Bio
Marcel Zaes Sagesser (he/him) is an artist and researcher investigating how humans are increasingly intertwined with their technologies. Focusing on the material qualities of sonic media, his work reimagines environments that let us listen to human-technological relations. Mixed practice-based and academic methods enrich this critical practice. The ongoing series, High & Low Tech Sonic Materialities, renders multiple strata of ‘tech’ audible to rethink how they shape human experience in dense urban spaces.
Marcel’s work has appeared internationally at Fridman Gallery New York, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Center for New Music San Francisco, Gray Area San Francisco, Hong Kong Arts Center, HEK House of Electronic Arts Basel, Wuhan Biennial and Shanghai Cadillac Concert Hall, but also at research-based venues such as at Columbia University, Standford University, CHIME Fest at University of Chicago, Designing Intearctive Systems at Carnegie Mellon University, ISEA at City University of Hong Kong, or ICMC at New York University Shanghai. His work has been awarded with prestigious grants such as the Fulbright Fellowship or Zhejiang Conservatory’s Keylab Grant for Digital Music. Publications include venues such as the Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, or Norient Sampling Politics.
Marcel received his PhD in Music+Multimedia Composition from Brown University. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Media Arts & Technology at Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen.
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