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A event held at KIT FORM on Wednesday 24th September. The event starts at 12:00.
Machina Bristronica presents ANIMA: an art exhibition exalting the machine soul and forging new hardware from the skeletons of our electronic past.
As part of the festivals expansion, this year we’re proud to introduce this 5 day exhibition, with 6 local artists working across sound, light, sculpture and interactive installation. Running in the heart of Stokes Croft.
tertiary retention, sonified bodies of metal and concrete, micro-tronic worlds, ouroborotic robotics of sound and light, clanking mechano-luminance and slowly rushing fluid that brings life to unmoving material
Henry Rolls:
Henry Rolls is an industrial design graduate from Brunel, having had a varied career as video games artist, festival video artist, DT teacher and prop maker.
Michaela Shahini:
Michaela Shahini is a sound and sculpture artist based in Bristol. Their practice follows the tension between preservation and decay, exploring themes of resonance, distortion, and the artifacting of memory.
Nick Schneider:
Nick Schneider is an artist and designer whose practice investigates the thresholds of consciousness across machines, organisms, and speculative life forms. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, he creates hybrid structures that fuse synthetic technologies with organic forms, inviting viewers to question where intelligence begins and whether it can truly reside in non-human systems. His work oscillates between the biological and the artificial, seeking to portray both the wonder and the dread that accompany the possible emergence of non-human intelligence.
Liam Taylor-West:
Liam Taylor-West is a composer and audiovisual artist working with live musicians and new technology. His compositions and artworks are built around the behaviour of large groups of active elements, often featuring audience interaction and random events. Liam is interested in colour, light, rhythm and movement.
Jack Weallans:
Jack Weallans is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the meeting points of technology and human experience. Through sound, image, and data, his works trace how systems influence what we perceive and remember, and how identity emerges within these shifting currents.
Hebe Rusk:
Hebe Rusk is a Bristol based artist who primarily uses Collage, Sculpture and Fashion to explore how our perception of reality is affected by online content. She repurposes image and material to speculate current and future consumerist attitudes.
Wednesday 24th > Sunday 28th
12-6pm | Free Entry
Opening night: September 24th @ 6-10pm (including performances)
Greatest thanks to KIT FORM for their enthusiasm and support
Curated by Hebe Rusk
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
As part of the festivals expansion, this year we’re proud to introduce this 5 day exhibition, with 6 local artists working across sound, light, sculpture and interactive installation. Running in the heart of Stokes Croft.
tertiary retention, sonified bodies of metal and concrete, micro-tronic worlds, ouroborotic robotics of sound and light, clanking mechano-luminance and slowly rushing fluid that brings life to unmoving material
Henry Rolls:
Henry Rolls is an industrial design graduate from Brunel, having had a varied career as video games artist, festival video artist, DT teacher and prop maker.
Michaela Shahini:
Michaela Shahini is a sound and sculpture artist based in Bristol. Their practice follows the tension between preservation and decay, exploring themes of resonance, distortion, and the artifacting of memory.
Nick Schneider:
Nick Schneider is an artist and designer whose practice investigates the thresholds of consciousness across machines, organisms, and speculative life forms. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, he creates hybrid structures that fuse synthetic technologies with organic forms, inviting viewers to question where intelligence begins and whether it can truly reside in non-human systems. His work oscillates between the biological and the artificial, seeking to portray both the wonder and the dread that accompany the possible emergence of non-human intelligence.
Liam Taylor-West:
Liam Taylor-West is a composer and audiovisual artist working with live musicians and new technology. His compositions and artworks are built around the behaviour of large groups of active elements, often featuring audience interaction and random events. Liam is interested in colour, light, rhythm and movement.
Jack Weallans:
Jack Weallans is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the meeting points of technology and human experience. Through sound, image, and data, his works trace how systems influence what we perceive and remember, and how identity emerges within these shifting currents.
Hebe Rusk:
Hebe Rusk is a Bristol based artist who primarily uses Collage, Sculpture and Fashion to explore how our perception of reality is affected by online content. She repurposes image and material to speculate current and future consumerist attitudes.
Wednesday 24th > Sunday 28th
12-6pm | Free Entry
Opening night: September 24th @ 6-10pm (including performances)
Greatest thanks to KIT FORM for their enthusiasm and support
Curated by Hebe Rusk
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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