Based between Berlin and Italy, REINCANTAMENTO is an independent collective of researchers, philosophers, and designers dedicated to exploring the intricate entanglement between technology, magic, and human society. Through our open-source and work-in-progress meditation, we are interested in dismantling hegemonic techno-politics and creating sites of resistance. In our practice, we play with the language of magic, street pop culture, and game design.
Contributors
Reinhard Gupfinger is an artist and researcher working in the field of Sonic Interaction and Street Art based in Linz, Austria.His areas of focus are perception, documentation and the manipulation of acoustic space. Since 2000 he has been primarily developing projects involving interactive sound objects, urban interventions, and sound performances.
Rémi Georges is a sound artist, computer music designer and sound engineer based in Lyon. In his musical works, he combines old and new technologies to create customized bespoke tools, installations and compositions. He performs as a live coding artist under the pseudonym Ralt144MI. He is a keen explorer of the sound/image relationship and also performs in the Glitch Art, DemoScene and Circuit-Bending musical scenes. His work is always mindful of the need to support free and open source technologies.
Renfah is an arti(vi)st and researcher working in the field of Cultural Studies/ Critical Theory and Analysis. He received his PhD. in 2011 from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Within the frame of his PhD. project he conducted research in India, Europe and Africa analyzing globalized societies by looking at the
She focuses on art in technological contexts and looks into relations between art, technology and society. Since a long time she has been working with sound as her main artistic tool, but with the same sort of interest she will go for a walk or found a new network of people to deepen her connection with her surrounding.
The interdisciplinary research team consists of a core team of six people ranging from visual anthropology, environmental studies, art theory, scenography to music and programming: Flavia Caviezel (lead), Mirjam Bürgin, Anselm Caminada, Adrian Demleitner, Marion Mertens, Yvonne Volkart, associated: Andreas Simon. Most of the team members have been collaborating since “RhyCycling. Aesthetics of Sustainability in the Basel Border Area”, 2010- 2013; “Times of Waste” runs from 2015-2017.
Ricardo Palmieri (vj palm), 1978, is a video-jockey and an architect, graduated by the Universidade do Grande ABC (1997-2001), Sao Paulo, Brazil. Currently he is a consultant of space’s development, scenery and interactive installations to artistic and commercial projects using free softwares.
He worked for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture government, inside the program Cultura Viva on the Digital Culture as a researcher of free softwares for graphical production between 2005 and 2007.
Richie Cyngler is an experimental electronic artist fascinated by collaborative play, experimental process, learning and the creative potential of new technologies. He works predominantly with open source software, hardware, circuitry and sensors to make audio-visual interactive performance and installations which engage viewers/ participants in aesthetic play with the works and each other. Richie is also an educator and community leader in art, design and technology.
Rihards Vitols work is about relationships with nature, environment and technology. He is driven by the desire to design speculative devices for different environments and enjoy the unknown results and interaction to environments. Seeing him self as a mediator between environment and his work he puts him self in a bystander position to observe interaction between his work and environment. By utilizing scientific methodology he visualize the results in objects, prints and video formats that are represented as artifacts of his works interaction events.