Mark IJzerman

Mark IJzerman is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of ecology and media art.
IJzerman uses digital technologies to create processes that have their own agency, to make works that create an intimacy between ourselves and the other-than-human. His work is always informed by field research as well as collaboration with other professionals. He is the 2022 winner of the S+T+ARTS4Water residency "Biodiversity in the Rotterdam Port" organized by V2_, on which he is currently working. He has presented his audiovisual works at various media art festivals in Europe (Rewire Festival, Meakusma, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel, Le Guess Who?, FIBER Festival, Mapping Festival) and has recently exhibited his work at the MU in Eindhoven, the Art Center Nabi in Seoul, _V2 in Rotterdam, De Lakenhal in Leiden and on the International Space Station. IJzerman is a professor in the Ecology Futures MA at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Den Bosch, where he and his students explore how sensory technologies can be used to respond to the climate emergency through experiential projects. He is a member of the new media collective Zesbaans and runs the sound art blog Everyday Listening.

Sébastien Robert

Sébastien Robert (1993, Nantes, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher developing a practice at the intersection of visual and sound arts, technology, science and ethnography. Most of his projects revolve around a research cycle, You're no Bird of Paradise, through which he explores endangered indigenous sound rituals and cosmologies. More than a simple documentation, without being an ambitious ethnographic archiving project, it aims to translate these immaterial resources into tangible, perennial artworks made of materials that echo the traditions of the communities encountered and the geo-specificities of the territories explored.
Through his work and research, Sébastien seeks opportunities to create an engaged and expanding artistic dialogue between non-Western perspectives and new technologies, while questioning our perception of our environment and highlighting the epistemological diversity of the world we inhabit.