Pirouette Machines. Fluid Components
Pirouette Machines. Fluid Components embarks on an intimate visual essay on an alternative history of computer hardware in which minerals, cosmetics and fluids mingle in tactile experiments.
A lipstick converted into a strident sound generator resonates through toxic entanglements with one of its main historical ingredients: lead. Following a radioactive decay chain, lead ore or galena is found on our lips and in our early 20th-century technologies, such as crystal radio demodulation frenzy.
This talk draws parallels between different types of hardware materialities and personal stories surrounding computing components in their use. It serpents amongst toxic concoctions filled with heavy metals, Zincites that oscillate like transistors and alternative fluidic siblings that use air and water instead of electricity.
Fluidics is a technology lost in history. To operate, it requires only simple fluid matter guided by natural phenomena. Much like its mineral counterpart, electronics, fluidics builds circuits for computing. This talk concludes by following the seductive forms that fluidic circuits assume, forms that can reimagine the morphologies of our current electronic machines.
8.4.2026, 19:00 CET,
online (click for the Zoom link)
IOANA VREME MOSER
Ioana Vreme Moser is a Romanian sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation.
In her practice, she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, synthesised sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on electronics' history, production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world.
Amongst others, she has performed and exhibited at ZKM (DE), Singuhr (DE), National Gallery of Denmark (DK), Fonderie Darling (CA), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE), Manifesta 14 (XK), SFX - Sound Effects Seoul (KR), Ars Electronica (AT), Simultan Festival (RO), Eigen+Art Lab Berlin (DE).
