Matteo Marangoni – Chairman – matteo@instrumentinventors.org

Matteo Marangoni is an artist interested in ritual arenas, home brewed inventions and applied utopianism. Involved with grassroots organizations since the age of 16 in his hometown of Florence, he studied music performance, sound engineering and cultural management, before moving to The Hague,  where he obtained his masters diploma from the ArtScience Interfaculty in 2011. Within iii he coordinates the activities of the organization, he curates the nomadic performance series No Patent Pending and co-curated the Wonderwerp series at Studio Loos in 2014/2015. In 2017 he co-founded the cultural incubator WD4X, which provides 2500 m2 of permanent and affordable workspaces to over 45 artists.

Wen Chin Fu – Secretary – wenchin@instrumentinventors.org

Wen Chin Fu graduated in 2006 from the Classical Music Department of Shih Chien University, Taipei. She continued her studies at the Academy of The Arts in The Hague, receiving a bachelors from the ArtScience interfaculty program in 2010 and a masters diploma from T.I.M.E Muziektheater in 2018. Her performances explore the relationship between physical movement, sound and the environment. A key element of her practice is concentration, which opens the senses for perceiving things through new perspectives. She has organised events in contexts such as Tedx AmsterdamED and is involved in culture exchange programs between Taiwan and the Netherlands. Wen Chin is the founder of 台荷藝集 (Platform for Artists Netherlands Taiwan) .

Marije Baalman – Treasurer – marije@instrumentinventors.org

Yun Lee – Workshop Coordinator – yun@instrumentinventors.org

Yun Lee is an artist, composer, curator and educator mostly working with text, sound, and performance. Much of their work engages critically and playfully with recording technologies (from the phonograph to the internet) to navigate shifting definitions of being human. Other works turn to acoustic phenomena to push the capacities of individual and collective sensorial experience. At iii, Yun programs workshops at the intersections of art, sound and technology.

Kay Churcher – Residency program coordinator/Project Space Manager – kay@instrumentinventors.org

Kay is a Scottish artist who recently graduated with a bachelor in ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Her work consists of site-specific immersive installations focusing on the experience of the audience, often with surreal elements. Kay manages the residency program and the project space at iii’s workspace during hosted events.

Lauren Jetty – Public Outreach – lauren@instrumentinventors.org

Lauren Jetty Howells-Green (UK) moved to The Hague in 2017 to study a Masters in ArtScience at KABK/KonCon. Her practice explores the cross-modality of sensory experience; how our senses can collaborate or contradict one another to form new, often surprising, experiences. She has a particular interest in olfaction and her most recent works have been an exploration into scent, sound and language. She has also been nominated for the 2020 Sadakichi Award for experimental work with scent.

Anastasia Loginova – International Agency Distribution – anastasia@instrumentinventors.org

Anastasia is a cultural producer and part-time artist with a keen interest in holistic and spiritual practice. Her strengths lie in curating and facilitating exhibitions and events as well as developing new partner relations. Having lived in many different countries and with dual nationality Anastasia is excellent at cross-cultural communication. She hold degrees in Art History, Art Business and ArtScience. In her artistic practice she focuses on communication with other entities and beings, namely plants and cabbages. She is also an avid writer and maintains a steady yoga practice.

Satoshi Shiraishi – Web Design

Satoshi Shiraishi is a Web Developer/Programmer based in The Hague, Holland. He has been working for over 5 years, developing a number of ambitious web apps and websites for clients such as Modernista!, Shoebaloo, VPRO, Todaysart, Maxalot, Bach Collegium Japan, The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration, and ArtScience Interfaculty. Because of his insight and skills in web programming in combination with his educational background in Interactive Media Design his focus is not only on how to build the website/app well but also on how it is experienced by the users (User Experience Design).

Tanja Busking – Videographer

Tanja Busking is a filmmaker mostly working in the field of artscience, technology, coding, dance and fashion. She produces promos, summary videos, teaser videos, website video backdrops, 360 video, music videos and documentaries. Tanja captures iii’s ephemeral events and documents the process of iii members and guest residents.

Pieter Kers – Photographer

As a photographer of cultural events since the 1980’s, Pieter Kers contributes his skills as a photographer to the field of art and science, working closely with artists and organisers. He is always looking for new ways to communicate concepts through images and enjoys working under challenging circumstances.

Evelina Domnitch

Nico Feragnoli

Nico Feragnoli is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer from Rome, Italy. At the core of his practice is not a focus on the production of artifacts but on translating and creating possibilities for cultural meaning through a multidisciplinary and curatorial activity. He is co-founder of 1646, project space for contemporary art in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Klaas Koetje

Klaas Koetje is a writer and primarily a fundamental video-artist. He also produces works that could be described as multitech. In his artworks he shows a profound interest in sound and the relation between image and sound. Next to that he occasionally shows up in performances both designed by himself and in collaboration with others. He lives and works in Groningen, Netherlands.

Olga Mink

Olga Mink is the director of Baltan Laboratories in Eindhoven, which initiates artistic research and development on the edges of disciplines in relation to pressing societal challenges. She developed exhibitions and projects as an independent curator for festivals like GLOW Next, Plaza plus, and Eindhoven maker faire, amongst others. She co-founded Age of Wonderland, a four year exchange program to boost global social innovation with creatives from Africa, Asia and Latin-America in collaboration with Hivos. Mink is currently affiliated as a researcher Design for Transformative Practices as part of Creative Economy at Fontys University of Applied Sciences.

Paul Koek

Paul Koek studied percussion at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He was part of numerous ensembles, including Hoketus with composer Louis Andriessen. After his studies, Koek was connected to Toneelgroep De Appel. In 1987 he joined Theatergroep Hollandia, of which he became co-artistic director in 1993. Within Hollandia he founded the Veenfabriek to stimulate the development of music theater. As a director, Koek made the performances Voet (2005) and Smekelingen (2006) and the location performance Her life her death (2007).