Ioana Vreme Moser
Ioana Vreme Moser (b. 1994, RO) uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places fluidic and electrical currents in situations of interaction with her body, minerals, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on the history of electronics, their production chains, wastelands, and toxicological entanglements in the natural world.
Amongst others, she has performed and exhibited at ZKM (DE), National Gallery of Denmark (DK), singuhr (DE), Fonderie Darling (CA), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE); Vancouver New Music (CA), Manifesta 14 (XK); SFX – Sound Effects Seoul (KR), Ars Electronica (AT), Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Krakow (PL); Simultan Festival (RO); Eigen+Art Lab – Transmediale, Berlin (DE).
Lipstick Semiconductors & Fluid Machines
Lipstick Semiconductors & Fluid Machines embarks on an intimate visual essay on an alternative history of computer hardware in which minerals, cosmetics and fluids mingle in tactile experiments.
A lipstick converted into a strident sound generator resonates through toxic entanglements with one of its main historical ingredients: lead. Following a radioactive decay chain, lead ore, or galena, travels from lips to crystal radios and then settles into our computers.
This talk draws parallels between different types of hardware materialities and personal stories surrounding machines. Starting with the beauty industry, the talk serpents amongst toxic concoctions filled with heavy metals oscillating to become predecessors to the first transistors and their alternative fluidic siblings that use air and water instead of electricity.
Fluidics is a technology lost in history. To operate, it requires only simple fluid matter guided by natural phenomena. Much like its mineral counterpart, electronics, fluidics builds circuits for computing. This talk concludes by following the seductive forms that fluidic circuits assume, forms that can reimagine the morphologies of our current electronic machines.
