Troika

London, United Kingdom

Troika is a London based studio founded by Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel who are widely known for their experimental practise, sculptures, installations and projects that provoke and employ a cross-disciplinary approach and intersect between design, architecture, and contemporary installation.

They met while studying at the Royal College of Art and subsequently started their studio in 2003, emerging as an integrated practice that creates work collectively through detailed research, dialogue and experiment.

Often merging technology with their projects as a point of departure but also to actify their installations, their work explores the intersection of scientific thought, observation and human experience, and is driven by a strong interest in the organisation and physical effects of technology and materials, and how objects can be used to create dialogues, drive narratives and stage experiences within a social or physical context.

While their work is often filled with polarities — solitude and interaction, transition and permanence, the artificial and the natural — their interest lies within man’s resolve to synthesize these opposites.

They look at our surroundings from a different perspective while setting the scene with scenarios and experiences that are notable in their formal simplicity and that use sound, sight and movement as a tool for expression.

Since establishing the studio in 2003 Troika’s work has been exhibited, amongst others, at the Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tate Britain and MoMA New York. In 2010 Troika were selected to create three art installations for the UK Pavilion at the World Expo Shanghai. Troika’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Israel Museum Jerusalem, British Council, The Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum Of Modern Art New York.

Troika has authored two books to date: Digital by Design, Thames and Hudson, 2008; Moscow Style, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2005, and, in 2009, won the D&AD Yellow Pencil for their digital sculpture ‘Cloud’ in London Heathrow Terminal 5 and ‘Palindrome’ at the V&A in 2011. In 2012 Troika was nominated for the Design of the Year Award by the Design Museum.

• The Space Between Now and Then 2011, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
• FILE 2011, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Decode: Digital Design Sensations 2011, Holon Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Falling Light 2011, Input / Output Gallery, Hong Kong
• Restless Bats Solo Show 2011, D&A Lab Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Joy of Living 2011, Somerset House, London
• Prediction, Biennale Internationale Design 2010, Saint-Etienne, France
• Blur, International Digital Art Festival 2010, Incheon South Korea
• Decode: Digital Design Sensations 2009, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
• Nowhere Nowhere 2008, LABoral, Gijon, Spain
• Design And The Elastic Mind 2008, MoMA, New York, USA
• Responsive: Best of British Interaction Design 2007, Japan
Roppongi Hill Arena, Tokyo, Japan
• Sensi Sotto Sopra 2006, Palladio Theater, Rome, Italy
• Ron Arad – The Masters Selection 2005, Ausstellungshalle für Zeit-Genössische Kunst Münster, Germany
• Some Of Us 2003, Bremen, Germany
• Cosmos 2003, Ilios’ Tower Park, Athens, Greece

Sachiko Kodama

Tokyo, Japan

Sachiko Kodama was born in Japan in 1970.
As a child she spent a lot of time in the southernmost part of Japan. This area is rich in tropical flowers and plants, edged by the sea, and washed with warm rain. Sachiko loved art and literature from an early age, but also had a strong interest in science.

After Graduating Physics course in the Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University, in 1993, Sachiko matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media. Then she completed Master’s and Doctoral Program in Art and Design at the University of Tsukuba and received Ph.D. in Art.

In 2000, Sachiko began work on a ferrofluid art project that she named “Protrude, Flow”. The dynamic movement of liquids is the theme of this project.

Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica Center/Linz, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Wexner Center for the Arts/Columbus, Skirball Cultural Center/Los Angeles, The National Art Center/Tokyo, Reina Sofia National Museum/Madrid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

• The 5th Media Arts Festival, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Grand Prize (Digital Art Interactive Division) 2001
• The 16th Digital Content Grand Prix, Digital Content Association of Japan, Art Award 2005
• Japan Information-Culture Society, Art Award 2002

• Sachiko Kodama “Morpho Tower” 2006, Gallery Sakamaki, Tokyo
• Dynamic Fluid: Sachiko Kodama’s Magnetic Fluid Art Project 2005, Science Museum, Tokyo
• Sachiko Kodama “Breathing Chaos” 2004, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles
• Sachiko Kodama Exhibition 1996, Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo

• Cyber Arts Japan 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
• Silicon Dreams: Art, Science and Technology in the European Union 2010, Tabakalera, San Sebastián
• The Armory Show 2010 2010, Morpho Tower with Acura ZDX team, New York
• Device Art Exhibit 2010, UCLA DMA, Los Angeles
• Ars Electronica 2009 Device Art Exhibit 2009, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
• Art Futura 2009 2009, Auditorio IMAGINA, Barcelona
• Sculpture in Motion 2008, Atlanta Botanical Garden
• Woman’s Perspective in New Media 2008, Bitforms Gallery Seoul
• The Power of Expression, Japan 2007; National Art Center, Tokyo
• Meta Visual – 10 Anniversaire du Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 2005, Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, France
• IJapan Media Arts Exhibition 2002 Fusion of Art, Technology and Entertainment 2002, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Samson Young

Hong Kong, China

Samson Young (b.1979), composer, sound artist and new media artist. With formal training in music composition, an eye for visuals and a keen interest in emergent technologies, Young has been known to combine his diverse expertise into uniquely intermedia experiences. His works are fundamentally informed by an engagement with new cultural-technological paradigms, yet deeply grounded in the classical musical tradition. Young’s creative output spans the widest possible range: from composition for orchestra and gameboys, to amusement ride-turned-sound installation, to ensembles of ipad and iphones, to multimedia music theatre. Described by Sequenza 21 as “epic, dark and fun,” a sense of play that comes from breaking down preconceived boundaries unifies all of his work.

Young belongs to a new breed of composer-artists whose work speak to communities across disciplinary divides. In 2007, Young became the first from Hong Kong to receive the Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award with his audio-visual project “the Happiest Hour.” In 2009, CNN’s global portal CNNgo named him one of the top “20 people to watch in Hong Kong.” Young was Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s artist associate in the 2008/09 season, and since then he has maintained a close relationship with the orchestra, working in the capacity of composer-director in a range of multimedia productions. These include: Electric Kinderszenen, a piano-installation project featuring Colleen Lee; Box of Revelation, a multimedia rendition of Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps; and the popular “Know-Your” concert series.

Young is a regular guest at festivals around the globe, including: Sydney Springs International New Music Festival (Australia 2001), the Canberra International Music Festival (Australia 2008), ISCM World Musid Days (Australia 2010), MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art (2011); the Bowdoin International Music Festival (US 2004), Bang on a Can Music Summer Music Festival (US 2005), Perspectives International Festival of Media Art (US 2009); Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (Germany 2006); Dark Music Days (Iceland 2008); Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival (Malaysia 2009); Microwave International New Media Arts Festival (HK 2004), October Contemporary (HK 2007 and 2009), Le French May (HK 2004 and 2009), and the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HK 2009 and 2010). His music received performances by Hong Kong Sinfonietta, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, London NASH Ensemble, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Bang on a Can and summer institute fellows, Network for New Music, New Millennium Ensemble, SO Percussion, Sydney Song Company, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, among others.

Young is currently a Ph.D fellow at Princeton University, and an assistant professor in Critical Intermedia Art at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His mentors include Chan Hing-yan and electronic music pioneer Paul Lanksy.

• Japan Media Art Festival 2012, Tokyo
• Lacking Sound Festival 2011, Taiwan
• Floating Land Festival 2011, Queensland, Australia
• MONA FOMA Festival of Music and Art 2011, Australia
• Hong Kong Arts Festival 2010, Hong Kong
• International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) Festival 2010, Australia
• Le French May Arts Festival: with City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong 2009, Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Arts Festival: with Hong Kong Sinfonietta 2009, Hong Kong
• Canberra International Music Festival 2008, Australia
• Dark Music Days Contemporary Music Festival 2008, Iceland
• October Contemporary 2007, Hong Kong
• Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt 2006, Germany
• Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art2005, USA
• Bowdoin International Music Festival2004, Maine USA
• Cattle Depot Arts Festival2003, Hong Kong
• The 11th Sydney Springs International Music Festival2000, Australia

• XXX: Next Ten Years of Contemporary Art 2011, Today Art Museum, Beijing
• Shanghai Electronic Music Week Sound Art Exhibition 2011, Eastlink Gallery, M50 Shanghai
• Invention and Intervention – Power Showcase of Hong Kong New Media Artist 2011, Microwave, Hong Kong
• T_XT_RT 2011, New York, USA
• Machines for Making Nothing 2011, Cogut Center for Humanities, Brown University, USA
• Hong Kong Whispers 2010, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London
• New Vision Arts Festival 2010, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong
• InLight Richmond 2010, Richmond, Virginia
• Biennale Lichtkunst – private light in public spaces 2010, ARTPARK Linz, Austria
• Resonances 2010, I/O Gallery, Hong Kong
• 18 Degrees of Acclimation 2010, White Box Gallery, New York
• Beyond the Colony of Kitsch 2010, Crossing Art Gallery, New York
• Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2010, West Kowloon Cultural District Waterfront, Hong Kong
• Prospectives International Festival of Media Art 2009, University of Nevada
• October Contemporary 2009: Last Intervention 2009, Osage Art Foundation Gallery, Hong Kong
• Box of Revelation 2009, McAulay Studio, Hong Kong Art Center
• Eric Ayotte and Samson Young 2008, Red Tin Shack Gallery, New York
• Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win: Emerging Artists from the Chinese Diaspora 2008, Deutschebank Headquarters, New York
• The Happiest Hour: Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award Exhibition 2007, Sino Hong Kong Art Gallery, Hong Kong
• October Contemporary 2007: Again 2007, Osage Art Foundation Gallery, Hong Kong
• Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2007, Victoria Prison, Hong Kong and OCT, Shenzhen

Dominic Harris

London, United Kingdom

Dominic Harris is an interactive artist working with a range of materials spanning lighting technologies, interaction design and electronics.

Dominic’s artworks exhibit a continued fascination between inventive adaptations of cutting-edge technologies and playful interactions within natural and digitized environments. His training as an architect explains his obsessive attention to the detailing and fabrication prevalent in his artworks.

Dominic designs and produces his artworks at Cinimod Studio, a multi-disciplinary practice he founded in 2007. This studio is comprised of a dedicated team with diverse backgrounds including architecture, industrial design, electronics, programming, motion graphics, and fabrication. Dominic uses the resources of Cinimod Studio for the on-going development, prototyping and production of his artworks.

Dominic also oversees the studio’s international projects where his artistic interests are translated into larger scale projects that range from commercial and retail work to public art projects.

• Vimeo Festival+Awards 2010,Shortlisted
• The 4th Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Exellence Awards 2005
• WRO 05,11th International Media Art Biennale 2005,Wroclaw,Poland,Honorable Mention

• Transitio_mx 2011, Mexico City, Mexico.
• FILE 2011, São Paulo, Brazil.
• When New Vision meets New Media Exhibition 2010, New Vision Arts Festival, Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
• Hello World 2010, New Wright Gallery,Design Media Arts,UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• Body Trail 2009, sixpackfilm,Vienna, Austria
• Art Gallery 2009, SIGGRAPH ASIA,Yokohama, Japan
• SPARK ISEA 2009, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• WRO 09 2009, 13th Media Art Biennale,Expanded City, Wrocław, Poland
• Intrude 366 2008, Zendai MoMa,Shanghai, China
• Location One 2008, New York, USA
• Supermasochist 2008, Come Out & Play,Apexart, New York, USA
• Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture 2008; Refabricating City, Hong Kong
• Keep an eye on China 2008, N.O.Gallery, Milan, Italy
• Transmediale 2007, Berlin, Germany
• Inter Media Art Institute 2006, Düsseldorfie, Poland
• Folkwang Museum Essen 2006, Germany
• Backup Festival 2005, Germany
• EXiS 2005 Experimental Film and Video Festival 2005, South Korea

Eric Siu

Hong Kong, China

Eric Siu is raised in Hong Kong and is currently a resident artist of the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. In 2010, he received his MFA from the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA after completed a 12-month cultural exchange and research project in the United States. He earned his bachelor degree from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

Eric’s video art and multi-media works have been shown internationally including USA, Australia, Japan, Korea, Germany, and Poland, amongst others. He received an honorable mention from the WRO 05, 11th International Media Art Biennale, Poland. Since 2008, he serves as board member of Videotage, HK.

Eric has a broad interest in animation, video, installation and interactive art. He loves to create interesting spectacles and to transform human perception and experience to sensational levels. His work always blurs the boundaries between high and low culture at the same time provides laughter and amusement that entail critical thoughts. He explores media in a raw and primitive perspective.

• Vimeo Festival+Awards 2010,Shortlisted
• The 4th Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Exellence Awards 2005
• WRO 05,11th International Media Art Biennale 2005,Wroclaw,Poland,Honorable Mention

• Transitio_mx 2011, Mexico City, Mexico.
• FILE 2011, São Paulo, Brazil.
• When New Vision meets New Media Exhibition 2010, New Vision Arts Festival, Cultural Centre, Hong Kong
• Hello World 2010, New Wright Gallery,Design Media Arts,UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• Body Trail 2009, sixpackfilm,Vienna, Austria
• Art Gallery 2009, SIGGRAPH ASIA,Yokohama, Japan
• SPARK ISEA 2009, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• WRO 09 2009, 13th Media Art Biennale,Expanded City, Wrocław, Poland
• Intrude 366 2008, Zendai MoMa,Shanghai, China
• Location One 2008, New York, USA
• Supermasochist 2008, Come Out & Play,Apexart, New York, USA
• Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2008; Refabricating City, Hong Kong
• Keep an eye on China 2008, N.O.Gallery, Milan, Italy
• Transmediale 2007, Berlin, Germany
• Inter Media Art Institute 2006, Düsseldorfie, Poland
• Folkwang Museum Essen 2006, Germany
• Backup Festival 2005, Germany
• EXiS 2005 Experimental Film and Video Festival 2005, South Korea

Scott Draves

New York, USA

Scott Draves created the original Flame algorithm in 1991, the Bomb visual-musical instrument in 1995, and the Electric Sheep in 1999. Draves’ work has been commissioned by Carnegie Mellon University and the state-of-the-art Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Other works have been acquired by corporate and residential collections nationally.
Draves’ work is permanently included on MoMA.org and has appeared in Wired and Discover magazines, as an official skin for Google Chrome, at LACMA and Art Basel Miami, and as the graphic identity for Siggraph 2008.
Draves won an honorable mention at Prix Ars Electronica in 1993 for his Flame algorithm. His work has garnered notice from such competitions as Lumen_Ex in Extremadura, Spain; the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Montreal; ACA Media Arts Festival, Tokyo; Life/Vida Madrid and File Prix Lux in Brazil.
Draves has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked as a programmer for Inktomi, Transmeta, Dreamworks, and Google.

• File Prix Lux finalist 2010, Brazil
• Transformation wins 2nd prize from Lumen_Ex digital art competition, Extremadura SpainGenetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010, Montreal
• Clade receives Critic’s Award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2009, Montreal

• Generation 244 (triptych 30 minute excerpt) 2011, LACMA central courtyard (curated by the Center for Visual Music), Los Angeles
• Electric Sheep App preview in Future Canvas iPad art show 2011, San Francisco
• Solo show 2011, Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
• Curated into ThinkTank planetarium display 2010, Birmingham, UK
• Poetics of Code group show 2010, the Chelsea Art Museum, New York
• 4 Dreams in High Fidelity II 2010, HybridArt.ru, Moscow
• Dreams in High Fidelity I and II 2009, Art Basel, BKMIA, Miami
• The Firebird shown in Contemporary Abstract Animation show 2009, Redcat Disney/Calarts Theater, Los Angeles