THE LAB
THE BIRTH OF AN INNATIVE
"With the dawning of the digital age, technology has increasingly become part of our everyday lives and can in many ways be seen as an extension of the body and an enhancement of human capacity. INNATIVE LAB further investigates the potential of technology through artistic means and confronts us with a question in which we begin to surrender yet another part of the human ego - can technology be used to express our spiritual selves? Can a supernatural experience be translated into the digital realm?"
- Beatrix Joyce, Berlin Art Link
INNATIVE LAB is a Berlin research platform which brings together artists, designers and scientists to develop a multichannel approach to creativity.
Parting from the fields of contemporary dance, performance art, neuroscience, sensing technology, sound art, visual art and FashTech, INNATIVE LAB thinks of its experimental collaborations as ways of overcoming the barriers between disciplines.
INNATIVE LAB bases its name on the obsolete word for ‘native’, sharing roots with ‘innate’, reminiscent of ‘innovative’. Ancient knowledge of influencing neuronal activity joins here modern approaches of neuroscience.
FIELDS OF ACTION
WORKSHOPS, TECH DEMOS, TALKS
The lab offered in Germany the first-ever "neuroscience-dance workshops" with live visuals from real-time transmission of participants' brainwaves. Those workshops and tryouts with Brain-Computer Interfaces and art were initially designed for company activities like team building or creativity boosting. But following its theory and practice of "Socialization of brainwaves through collective movement" the lab extended this experience to wider audience in tech events, festivals, open to the public tech demos, and talks in art galleries.
Detailed info and booking ⥤ BRAINWAVES & DANCE EXPERIENCES
PERFORMANCES
Unveiling individual and collective reactions to given situations or inputs is an essential part of our creations. Through the use of Brain-Computer Interfaces, our Art-Tech performances and video-performances reveal human brain activity while in dance movement. This transparency leave aside acting to engage authentic interactions, even integrating performers and participators (spectators and participants at the same time) in an honest stage.
For them we use different methods:
- The real-time creation/modification of the audiovisuals with the input of the performer's brainwaves.
- The setting of a so called "neural closed-loop", a circuit of neuroinfluence and brainwaves feedback where participators also collaborate with their brain activity.
- Improvisation session with integration of the audience towards collective brain synchronization.
Detailed info ⥤ PROJECTS
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
Performing artist and spatial designer José Fernando Andrade has led a versatile career, developing interdisciplinary dance-theatre projects and innovation events for the corporative world.
After participating with his works in key art events like the Iberoamerican Theatre Festival of Bogotá, Marató de l’Espectacle in Barcelona or Tanzmesse Düsseldorf, José Fernando stablished in Berlin Trend Tours Berlin, an agency for narratives between art, design and commerce.
He founded in 2017 INNATIVE LAB, aiming to create immersive experiences through the connection of art and sensing technologies.
José Fernando has also been teaching dance-theatre and conducting workshops for both public and private institutions to enhance participants’ creativity.
VISUALS AND SONIFICATION
Federico Foderaro is an audiovisual artist, working in the connection between art and technology. He has been also developing audiovisual material and installations for companies, galleries and artists like Marlboro, Fox Group, Artechouse Gallery, and Michael Comte.
His live performance, “Anthropocene”, was awarded the jury prize of MUTEK Festival in 2017. Federico is also a widely known teacher of Max/MSP - software, for giving workshops, producing educational videos and teaching at the HGB University Leipzig (2016) and HDPK Berlin (2018).
MUSIC AND SONIFICATION
Coming from a interdisciplinary musical background as a performing musician and composer, Gabor Csongradi specialised in electronic, electro-acoustic music and soundscapes, employing Ableton Live and standalone electronic devices.
As a musician and sound designer he collaborates for contemporary music concerts, dance performances, audiovisual installations, and ArtTech worksops and projects, like ‘Anything Goes?’ - audiovisual installation with quadrophonic sound - Guerilla Architects, Berlinische Galerie, 2021.
INNATIVE LAB'S TEAM FOR DIFFERENT PERFORMANCES, TECH DEMOS, WORKSHOPS, TRYOUTS AND INSTALLATIONS SINCE 2017
Maria Pyatkova: Choreography & performance
Willi Döring: Neurosensing technology & programming
Yoann Trellu: Visuals and video projections
Federico Foderaro: Audiovisuals, interactivity & connectivity
Gabor Csongradi: Music, sound design & brainwaves sonification
Jorge Porras: Composition & sampling
Clément Destephen: Composition & sound design for motion tracking
Jennifer Rudloff: Costumes, motion tracking inception & camera
Cheng-Ting Chen: Lighting design
Neirin Best: Video & photography
Xavier Burrow: Video and design
Julian Ronenfeld: Photography
G. McReedem: Photography and video
Ricardo Rodriguez: Technician
José Fernando Andrade: Direction, choreography, performance, design
Dr. Jessica Bush: Voice over, production, consultant
Dr. Hanna Poikonen: Neuroscience and dance consultant
© INNATIVE LAB - 2021
INNATIVE LAB
Boddinstr. 60, 12053
Berlin, Germany
+49 (0)30 99266308
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