The project develops around the transmediation of scientific reports on entrainment into sound installations.
In the field of chronobiology, entrainment denotes the faculty of living organisms to relate their internal rhythm to environmental rhythms.
Transmediation is placed at the center of the project so to analyse the tipping point of its feasibility, testing the medial affordances of text and sound.
In the project, entrainment and listening hybridise the practices of biology and sound art:
on the one hand, the transmediation of entrainment allows to compare the practice of working with rhythms in chronobiology and in sound art;
on the other hand, the act of listening, required to experience sound art, draws a parallel between the attitude required to experience sound art and the contemplative practice of observing phenomena in biology.
PhD Research Collective and
Department of Interface Cultures, Art University Linz (AT)
Prof. Dr. Manuela Naveau, Prof. Dr. Anne von der Heiden
light injuries (2025)
A paper and wax tube installation ihnabited by living tomato plants, deals with the injuries caused by entrainment to extreme light conditions.
[Developed site specifically at "Viktoria, Raum für Künstlerische Forschung. Funded by 15. Bezirk, Wien]
frequent frogs (2024)
The sound installation deals with the rhythm and entrainment of frog calls.
[Developed for "STERRRN Festival", Österreichschen Skulpturenpark, AT]
day in and day out (2023)
The exhibition reflects on the limits of adaptation to unnaturally long day-night rhythms.
[Developed during the residency project "Long Term Short Stay". Funded by "impulsgelden" Provincie Noord-Brabant, NL]
return to refresh (2022)
An installation developed around an ecology and chronobiology study (Zimova et al. 2016) comparing the seasonal synchrony between landscape colour and fur colour in scottish mountain hares before and after impactful changes driven by climate change. Exhibited at Sehsaal Galerie
TTFL part1 /
TTFL part1.1 /
TTFL part1.2 – series (2019-2021)
Chronobiologists have summarised the molecular mechanism of the circadian clock in a model they named transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL). One of the properties of the TTFL is that it self-sufficiently generates rhythms; the works of TTFL part1 specifically deal with the self-organising properties of the circadian clock.
Documentation of TTFL part1 subprojects:
Algorithm Algorhythm Algoarrhythmia
The course explored the potential of rhythm as a cross-media composition tool by training to connect intuitions residing in embodied knowledge with conceptual intentions. Excerpts from Henri Lefebvre’s book “Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life” will provide a key to using rhythm as a mode of analysis and guide the process of distinguishing between rhythmical and arrhythmical scenarios. The workshop will expose students to different ways of perceiving, conceiving of and analysing rhythm and provide them with a framework for developing an artistic research project to explore a facet of rhythm they wish to explore through their practice.
The course was tought to Master Students of the Art University Linz in Summer Semester 2025.
schritttempo: Gehen als Methode, Rhythmen zu untersuchen (2023)
The workshop draws attention to body rhythms (heart beat, breathing, walking) to closen the relationship to one's own body rhythm and thus deliberately relate it to environmental rhythms.
[A cooperation with TONSPUR Kunstverein. Funded by OEAD + Bundesministerium für Bildung Wissenschaft und Forschung]
SAR Conference, Port 7.-9.5.2025
Poster presentation
"Sound Arguments", Den Haag, 27.-28.05.2024
Graduate program of Orphaeus Instute for sound art researchers
"Sound Arguments", Gent, 25.-27.03.2024
Graduate program of Orphaeus Instute for sound art researchers
PhD course in Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, 02.-06.2022
Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)