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Gabey Tjon a Tham researches the complex systems that occur both in nature and in our digital world and how they affect each other through ever evolving processes. These principles are explored through audiovisual installations that are balancing between virtual and analog realities.
By acquiring cross-disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences and computer science she finds connections between the natural and artificial in our anthropocentric environment. Her artistic practice revolves around the question: How natural is nature in our current time ?

Gabey Tjon a Tham

Every day we are surrounded by machines and technological systems that have their own internal clocks. If/Then seeks to make sense of these mathematical time systems contained in the technological systems we daily interact with. As humans we perceive time in a subjective and fluid way, while computer time and rules are measurable in strict miniaturised sequences and programmed units.
If/Then proposes a fluid interpretation of algorithmic software architecture speculating on the wave and particle duality, one of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics that states that at a fundamental level reality consists of two essences instead of one (1) or the other (0), as in our current digital binary system. The installation invites the viewer to observe the mixed substance as a particle or wave. Two wave machines are interconnected by means of a sensor that reads the movement of the wave on the other side of each machine. Water is used as a chaos element to generate random data. A self-directing dialogue is created of hydrogen bubbles, waves in water, sound recordings from rain and individual water droplets.
Credits
Commissioned by : FIBER
Supported by : Crossing Parallels (TodaysArt &amp; TU Delft), Stroom and the Creative Industries Fund NL
Software design &amp; development : Marcus Graf, Pandelis Diamantides, Amr Ranneh
Special thanks : Tatiana Kolganova, Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand, Bram Vreven, Erwin van Asbeck, Aurele Adam, Thim Zuidwijk, Nabi Kambiz, Aidan Wyber, Wim Uijttewaal, Luuk Meints

If/Then

Grand Manège

Joanie Lemercier (b. 1982) is a French visual artist and environmental activist whose work explores human perception through the manipulation of light in space.  Working primarily with light projection and computer programming, Lemercier transforms the appearance of everyday objects and forms, bending reality to his imagination.
In recent years, Lemercier has become increasingly concerned with climate change and environmental degradation, lending his projection skills and artistry to activist causes and groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Les Soulèvements de la Terre, Ende Gelände, as well as developing a new body of work, Slow Violence which looks at the devastating effects of coal mining on one of Europe’s oldest forests.
He has been working with projected light since 2006 and co-founded the acclaimed visual label AntiVJ in 2008. Represented by a New York based gallery since 2010, Joanie founded his creative studio in Brussels in 2013, under the co-direction of Juliette Bibasse.

Joanie Lemercier

(Mist)
Brume is a contemplative installation by Joanie Lemercier, using an atomized water custom device.
With space and immateriality as a canvas, creating a mid-air floating projection, Joanie frees his work from the physicality of usual devices. Thanks to this volumetric tool, he modifies our frontal relationship with screen and allows new interactions between the viewer and the projected image.
He explores the possibilities of this new medium with a series of tableaux questioning our view of reality.
In his work, Joanie is researching timeless subjects like light, matter, geometry. With Brume, he is also interested in the link between water, light.
Like a transition or passage, the visitor discovers an intangible image, suspended in the void. For Joanie, it is a form of achievement to “escape from the screen”.
The image is moving in space and the viewer’s movements bring depth. This time of contemplation and calm invites to a sensory experience : enjoying the sound of the water, feeling the freshness of the mist.
Studio Joanie Lemercier : 
Co-direction : Juliette Bibasse 
Technical development : Martin Pirson 
Production : Nicolas Roziecki.
This project is supported by Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

Brume

Diane Mahín is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performative worlds in which sound and image are the driving forces. Working with sound reflects her desire to be faced with highly subjective, confrontational and immersive forms of reality. Diane scrutinizes the human body as a material object in order to dissect social constructions, as she wishes to grasp their absurdity and humor. Death and nothingness form the underlying motives of her work.
After her studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, Diane is currently exploring operatic principles within her practice at Sandberg Institute.

Diane Mahín

GUT imagines how humans behave when their bodies are turned inside out.
You will meet a human whose gut-sounds are amplified. The gut-human’s thoughts, actions, communications, movements, and feelings, are all determined by his gut sounds.
This performative world draws attention to the thin boundary between life and death, conscious reasoning and the subconscious gut, resulting in a visceral and absurd experience. Visitors are invited to walk in and out of this durational performance.