By the Code of Soil: (de)Compositions
Kasia Molga & Scanner,
By the Code of Soil: (de)Compositions, 2018. Installation view.
Image courtesy © Kasia Molga
By the Code of Soil: (de)Compositions
Kasia Molga and Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner
Kasia Molga
b. Poland
Lives and works in Margate
Kasia Molga is a design fusionist working on intersection of technology, arts, science and engineering. Through her installations, audio-visual performances or coded multimedia sculptures, she creates narratives about how emerging and ubiquitous technologies impact our understanding of the natural environment. She exhibited and presented internationally, most notably: Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, V&A Museum in London, Ars Electronica in Linz, TRANSNATURAL in Amsterdam, Meta.Morf , ISEA in Istanbul, Translife Media Arts Triennial in Beijing, MIS in São Paulo, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam; and she is a recipient of many international awards, grants, nominations and accolades, among many others: Wellcome Trust Award, Ars Electronica, Creative Industries, European N.I.C.E Award, RESHAPE, and LES RESPIRATIONS.
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner
b. 1964, London
Lives and works in London
Scanner’s work traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation, Delivery, and The Garden is Full of Metal hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. To date he has scored 65 dance productions, including the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba Narnia, Qualia for the London Royal Ballet, and the world’s first Virtual Reality ballet, Nightfall, for Dutch National Ballet. More unusual projects have included designing sound for the Philips Wake-Up Light, the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the new Cisco telephone system used in many offices around the world. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne McGregor, Mike Kelley, Torres, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.