Water Organoids is a live cinema performance using an “immersive microscope” to film and project an invisible and counter-intuitive reality of self-organizing water structures. Physical experiments are performed alongside improvising musicians in front of the audience, as a puppetry of an emerging, primitive form of life.
With custom technologies, it explores poetic narratives with real world materials that force performers to react to unplanned events that are unique to each performance.
Language: EN
FREE / No Ticket
Max. 80
Water Organoids, photo: Yuntao Gao
Water Organoids, photo: Yuntao Gao
Bios
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Baudouin Saintyves
FR/US
Baudouin Saintyves is a physicist, engineer and multimedia artist. He is a staff researcher at the University of Chicago’s James Franck Institute and the director of the live cinema project Shapes of Emergence. His interests include how patterns and behaviors self-organize in nature and how this can lead to artificial life and intelligence in robotic matter.
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Benjamin Kinsinger
US
Benjamin Kinsinger is a Chicago-based musician who explores how narratives emerge from the interplay of improvised sound and movement. Combining jazz methods with film scoring, he collaborates with performance artists from contemporary art and dance to improve theater and magic. He is a resident pianist/organist at the Chicago Magic Lounge, IO and Annoyance Theater.
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Roiel Benitez
PY/FR
Shaped by diverse cultures, from his birthplace Jerusalem to South Africa and the Americas, Roiel Benitzen is a France-based Paraguayan musician, sound artist and community leader. He blends traditional and experimental drumming, sound design, and music production in art & technology projects. He works on public engagement for various educational entities.
Credits
Baudouin Saintyves : Director, engineering, and live experiments
Severine Atis : Live experiments
Roiel Benitez : Drums and electronics
Otto Briner : Upright bass
Ben Kinsinger : Piano and organs
All members developed the piece.
We acknowledge support from the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and FACCTS at University of Chicago, PSL University, and Thorlabs.
