I am one of the artists invited to take part in the online artistic residency Negentropy Nexus: Reimagining Electronic Opera – Art and Technology in the Post-Digital Age.
Absonus Lab, which promotes the initiative, sees this residency as a space for reflection and production that brings together artists, theorists and researchers from various artistic fields to explore the intersection of electronic music, artificial intelligence, performance and digital art with the concepts of hyperobjects, speculative futures and post-digital aesthetics. Through the lens of negentropy – the force that creates order out of chaos – the residency proposes new ways of re-signifying contemporary opera, performance and multimedia art shaped by digital tools, computation and post-digital aesthetics. These concepts inform creation and production, framed by the technological, post-industrial, post-minimalist and post-digital apparatus.
The Negentropy Nexus project runs from September to November 2024 and includes presentations, workshops, artist talks and reflection meetings on the theme.
Resident artists:
• Ana Santos (De-PT)
• Cláudio de Pina (PT)
• Daria Baiocchi (IT)
• Dan Antoniu (USA)
• Jack "Mia" Shamblin (USA)
• José Carlos Teixeira (USA-PT)
• Simona Dichio (IT)
• Sónia Carvalho (PT)
• Pedro Alves da Veiga (PT)
• R.Gritto (FR-PT)
• Vaida Tamoševičiūtė (LT)
• Židrija Janušaitė (LT)