The artist Ioana Vreme Moser and the curator Diane Pricop are the participants of the Research Lab 2025 under the (working) title ‘Fluidic cookbook’ . In short, the ‘Fluidic cookbook’ embarks on an intimate visual and written essay on an alternative history of computer hardware by reviving fluidics, a mid-20th-century innovation. It dreams of a future where machines are made of air and water instead of rare earths. The artistic research investigates an alternative, obsolete technology named fluidics that was developed in parallel with electronics and abandoned because it couldn’t operate as fast as its mineral counterpart. The inquiry opens as an imaginative and speculative exercise in which computers become fluid.
During the next two weeks, Ioana and Diane will delve deeper in the theme by identifying relevant historical elements, break down the process of building its morphology, and explore the relevancy of this model with the aim of making this research more comprehensive to a wider public.
There are 2 separate objectives to this Research Lab :
- Produce a draft for a future publication
- Determine how to disseminate these methods through an open source tool kit
With this in mind, there will be milestones events accompany this Residency :
_> A presentation of the cookbook on 16.04 at 18:00 at Clubraum STWST
This talk follows the seductive forms that fluidic circuits assume, forms that can reimagine the morphologies of our current electronic machines. These alluring curvilinear morphologies swirl, whistle and pulse almost in defiance to the rectangular circuit boards that dominate our digital machines and their histories. This talk will focus on fluidics as a future alternative to electronics and reveal a parallel history in which technology tunes into natural cycles rather than overrides them.
_> Open Labs on 17.04 and 18.04 from 16:00 to 18:00 at Clubraum STWST
These workshops are dedicated to analysing and putting in practice the methods of assembling the morphology. We recommend attending the previous event in order to optimise the assimilation to the processes.
For registrations please contact: office@servus.at
For more info on the topic, we invite you to take a look at this article published in the latest Versorgerin.
Short Bios
Ioana Vreme Moser (DE/RO)
Ioana Vreme Moser (b. 1994) is a Romanian sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation. In her practice, she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, synthesised sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on electronics' history, production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world.
Amongst others, she has performed and exhibited at ZKM (DE), Singuhr (DE), National Gallery of Denmark (DK), Fonderie Darling (CA), Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE); Manifesta 14 (XK); SFX - Sound Effects Seoul (KR), Ars Electronica (AT), Simultan Festival (RO); Eigen+Art Lab Berlin (DE).
Links: www.ioanavrememoser.com, Instagram @ioana.vreme.moser
Diane Pricop / Obsolete Studio
After an early career in cultural programming for multifunctional venues and independent community spaces, Diane co-founded Obsolete Studio in 2019 that promotes artist-researchers and projects addressing the entanglement between environmental, social and technological challenges, through educational programmes, interdisciplinary research projects and her blog. She is now based in Bucharest where she focuses on developing art-science based projects such as residencies, art production and exhibitions, as well as European collaborations.