DXARTS Spring Concert: Hyper-Realities & Ephemeral Orbits

• Daniel Peterson, sound diffusion & live processing
• Laura Luna Castillo, multimedia artist
• Ewa Trębacz, violin & ambisonic sound
• Carolina Marín, movement artist
• Ashley Menestrina, movement artist

Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals (Part 1)
Laura Luna Castillo / Ashley Menestrina / Daniel Peterson / Ewa Trębacz — Recontre 1
Laura Luna Castillo / Carolina Marín / Ashley Menestrina — Enclavados Todos Juntos ("Enfolded all together")
Laura Luna Castillo / Carolina Marín / Ashley Menestrina / Daniel Peterson / Ewa Trębacz — Recontre 2
Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals (Part 2)

An evening of software performances and human-machine communions, drawing lines between the worlds of immersive sound, performing arts, and experimental extended reality. The familiar, the bearable chaos and illusions of order unfold across technologically mediated hyper-realities, temporalities, and mnemonic worlds. Performances where interactions and reactions occur across choreographies and spatial arrangements, binding the virtual with the real in unexpected knots and impossible behaviors.

Featuring immersive multimedia works and collaborative performances by Laura Luna Castillo, Daniel Peterson, Carolina Marín, Ashley Menestrina and Ewa Trębacz.

About DXARTS (UW)

DXARTS is a ground-breaking department of creative practice-based research. Our mission is to support and empower new generations of artists who reimagine our emerging relationships with new technologies. As a department, DXARTS challenges current trends, develops new approaches to artistic discovery, embraces diversity, and looks towards the future while critically engaging with traditional forms. We strive to probe the unknown through experimentation across media and disciplines.

https://dxarts.washington.edu/

About Daniel Peterson, sound diffusion & live processing

Daniel Peterson is an acousmatic composer working with ambisonics. He completed a Master of Music in Composition at the University of Washington working with Juan Pampin and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department for Digital Arts and Experimental Media working with Richard Karpen. His compositional interests include spectral analysis, ambisonics, and the exploration of the relationships between literature, philosophy, and music.

About Laura Luna Castillo, multimedia artist

Laura Luna Castillo is a Mexican multimedia and new technologies artist and composer. Through convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture, and generative storytelling, Luna explores personal and collective identities shaped by political and intimate spaces. With a passion for machines, generative narratives, and the complexities of memory, she has developed audiovisual performances, installations and hybrid works for festivals such as MUTEK Montréal, CYNETART Festival, and EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center).

https://www.lauralunacastillo.net/

About Ewa Trębacz, violin & ambisonic sound

Ewa Trębacz is a Polish-American composer, violinist and an interdisciplinary artist. Collaboration, understood as exchange of creativity, is essential to her work. Exploring the unique interaction between the human subjects and their acoustic environment, she often uses space as a catalyst for improvisation, working through Ambisonic recording sessions in acoustically impelling spaces. Her works have been presented at major international festivals and conferences such as Ars Electronica Festival, ICMC, NYCEMF, CIME/ICEM, "Warsaw Autumn," and many others. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington's DXARTS program, where she currently works as Research Scientist.

https://ewatrebacz.com/

About Carolina Marín, movement artist

Carolina Marín's work focuses on research and experimentation on the dynamic movement of humans and other species. Advancing towards new territories on the transdisciplinary, in collaboration to understand, expand, and show these studies and experiences.

"Being available to listen and observe the biodiversity of the places I travel and inhabit is a complementary challenge to my line of work. It opens the possibility of reimagining and reconfiguring the idea of dynamic movement in relation to space and time. In this way my artistic work uses tools and concepts belonging to dance, science, architecture, sound, digital technologies, video and nature. I am currently working on the practice of walking as a basic action of locomotion, in relation to the landscape, the paths and the footprint, and how these are writing a story. In the same sense, I found the action of weaving and sewing as a way to connect, unify, build and make shapes on the way to building a story."

https://kescena.art/

About Ashley Menestrina, movement artist

Ashley Menestrina is a movement artist with deep ties to improvisation. Her repertoire of solo works: "Always a Creature," "The Human Condition: Absent Presence," and "Combative Echoes" have been performed in eight countries and received numerous awards from festival juries. She has further worked as a collaborator/choreographer for the following artists: Alice Gosti, Gonzaga University, Anna Mlasowsky for the Amazon A.I.R program, Emily Schoen Branch, and Maia Melene Durfee since moving to Seattle in 2021.

https://www.ashleymenestrina.com/