Algorithmic Knitting Design is a project by Stephanie Pan integrating fashion design, knitting and algorithmic thinking into the development of a large collection of handknitting patterns for wearable attire, available to general public. With the project she is developing a growing collection of knitwear patterns that incorporate algorithmic computing and digital aesthetics into their designs.…
Arbitrary Failures – a new collaborative video artwork by Madhouse Heaven, Stephanie Pan and Ensemble Klang
Sensing Sound is a sound art exhibition exploring augmented sound perception. It features participatory and interactive works by Alina Ozerova, Stelios Manousakis, and Yolanda Uriz Elizalde. Curated by Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis. The exhibition is part of the program of Musical Utopias #2: A festival of Sonic Embrace (20-21 December 2019) and is made…
A 360° virtual reality video by Madhouse Heaven for ‘Beast’ from Stephanie’s album ‘Have Robot Dog, Will Travel’
Modern Body Festival examines the nature of our current existence through thematic editions that curate experiences – physical, visceral, immersive and intimate. We seek the modern body within the new worlds that emerge when different artforms intersect, collide, and modulate each other. We focus specifically in the open field that exists between artforms – new…
Intelligent Artifacts & Breathing Spaces is the second Modern Body Laboratory edition. In this series we explore emerging themes and ideas in preparation for our next biennial festival edition, and invite you, our public, to brainstorm, experiment and experience with us! Exhibition & performance program at Broedplaats WD4X from Thursday to Saturday, 8-10 February 2018,…
Modern Body Festival invited Stichting ARTEk to present an evening symposium on Alan Turing. Turing is considered the father of computer science and a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and encryption. A panel of experts investigate his immense influence on our way of life, and speculate on the more obscure motivations behind his work and how…
During the performance ‘Tessels Oogh’, by Sarah van Lamsweerde, the audience is sensorily transported back to 1566, the year in which the Oude Kerk fell victim to the iconoclastic fury. As the Oude Kerk gradually falls dark in the evening, memories of these times are reawakened. Objects that were destroyed and stories that have fallen…
Working to fight off cold as well as the loneliness of solitary listening, Stelios Manousakis’ and Stephanie Pan’s Hot Listening Booth is a venue for intimate listening under high temperatures: a 3-person dry sauna heated by infrared light.
What exactly is the ‘modern body’? We are inclined to think of our bodies as limited to what is contained within our own skin, but technology, philosophy, spirituality, religion, and science all challenge this idea. Modern Body Festival, an initiative organized in The Hague by artists / makers / performers Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis,…