Cross Pollination

Hello everyone, as promised here is episode two of our short season 5 featuring Myra-Ida van der Veen & Marije Baalman. We talk about extending the body, experimenting with interactions, the connections between medical research and art, and more. Myra-Ida is working in the field of multimedia performance, electroacoustic instrument building and vocal practice. She is focused on the interaction...

Hello everyone, after a long break we are back with a new episode featuring Gabey Tjon a Tham & Jeanine Verloop. We talk about alternate realities, what really is technology, new ways to blow glass, and more. Gabey Tjon a Tham researches the complex systems that occur both in nature and in our digital world and how they affect each other through ever evolving processes. These principles are ex...

I know it’s been just a week since our last episode, but as a little gift to you for the holidays, we are already back! My guests today are Ahnjili ZhuParris, who runs Generative AI workshops at iii, and Jan Zuiderveld, the winner of the iii residency award 2023. We talk about Artificial Intelligence, whether cities will become less relevant, predictive policing, and more. Ahnjili is a machine lea...

Hello friends! After a long break, it’s finally time to get started with season 4 of Cross Pollination. My guests today were Stephanie Castonguay & Mariska de Groot and it was a really fun conversation! Stephanie came to iii from October to November 2023 as part of the residency exchange program with Perte de Signal in Montreal and Mariska has been an iii member since 2013. Intrigued by the ph...

Happy summer everyone, we are back with a new episode! My guests today are Dave Murray-Rust, Myriam Bleau, and Nien-Tzu Weng who are all currently working on and finishing up residencies at iii. Dave, in his creative practice, engages with interactions between people and technology through installations and performance. His pieces layer together physical phenomena and animate electronics to create...

It seems like spring has finally returned and so have we, with a new episode! Today's guests are Naomi Rincón Gallardo and Vica Pacheco who are both currently working at iii on projects that they will present at Proximity Music in the Hague from the 7th to the 9th of April. Naomi, in her practice, tries to articulate an embodied theory intertwined with nature and matter: a theory that can be d...

Happy New Year everyone! We are back with a new season of CrossPollination with many new iii residents. Today's guests are Amos Peled and Karel van Laere, both of who are working on projects they will present at Proximity Music in the Hague this April. Amos is an artist who works with experimental music, audio-visual installations, and performance art. During his residency at iii Amos is working o...

It's finally time for the last episode of the season and today my guests are Jeroen Alexander Meijer, who won the iii residency award and is currently doing a residency here, and Edwin van der Heide who will be mentoring Jeroen through this residency. Jeroen works with light and sound to develop interactive experiences that help us become aware of the mysterious properties of our attention. During...

For the second episode of the season my guests are Judy Dunaway, who is currently doing a residency at iii, and Rafaele Andrade, an iii workspace member. Rafaele is currently in Iceland doing a different residency and joined the conversation online. Judy has worked with using balloons as sound conduits in various settings for many years and is presenting versions of some of her works here at iii....

We are back with a new season of CrossPollination and for episode 1 I am in conversation with the lovely Alexis Bellavance and Kunrad who are currently part of the new residency exchange program run by iii and perte de signal in Montreal. Kunrad is currently finishing his residency in Montreal and joined via zoom while Alexis who is doing his residency in the Hague joined me in the studio. In his...

For the last episode of the first season of CrossPollination we had a slightly different setup. I was in conversation again with two artists, Sofie Kramer and Mári Mako, but they actually worked together on one project during their residency at iii - a new pole-dancing instrument and performance, exploring technical innovation and sensory experience through the means of sound and movement. Since w...

In the second episode of CrossPollination, I had the pleasure of speaking with Nina van Hartskamp and Evelina Domnitch about their work and what drives them to create. Both of them have been creating works that bring together science and art, and help people engage with and perceive the world around them in new ways. While talking about Nina's project 'World's Within' that she is building upon whi...

In this first episode of CrossPollination, I spoke to Kexin Hao and Hugo Morales Murguia about the work they've been doing during their residencies at iii. Both of them have been creating around the ideas of human labour, movement and music but in very different ways. With her project 'Future Dance of Nostalgia', Kexin deals with the human body as an archive and translating labour into dance, and...