Éva B. Csonka is an interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer with a focus on performative sound architectures, live composition and new media. Her work draws from various music genres such as classical, avant-garde and psychedelic rock. Describes her work as „temporary utopias“, her current ongoing work explores human behavior, in which the moment of experimentation becoming more and more important, while the rules of the game seem to disappearing. Interested in the consequences and dangers of digitalization at the moment of personal perception, she continues this longing and the challenges of trial and error in real time through sound, light and space. Losing oneself and letting go is one of the main elements of her works.

2023 DAAD fellow in New York City, researching body movement, classical and avant-garde music at the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center. In 2021, her experimental audiovisual choreography was shown at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, where she investigated the characteristics and the conditions of the “overview effect”, while astronauts looking back on Earth. Her sound art compositions were performed and presented at different festivals and locations internationally such as ZKM-Kubus, Ultrasound Festival, Inside Sonic, Roundabout Festival, Robotic Soundscapes, Next generation x Festival, IRCAM, NYCEMF among others.

She holds an M.A. (Diplom)in Media Art and Media Philosophy from Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design ( HfG), specializing in sound and acoustic spatial design. Prior to that, she studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), graduating with a B.Sc. in Architecture from TU Berlin in 2015. The same year she was awarded for the architectural concept competition “Concepts for urban life and living“ in the field of experimental architecture, focusing on brutalism and extended megastructures as such.

She initially trained in dance in Hungary, spending her early years on international tours with a local dance company until 1997. After a long break, she continued to practice modern jazz dance and ballet at Tanzfabrik Berlin from 2009 to 2024.

Pia Baltazar is an intermedia composer, undisciplinary researcher and independent curator. Born in Toulouse, France in 1976, she lives and works between Brussels and Montreal.

With a diverse background in engineering, philosophy of art, digital creation and musical composition, her practice has been developing for over twenty years at the intersection of interactive design, philosophy and artistic production.

Her artistic research interests revolve around the creative possibilities of the interplays between the senses (hearing, vision, touch...) and on the involvement of physicality and spatiality, both in the creative process and the aesthetic experience. Through this, she is interested in exploring liminal states of perception and consciousness, and how these generate specific modes of temporality and relationality.

She pursued a career as an electroacoustic composer and intermedia artist, working solo from 2002 to 2011, with commissions from, among others, the French State, the INA-GRM, the GMEA and the IMEB, the National Centres for Musical Creation, BEK, the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts… and performances at international festivals such as Borealis (Bergen, NO), the Radio France Festival (Montpellier, FR), Présence Électronique (Paris, FR) and OutHear (London, UK). From 2011 to 2022, she worked primarily with Aurélie Baltazar as part of the duo Les Baltazars, within which they developed an original body of work spanning visual arts, live performance, sensory dramaturgy and composition. This work, centred on sensory experience and light, has taken the form of performance installations, cross-sensory installations, mist sculptures and light tableaux. It has been presented at various venues and festivals in France and internationally, such as Le Phénix, Scènes de Valenciennes (Cabaret de curiosités festival), Reims (Orbis Pictus festival), LydGaleriet and Bit TeaterGarasjen (Bergen, Norway), La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lèz-Avignon, the 30/30 festival in Bordeaux, Rencontres-i at the Hexagone Scène Nationale de Meylan, and at several group and solo exhibitions. Since 2023, she has embarked on a new phase of solo work combining musical composition and installation, often in a site-specific context. She has since presented her work at the CTM and SPATIAL festivals in Berlin, FIBER in Amsterdam, INSCAPE in Seoul, and MUTEK, Elektra and Akousma in Montreal, amongst others.