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The digital artist residency «love+byte and drag+drop» was launched in 2024 by the Schlachthaus Theater Bern, the Basel University of Art and Design FHNW and the University of Pedagogy FHNW and is now entering its second round:
«love+byte and drag+drop» promotes creative collaboration and networking between international artists* in the digital space. Over the course of four months, the artists delve into topics of their own choosing, explore the potential of digitality for the (performing) arts and experiment with new digital production methods and audiences. They present the resulting findings and project ideas to a local and global audience in the public «Digital Saloons».
The artists determine their own working methods and are supported by the three institutions, which provide them with resources, spaces and their network. At the end of the residency, the artists select the participants for the next residency, which means that the network is constantly evolving and expanding.
Die digitale Künstler*innen-Residenz «love+byte and drag+drop» wurde 2024 vom Schlachthaus Theater Bern, der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel sowie der Pädagogischen Hochschule FHNW ins Leben gerufen und geht nun in die zweite Runde:
«love+byte and drag+drop» fördert die kreative Zusammenarbeit und Vernetzung zwischen internationalen Künstler*innen im digitalen Raum. Während vier Monaten vertiefen sich die Kunstschaffenden in selbstgewählte Themen, erforschen das Potential der Digitalität für die Performing Arts und experimentieren mit neuen digitalen Produktionsweisen. Die daraus entstandenen Erkenntnisse und Projektideen präsentieren sie in den öffentlichen «Digital Saloons» dem lokalen und globalen Publikum.
Die drei Institutionen geben die kuratorische Hoheit bewusst ab: Die Künstler*innen bestimmen ihre Arbeitsweise selbst und werden von den drei Institutionen unterstützt, die ihnen Ressourcen, Räume und ihr Netzwerk zur Verfügung stellen. Am Ende der Residenz wählen die Künstler*innen die Teilnehmer*innen der nächsten Residenz aus, wodurch sich das Netzwerk stetig weiterentwickelt und vergrössert.
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Architect with a focus on art and human perception. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Neuroarchitecture, she’s also worked on audiovisual projects, including a documentary and an award-winning video game Atuel. Always drawn to the world around her, she finds depth in nature and creativity.
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Maya Chami is a graphic designer and digital artist based in Beirut. She is involved in broader cultural work including animating for the stage, organizing art exhibitions and auctions and managing art books from content to publishing.
Her live audiovisuals performances include «Transitional Digital Objects», «Of Men, Champagne and Victory Aside», «The Promise of a Field».
Her work springs from interpersonal narratives employing theory leading to practice.
Maya holds a BS in Graphic Design from Lebanese American University and a MA in Visual Arts (Digital Arts) from Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London.
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Curator + Art Historian
Naomi Edobor is a London-based curator, researcher, and consultant specializing in contemporary African art, institutional development, and cultural preservation. With a Master’s degree in Art History and Museum Curating from the University of Sussex, Naomi is dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary African art practices.
As co-founder of DICA Arts, Naomi leads strategic partnerships between institutions, galleries, and artists of African descent and the African diaspora, focusing on collection building and market development within the contemporary art scene. She is also the founder of OWA, an archival platform focused on preserving the aesthetics and cultural narratives of the Benin-Edo people, with an emphasis on decolonisation and indigenous knowledge sharing.
Mithu Sen is a conceptual artist who explores myths of identity, and their intersection with the structures of our world, whether social, political, economic, or emotional, and performs her work across mediums to explore hierarchies and conventions with particular reference to «myths» of language, sexuality, market, and marginalisation. Braiding grotesque fiction, personal ephemera, and piercing humour to obscure societal codes, the by-products of her conceptual practice take the forms of drawings, poems, performances, videos, glitches, and instructional interventions.
Sen works fundamentally as a performer, tangling with the politics of language, disciplining of bodies, conventions of society, and polite impositions of the art world. Known for her provocative, alluring, and playful examination of these hierarchies, Sen is committed to perpetual unbecoming through performative interventions, symbolic and linguistic counter-narratives, and intricate territorial tracings.
Sen received her BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, India; and a PG diploma (2001) from the Glasgow School of Art, UK.
Sen has exhibited and performed in major international forums including Sharjah Biennale 15, UAE (2023); Sonsbeek 20-24, Arnhem, the Netherlands (2021); APT9-9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018); Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2018); Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (2018); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (2017); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Unlimited: Art Basel (2016); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2014); Dhaka Art Summit (2014); Tate Modern Project Space, London (2013); Zacheta Museum, Warsaw (2011); and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2008), among other forums and institutions.
She recently had her major survey show of the last two decades at ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne in 2023.
She was awarded the Skoda Prize in 2010 and the Prudential Eye Award for Contemporary Asian Art – Drawing in 2015.
Elvio Avila
Tanz/Performance
Elvio ist ein Künstler, der sich im ständigen Konflikt zwischen Konservativismus und Innovation bewegt und meistens in der Absurdität ankommt. Im Alter von fünf Jahren startete Elvio Avila in der Provinz Mendoza in Argentinien ein intensives Training in argentinischem Volkstanz. Mit vierzehn fing er in Buenos Aires (AR) contemporary dance an zu studieren. 2010 kam er in die Schweiz und studierte «Advanced Studies in Modern Dance» an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Darauf folgte der Bachelor an der Accademia Dimitri im Physical Theatre, welchen er 2013 abschloss. 2019 folgte der Abschluss in Master in Expanded Theater an der Hochschule der Künste Bern. 2020 war Elvio Tänzer im Stück «Salt» am Luzerner Theater und konnte als Choreograf kooperieren. Zusammen mit Savino Caruso gewann er 2021 mit «mi vida en transito» den Nachwuchsförderpreis PREMIO. Das Stück war zudem 2022 auf der Shortlist des 9. Schweizer Theatertreffens. Zurzeit lebt Elvio in San Rafael, Argentinien.
Golf Thanupon Yindee
Performer
Petra Serhal
Multidisciplinary Artist
Wana Udobang is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller whose work spans writing, poetry, performance, curation and installation art. She has released three spoken word albums and performed Africa, Europe and the US with commissions from the Edinburgh International Festival, Deutshes Museum and The Gates Foundation.
She has worked with the Guardian, CNN, BBC and Aljazeera and curated exhibitions exploring food, memory, identity and the body.
She runs Comfort Food workshop which uses food memories to inspire new stories. In 2022 she showed her first solo multimedia exhibition, Dirty Laundry
Joy always
Wana Udobang
Writer | Poet | Performer | Storyteller
www.wanaudobang.com