Technology is no longer a separable part of our lives. Our devices move with us, listen to us, learn our rhythms, and sometimes seem to understand us better than other humans. But as machines grow more intelligent and more intimate, what happens to care, compassion, and connection?
In Materize, interdisciplinary artist Sól Ey explores the merging of human and machine. The performers wear Hreyfð, a custom-built electronic instrument that creates sounds with movement. Materize doesn’t ask how technology can serve us — it asks how we relate to it, and how it might relate to us. What does it mean to nurture a machine? Can technology learn to care? And what is lost when technological development outruns empathy?
The title merges “matter” and mater — the Latin word for mother. A reflection on formation, origin, and the ethics behind creation: Who gives life to technology? And who will care for what we bring into being?
Bio:
Sól Ey (b. 1996) is a composer, performer and new media artist from Iceland. She makes performances, interactive installations, and designs instruments that combine sound, space, movement, light and the body. Often working with sensors and new technologies, her work emphasises immersion, participation, and social interaction. Currently, her artistic research focuses on the possibilities of the human body when extended with electronics or objects.
Participating artists:
Composition, instrument design and concept: Sól Ey
Choreographer: Alvilda Faber Striim
Costume designer: Daphne Karstens
Light design and programming assistant: Nathan Marcus
Performers: Abraham Rademacher, Paulina Šmatláková, Paulina Rewucka & Sól Ey
Mentor: Marina Mascarell
Producer: Bad Circuit
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