Cyanne van den Houten is a queer media artist based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and founder of the art-meets-tech collective Telemagic. Van den Houten´s practice revolves around the parallels between magic and technology, exploring the synthetic connection between humans and machines.
Ana Zdravković is a visual artist from Belgrade, Serbia. Her work involves mostly painting and drawing, as well as experiments with different materials. She is inspired by a variety of forms and textures encountered in nature and explores the complexity of relations between human, other living beings and the environment.
Zeno Gries has an open-ended approach to artistic work, deliberately relinquishing control over certain aspects of the creative process. This methodology often leads him to collaborate with scholars, actors, and other artists from various disciplines. By embracing a performative surrender of power and control in his productions, Zeno Gries aims to challenge a traditional patriarchal approach […]
Nisrine Boukhari is an artist-theorist currently pursuing her PhD at The Artistic Research department Angewandte Kunst Wien residing between Vienna and Stockholm. In her art-based research projects, she uses language to evoke a distinctive mind’s energy, exploring new realms of imagination that involve the body and the mind in an immersive poetic and sensorial experience through […]
Elena Mazzi’s practice is based on the examination of specific territories where she reinterprets the cultural and natural heritage of places, interweaving stories, facts and fantasies handed down by local communities, in order to suggest possible resolutions to the man-nature-culture conflict. Her somewhat anthropological working method favour a holistic approach aimed at repairing the rifts that occur in society.
The UmArts Artist Researchers in Residence Programme (ARIR) provides the opportunity for artists and makers to contribute to the UmArts research environment for one month. The programme focuses on interdisciplinary practice-based researchers from the visual arts, sound arts, media arts, performing arts, architectural, design, maker and hacker communities to develop short term projects in the UmArts research studio and contribute to the UmArts research environment. Residencies can be supported as part of the UmArts ARIR progrma, including UmArts TAIGA Microprojects, and partnerships with international universities and art galleries. If you have any questions about the residence programme, please contact Clara West clara.west@umu.se Research Coordinator at UmArts.