VENUS EX MACHINA

Venus Ex Machina is a composer, sound designer and interdisciplinary artist. She has contributed sounds and music to a range of projects including releases on NON Worldwide and Optimo Music, an installation for Hyperdub, and a score for ICA & Channel 4’s short-film series, Random Acts.

In 2018, she developed her first “pirate AI” opera as Fellow of the performance laboratory CTM HackLab at HAU2 in Berlin, and also led a workshop on radio transmitter building at Moogfest in North Carolina, titled Wireless Imagination and influenced by her current fascination with the mythical and borderless nature of radio communication.

Morgan Craft

Morgan Craft is a solo electric guitarist and veteran of New York’s progressive music scene of the mid 1990s and early 2000s, holding a resume which includes work with Me’Shell N’degeocello, Marc Ribot, Talib Kweli, Butch Morris, Nona Hendryx, Christian Marclay, Vernon Reid, Ikue Mori, Greg Osby, Johnny Kemp, Pete Cosey, Greg Tate, Elliott Sharp, Anton Fig, Daniel Carter, etc.

In 2004, Craft stepped off the grid, beginning an eleven-year odyssey into the remote Tuscan mountains in search of a new musical methodology. Having found what he was looking for, his return to the modern world was inevitable.

Currently based in Amsterdam, he has released thirteen solo albums as well as numerous essays and articles.

Shenece Oretha

Shenece is a London-based multidisciplinary artist sounding out the voice and sound’s mobilising potential. Through installation, performance, print, sculpture, sound, workshops and text she amplifies and celebrates listening and sound as an embodied and collective practice. Recent solo exhibitions include Cell Project Space and Cafe OTO project space. Group exhibitions include: ‘Survey II’ (g39, Cardiff; Jerwood Arts, London; Site Gallery, Sheffield); ‘Cinders, Sinuous and Supple’ (Les Urbaines, 2019, Switzerland); ‘PRAISE N PAY IT/ PULL UP, COME INTO THE RISE’ (2018, South London Gallery). Residencies: Wysing Arts Centre. Recent performances at: LUX; Somerset House Studios; Storm Den Haag; Cafe OTO; Wysing Arts Centre; 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning; Auto Italia South East.
https://black-whole.info/

Taylor Le Melle

Taylor Le Melle is a curator and writer based in London. Taylor’s institutional experiences include David Roberts Art Foundation, Camden Arts Centre and a role as Assistant Curator, Public Programmes at Serpentine Galleries. There Taylor co-programmed the Galleries’ film, talks and performance series such as Park Nights 2017. Taylor has also organised shows at: McKenna Museum of Art (New Orleans), Chisenhale Dance Space, Arcadia Missa, and Assembly Point (all London). Taylor’s writing has been featured in: Art Monthly, Flash Art and Sophia Al Maria’s upcoming Sad Sack (Bookworks, 2018). With artist Imran Perretta, they have initiated not/nowhere, an artist workers’ cooperative focusing on film, audio and digital practices. With Rowan Powell (PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz), Taylor runs PSS, a publisher of printed matter whose upcoming projects include a publication edited by Rehana Zaman. Taylor is the 2018 Writer in Residence at Jerwood Visual Arts.
pssss.co // not-nowhere.org

photograph by Daniella Valz Gen