British artist, researcher and experimental technologist Martin Howse is currently artist-in-residence at Radiona, where he is developing new work within his ongoing exploration of the relationships between technology, geology, computation and material processes.
Photo: Martin Howse (cc)
Martin Howse’s artistic practice explores the relationships between the Earth, technology, computation and the human psyche. Working across experimental electronics, sound, performance, installation, software and artistic research, he investigates how geological and geophysical processes intersect with digital systems and technological infrastructures.
A central concept in his work is psychogeophysics – an experimental approach connecting geophysical phenomena, technological systems and subjective experience. Through performances, laboratories, walks, workshops and self-built electronic devices, Howse makes normally invisible processes perceptible, including electromagnetic activity, geological signals and the material processes underlying computation. His practice challenges the idea of technology as something immaterial, instead drawing attention to its physical, geological and ecological foundations.
Photo: Anna Bastyrova (c)
Howse is also the creator of the ERD modular synthesizer series and founder of the Tiny Mining community, projects that further explore the material and ecological dimensions of electronics, computation and technological extraction.
BIO:
Martin Howse is a British artist, researcher and experimental technologist whose work investigates relationships between geological and geophysical phenomena, software, electronics and the human psyche. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London and has developed an interdisciplinary practice spanning sound, performance, installation, experimental hardware and software, writing and artistic research.
From 1998 to 2005, Howse directed ap, a software performance group working with electronic waste and developing early approaches to digital glitch. Between 2007 and 2009 he organised a regular programme of workshops, micro-residencies and salons in Berlin, and he has since initiated numerous open-laboratory and collaborative research projects. His work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, performances, lectures, workshops and residencies, including at institutions and events such as transmediale and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, V2_ in Rotterdam, ICA London, TEA Tenerife and the Taipei Biennale. In 2005 his project ap0201, installed in the Mojave Desert, received first prize at the VIDA 8.0 Art & Artificial Life International Awards.
His ongoing projects include the ERD modular synthesizer series, experimental investigations into earth-based computation and radio mycelium, and Tiny Mining, a project examining the extraction of technologically valuable minerals from the human body. Recent work continues his long-term investigation into the material foundations of computation and the entanglement of technological, geological and biological systems.
Web: 1010.co.uk
Supported by: The City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture and Media of Republic Croatia / Kultura nova Foundation