Welcome

Welcome to the (almost) monthly newsletter for members and associates of the Biofeedback Art Research Practice Network — a platform for sharing your work, offering collaboration, getting feedback, and finding professional opportunities. The newsletter serves to circulate news and support initiatives of the community members, so please feel encouraged to feed details regarding any relevant subject by using the feedback form.

Updates

Our website has been launched. Thank you all for providing photos and entries! … yet, more developments to come: to move forward with the website design and content of pages, your cooperation is needed with the following:

• Check your SPAM folders and see whether any emails from Krisztián Hofstädter went in there.
• Have a look at your member pages and send Krisztián a short bio if they haven’t yet. Also, include a few keywords for your profile so that we can set up a page filter for the dynamic grid.
• Suggest logo improvements if you have ideas/capacity to assist redesign.

Krisztián also may have reached out to you regarding interviews for the member page. You can find Krisztián’s interview here. And mine is available here.

Bay Area special:

• A biofeedback music workshop at Indexical on Aug 2nd-3rd, 2025;
• A screening of biofeedback performances from 1970s-90s at Gray Area in June 2025. Stay tuned for updates and announcements, to be out soon.

Events

A performance of Barbara Nerness at CCRMA, Stanford University; join in person or over Zoom on May 27th at 5 pm Pacific Time.

Opportunities

Conferences

14th EAI ArtsIT International Conference 2025, takes place on November 7-9th, 2025 in Dubai, UAE Heriot-Watt University. Deadline for individual paper submissions is June 1st; see the special track for biofeedback-focused works and papers.

PdMaxCon25, September 5-7 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is a celebration Pd’s and Max’s jubilees unfolding in the birthplace of algorithmic music and a hotspot of the 2nd wave cybernetics. The deadline for submissions was extended to June 1st.

Funding

If you’re a visual artist working with technology, consider applying for the Prospect Art. Submit a proposal by June 15, 2025, and, if selected, receive $1000 of financial support to realize your project.

Performance

Submissions for SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026 are open and due on June 1st, 2025.

“Other Dimensions in Sound” Series at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery: if you reside in the Bay Area or come around in the forthcoming months and would like to take advantage of a performance opportunity in San Francisco (Mission Dist.), please send me an email. Please note that all concerts of the series take place on Friday.

Residencies

Applications for the Artist-in-Residence Program at Exploratorium (SF) are open. Submit by May 30th, 2025.

Submit

Since Your agenda (work, news, CfPs, tools, etc.) for the next newsletter by filling out the form or initiate the discussion in the Google Group.

Also, please let us know if you have ideas or initiatives of what we can do in summer as a Network.