contemporary, dance, music and singing.

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Director/Choreographer: Christine Witte

Production: Quartier gGmbH


Newspaper Article >>




Cora mesophyl



Arts Technology Research Lab
Dublin, Ireland. 2012



An experimental dance-theatre performance using Interactive audio-visuals are generated using motion-tracking technologies and biometric data processing. It was shown in the Arts Technology Research Lab as part of the 10 Days in Dublin Festival.

It is an experimental physical-theatre performance. It is set in a bio-fictional world of genetic manipulation and technological ubiquity, where 'Cora' and 'Jo' are confronted with their deep need for connection within the banality of their daily lives. They must negotiate not only the subjective contours of their encounter but also those play parameters of the fluid environment they inhabit.


Choreographer / Director: Cindy Cummings
Producer / Visuals: Néill O'Dwyer
Co-producer / Stage Manager: Caoimhe Clancy
Co-Producer and Sound Design: Aidan Boyle
Performing Artist / Composer / Dramaturge: Regan O'Brien
Lighting Design: Caroline Norris
Production Assistant: Jan Schneider
Photographer: Karl Burke



Stillness



Theaterspace
Bremen, Germany. 2011



Stillness is a contemporary dance production about moments in which our lives stand still, moments in which we take a breath, moments in which we take a minute or two to clear our minds from our overly-busy present day lives.

It explores moments that are rare today, mostly because we refrain from creating these spaces in our daily routines. The phenomenon of stillness is explored through the art of dance, reactive sound and visuals.


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Director/Choreographer: Özen Odag

Producer & Sound Designer: Aidan Boyle

Co-Prodcucer and Visuals: Neill O'Dwyer


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Dreamcatcher



Samuel Beckett Theatre
Dublin, Ireland. 2010



In Dreamcatcher, the dancer moves through a dream-world, her movements create musical patterns and rhythms, morphing the soundscape and provoking unusual sonic experiences in real-time.


The stage becomes a reactive environment, a virtual touchless instrument. The performer "plays" it, producing sounds that are somewhat unfamiliar to us.


Director / Producer / Sound Design: Aidan Boyle

Choreographer / Director: Özen Odag



G-Spots



Campins, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2009



G-spots is a dynamic and participatory installation based on an interactive sensory platform. The aesthetic angle is focussed on an "energy" context. This energy encompasses all of our behavioural compulsions (Western psychoanalysis) and our "Karma" (Eastern philosophy). In this work we consider the systemic transfer of energy to be the first link between information and matter, under the intersection of Eastern philosophy with Western psychoanalysis.


Co-Director / Producer / Sound Design: Aidan Boyle

Co-Director / Visuals: Paulo Teles