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About the artists presented in podcast:
Marko Batista is a Ljubljana-based tech-mixed-media artist, sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer, born in Tito’s Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and finished his Master of Arts degree at Central Saint Martins in London. As a researcher, Marko Batista focuses on themes such as DIY sound machines, displaced soundscapes, video transformation processes, networking data, dynamic intermedia systems, hybrid spaces, politics of art and other fields of contemporary media art. His sound performances and installations draw on the tradition of investigation in the field of experimental techno-media associated with the production and distribution of sound signals in mechanics, electronics and art. His engineered sound machines combine elements of controlled and automatic mechanical transmission that connect to electronic, digital and magnetic impulses and, with their specific direction, turn on circuits relevant for the production of hybrid soundscapes. His works have been presented at ARS ELECTRONICA – Featured Art Scene in 2008, 10th INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL BIENNIAL, BIX Facade KUNSTHAUS GRAZ, Cellsbutton#3 – Indonesia, VIENNA BIENNALE 2008, ELECTRONIC CHURCH Berlin, CCA Glasgow, SLOWTIME 2007, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, NETAUDIO LONDON 2011, 15th International Festival of Computer Arts – Maribor, ZERO Gallery/TRANSMEDIALE.10 – Berlin, SHARE FESTIVAL, LAB 30, HAIP#10…
Nataša Muševič aka Dot is a music producer, singer, song writer, record label manager and a multimedia artist. She moved to London at the age of 19 to study sound engineering and later finished her honours degree in Recording Arts at London's SAE Institute. Natasha wrote her degree paper on the subject of copyright law and artist income distribution which led her to become an eager Creative Commons supporter thereafter. During her years in London Nataša managed Immigrant Recordings with Subeena which was the first dubstep record label managed by female producers with their own releases coming out at the time when dubstep was yet to be considered a serious genre. Under the alias Dot, Natasha produced music which was being supported by dubstep promoters and DJs such as Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC1), L.D.(Rinse Fm, Transition), Chef (Rinse Fm, Transition), Elemental (Hotflush, Runtime) and others. She also collaborated musically with various musicians such as Clara Moreno (voice), MCZani (voice), ZED-U (band), Andy Williams (saxophone), Pharoah Russel (drums) etc. Natasha's work in intermedia art extends to collaborative projects such as Magnetic Matrix (with Marko Batista), Sonične Skulpture (with Boštjan Čadež, Marko Batista and Satja Lumbar) and Sonosthesia (with Jernej Marušič a.k.a. Octex). Her interest in multimedia art aims to include continuous research of sonic frequencies which have always been the main focus of Nataša's creations. Her new record label Read Write Music is a Creative Commons label and aims to publish physical music releases (vinyls) under CC licenses.
Marko Batista and Nataša Muševič (recorded and produced in 2010)
Podcast taken from the DVD ZVO.ČI.TI. so.und.ing Collection - A podcast collection of Slovenian contemporary sound art.
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Produced by: CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2011
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