ChDH Collective

The chdh collective studies image/sound relationships by creating visual and audio algorithmic synthesizers. They mainly use these audiovisual instruments in live performances. Using equations that describe natural mechanisms, they generate abstract choreographies of particles whose minimalist matter reveals underlying structures of great complexity, formed by strange organic attractors. In search of a synesthetic radicality, his hypnotic performances work on joint movements between image and sound and belong as much to experimental cinema as to improvised music in the way they are performed.

Since the early 2000s, they have shown their projects on more than a hundred international stages, most notably the presentation Egregore (2011), which explores the group movements of a multitude of particles, and Morphist (2015), a study of the transitions of form of an abstract substance.

This work has also led to two editions: the DVD Vivarium (Art Kill Art/Arcadi – 2008) containing abstract works on video, as well as the software developed for these creations, which proposes to “play” or edit them, and the Egregore Llave font. USB (Art Kill Art – 2014), an adaptation of the software used for Egregore, which has resulted in remote performance on more than 120 computers in some twenty countries.

Defender of free software, he freely distributes his projects and the tools developed for his work, including the pmd physical modeling library for Pure Data.

Cyrille Henry, an artist and developer in multiple fields, is interested in the interactions between human gestures and data processing for artistic exploration. His work was directed towards sensors or physical modeling for gesture analysis, human interface devices, and real-time sound and visual synthesis. He worked 4 years at La kitchen in Paris (in charge of the hardware department) for the development of sensor interfaces and their uses in an artistic context (live performance, dance, interactive installation, music). He is one of the founding members of the chdh project. Since 2005, he has been working as a freelance developer/engineer in the field of pure/Gem data and sensors.

Nicolas Montgermont explores the physicality of waves in different ways. He is interested in the reality of waves in space, the way they move and change, the links between a source and our perception, designing configurations that create a sensitive exploration of his poetic essence. He works with sound waves mainly through the vibration of materials and their propagation, natural and artificial electromagnetic waves in the form of radio landscapes, gravitational and sidereal energies through the astronomy/astrology double prism.

He creates installations, often in collaboration with Cécile Beau and formerly in the Art of Failure collective, in which time is of particular importance and allows for an intimate appropriation of these materials and energy, he is also active in the field of audiovisual performance with chdh and in experimental music with BCK and Yi King Operators. He has published several editions in Art Kill Art. His projects are shown in many centers in Europe and elsewhere (Club Transmediale, Elektra, MusikProtokoll, Fondation Vasarely, Palais de Tokyo, WRO, iMAL, PixelACHE, …).

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    June 7, 2019

    Eldad Tsabary


    Dr. Eldad Tsabary is the coordinator of electroacoustic studies at Concordia University and the current president of the Electroacoustic Community of Canada. His main areas of expertise are in the field of sound studies, specifically (1) sonic ear training and (2) live electroacoustic performance. Through these areas of research, Tsabary has been developing educational approaches, tools, and strategies to better understand and transform the various internal processes involved in the perception, organization, and creation of sound, both individually and collectively within an ensemble.
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    June 7, 2019

    Fabian Sanabria


    Fabián Sanabria is an Anthropologist and PhD in Sociology, university professor and writer, as well as a researcher on the problems of belief and desire in contemporary societies.
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    June 7, 2019

    Juliana Restrepo


    Publicist from the Pontifical Bolivarian University of Medellín, Master of Philosophy from the Pontifical Javeriana University of Bogotá and has master's studies in communication media at EGS (European Graduate School) in Switzerland. She is the Director of the District Institute of the Arts of the Mayor's Office of Bogotá dedicated to the promotion of the arts in the Capital District.
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    June 7, 2019

    Xavier Andrade


    Xavier Andrade, curator of the works of Manuel Delanda brings the exhibition Emergencies. Manuel de Landa, Mexican writer, artist and philosopher based in New York who has a very varied and exceptional multidisciplinary work. He has written extensively on nonlinear dynamics, self-organization theories, life and artificial intelligence, chaos theory, architecture, and history of science. Currently, de Landa is a professor at the Graduate School of Columbia University in New York in the area of architecture and holds the Gilles Deleuze Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He moved to New York in 1975 where he became a film director. In 1980 he became interested in computing, was a pioneer programmer and made art with the computer, when he stands out as one of the most outstanding theorists in the field of cybernetics.
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    June 7, 2019

    oscar leone


    His work, whose practice crosses the paths of performance art, video and land art, stems from an interest in exploring the plastic potential of landscape. In 2018 he was awarded the National Visual Arts Creation Grant for Intermediate Career Artists from the Colombian Ministry of Culture with the project SEQUENCIA DE UN HOMBRE QUE CAMINA (LA TIERRA). Some of his works are part of the collection of the Bank of the Republic, the National Museum of Colombia and the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center (Cuba).
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    June 7, 2019

    Paula Lopez


    General producer of 10 versions of the International Image Festival, including international cooperation with ISEA2017 and Balance-Unbalance 2016, she has participated in the production of the Manizales International Theater Festival and as a co-investigator in projects and consultancies in creative industries with MinCultura and MinTic . PhD student in Design and Creation from the University of Caldas with a national Colciencias scholarship, Social Communicator and Journalist from the University of Manizales and a specialist in Project Management from the Eafit University. She has been advisor to the rectory, vice-rector for university projection, member of the management team and currently director of graduates at the University of Caldas.
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    June 7, 2019

    Ricardo Dalfarra


    Argentina - Canada

    Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra is a composer, educator, researcher, curator, and historian, specializing in electroacoustic music and electronic arts. He is Professor in the Department of Music at Concordia University, in Canada and Founding Director of the Center for Experimentation and Research in Electronic Arts (CEIArtE) of the National University of Tres de Febrero, in Argentina.
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    June 7, 2019

    sebastian rivera


    Sebastián Rivera is a Master in Research in Artistic and Visual Practices Manizales, Colombia.
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