For the Record: In Another Setting
Archivo Auxiliar
Archivo Auxiliar is a Mexico City-based collective devoted to developing a digital archive documenting the history of electronic music and its social production within a regional context. The team of five includes Frankie, a translator and DJ; Ramon, who works in marketing and is a producer; and Gabo, a musician and DJ. Together, this trio produces an influential roving rave in Mexico City, called EXT. They are joined by Alicja, who has a master's in architecture and is an amateur expert on electronic music, and Ayesha, who studied anthropology, has a master's in architecture and works in applied architectural research. The collective's diversity contributes to varied perspectives and skill-sets. The members believe that elevating regional history is empowering and also critical in understanding the changes and opportunities of the Covid-19 context.
In 2021, AAUX began a new project called Cyberstreams with the support of the For the Record research residency from Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Cyberstreams is studying spatial, social, and sound production in streaming events in the Covid-19-restricted world. Live events have been translated into cyberstreams, bounding what were once collective events by the frame of screens and cameras. From video live streams to VR events - cyberstreams have created new arenas for design, identity presentation, and consumption. Using case studies and interviews, the collective hopes to understand some of these new typologies and experimental performativities.
Jason King
Jason King is the Chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Jason is a musician, DJ, performer, producer, songwriter, scholar, curator, journalist and a widely published scholar, writing on the cultural politics of artists like Beyoncé, Drake, Roberta Flack and Luther Vandross. He is a regular contributor to publications like Pitchfork, Slate, Los Angeles Times, and NPR Music; and he is the author of The Michael Jackson Treasures. Jason has hosted and produced television, video and radio series, as well as podcasts, for media platforms like NPR Music and CNN: those series have featured artists like Dua Lipa, Alicia Keys, Moses Sumney, and Miguel. Jason has been an expert witness in high-profile legal cases for Drake, Katy Perry, Jay Z, Timbaland, Lady Gaga, and Madonna.
GLOR1A and Alpha Rats
UK-based multidisciplinary artist GLOR1A crafts sizzling experimental R&B music rooted in concepts of Afrofuturism and the transformative power of technology. For Rewire 2021, she is working alongside Japanese VR developer and visual artist Alpha Rats on SWARM, an interactive prototype game that fuses digital art and live performance. Based on mythology, ancestral art and the female utopia, SWARM is set deep in the underworld and encourages the audience to explore the game's environment together, unlocking unique live performances in a fascinating sound-reactive journey.
Volumetric Performance Toolbox
Volumetric Performance Toolbox (VPT) is a collaboration between performing artist Valencia James, digital experience creator Sorob Louie and spatial interaction lab Glowbox. VPT envisions live online 3D dance performance as a new way for artists to create and perform from their own living spaces during the pandemic, and for audiences to communally experience art using minimal equipment. Led by the shared values of liberation for all who have been harmed and/or excluded by the media and various systems of oppression, VPT makes emerging technology accessible for artists to both strengthen and sustain their craft. This project is made possible through the generous support of Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellowship programme.