WITCiH co-founder, BISHI performs at WITCiH -The State of Gender? Festival with Output Arts.

Gazelle Twin giving a talk on her work at ‘WITCiH -The State of Gender?’

Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Bernholz, a British composer, producer and musician from Brighton, England. Elizabeth will be presenting a lecture on the making of her forthcoming 'Pastoral,' audiovisual project which covers topics as diverse exploring fascism and horror in the English landscape past and present, the creative process from writing to recording/production, and identity as a working artist and Mother.

Chagall performing some new VR work for ‘WITCiH - The State of Gender?’

Rebekah Ubuntu was a commissioned artist at '‘WITCiH - The State of Gender?’

Her piece was a tribute to Mae Carol Jemison, an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel in space when she served as an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Di Mainstone gave an illuminating lecture on her work & life as an artist.

Artist & Movician, Di Mainstone creates sonic sculptures, that extend from the body and trigger sound via movement... The New York Times has featured Di Mainstone as one of the “new generation visionaries” of the international digital arts scene. A global ambassador for audio brand Sennheiser, Di Mainstone is artist in residence at Queen Mary University London where she collaborates with researchers from the Centre for Digital Music and Media Arts & Technology group, to develop new musical instruments that are inspired by the body, transforming physical movement into sound via digital technology. Di has invented the term “Movician” to describe the player of these instruments – a hybrid artist who explores and composes sound through movement.

Vicky O’Neon was a commissioned artist at ‘WITCiH - The State of Gender?’

Finnish born Vicky O’Neon (Österberg) is an award-winning percussionist, drummer and performance artist based in London graduated from the renowned UK music college BIMM . She has taken her music skills touring extensively with different artists and DJ's internationally and in the UK. Vicky’s performance credits include Hans Zimmer , Pharrell Williams, Elle Style Awards and 02 Academy.

Lia Mice performing at ‘WITCiH - The State of Gender?’

Gazelle Twin headlining ‘WITCiH - The State of Gender?’

Miri Kat performing an entirely live coded set at Tate Modern.

Producer, Hacker, Livecoder, AV Artist based in London. Miri Kat mainly works with Max/MSP Supercollider & found sounds. Her focus is on the creation of unique and immersive sound and multimedia experiences.

Lia Mice performing at Uniqlo Tate Lates at Tate Modern.

London-based producer, DJ and instrument designer Lia Mice was recently crowned “one of the pioneers of experimental pop” by Live And Die In Music, with praise for her newest LP I Love You appearing all over including in Entertainment Weekly, MTV and Life + Times. A doctoral candidate at the MAT Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary London, Lia is currently producing her third solo LP, a selection of kaleidoscopic experimental-dance/weird-pop cuts created on analog samplers during her Master's research into the sampler as a time machine.

We had a wonderful audience for WITCiH at Uniqlo Tate Lates, Tate Modern.

WITCiH co-founder, BISHI performing at Uniqlo Tate Lates, Tate Modern.

Makeup Artist, Performance Artist & Vocalist with Lone Taxidermist, who's album, 'Trifle,' is out now. She recently contributed vocals & live performance to Gazelle Twin's JG Ballard inspired, 'Kingdom Come,' project as well as working on costume & conceptual designs for Jenny Hval. 

Finnish born Vicky O’Neon (Österberg) is an award-winning percussionist, drummer and performance artist based in London graduated from the renowned UK music college BIMM . She has taken her music skills touring extensively with different artists and DJ's internationally and in the UK
Vicky’s performance credits include Hans Zimmer , Pharrell Williams, Elle Style Awards and 02 Academy. 

Omnii is a collective based in London, aiming to inspire women to operate in all aspects of music production. We currently run workshops within Goldsmiths College, 
University of London and at various locations around SE London. We will soon be expanding our reach through events and new collaborations, as well as further developing our ongoing blog and interview series

Makeup Artist, Performance Artist & Vocalist with Lone Taxidermist, who's album, 'Trifle,' is out now. She recently contributed vocals & live performance to Gazelle Twin's JG Ballard inspired, 'Kingdom Come,' project as well as working on costume & conceptual designs for Jenny Hval.

Finnish born Vicky O’Neon (Österberg) is an award-winning percussionist, drummer and performance artist based in London graduated from the renowned UK music college BIMM . She has taken her music skills touring extensively with different artists and DJ's internationally and in the UK
Vicky’s performance credits include Hans Zimmer , Pharrell Williams, Elle Style Awards and 02 Academy. 

Kat Five aka Terry Tyldesley is a musician, songwriter, and producer, with a playful and politically-charged approach to making music about technology. She sings about 3D printing humans, x-ray crystallography, and laser fusion, and weaves technological experimentation through her work.

Dr. Jenn Kirby is an Irish composer, performer, software developer and academic based in Swansea. Her work ranges from instrumental composition, to electroacoustic, to laptop orchestra and the performance of live electronics. Jenn's work explores elements of theatricality, humour and subversion. Jenn works as the Programme Director for Music Performance and Production at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, where she teaches composition and music technology.

Jenn’s research is largely focused on the performance of electronic music. The output from which includes the foundation of the Swansea Laptop Orchestra. Another aspect of her research output is the creation of software for new music performance and the re-purposing of controllers and interfaces as musical performance instruments.

Empress Stah is an internationally renowned Aerial Artist, Cabaret Performer, Show Producer and Director, famed for her unique stage shows, with a glittering career spanning 18 years and counting.

Highlights of this journey include collaborating with cult rock star, Peaches, on the aerial performance ‘Stargasm / Light in Places’, Arts Council funded show ‘Empress Stah in Space’ at the Soho Theatre

The work of Zarah Hussain is at the intersection between science and spirituality, combining contemporary digital art with a rigorous training in traditional Islamic geometry drawn by hand. Her work encompasses a range of forms, from looping infinite animations made with code, to sculpture, painting and interactive apps. Her work uses mathematics that celebrate the order and structure found in the universe to create a range of work based on infinite repeating patterns.

Her most recent project was a large scale sculpture projected with a digital animation. Numina was commissioned by the Barbican for their foyer spaces programme in 2016. Numina combined designs found in the art of Islamic world with contemporary digital arts by mapping animated geometric patterns onto a sculpture composed of tessellating pyramids arranged on a hexagonal grid.

Aphra Shemza is a London based media artist working with abstraction, interactivity and light. Seeking to express herself through radical new technologies, Shemza’s work explores the way in which we might use these tools to imagine what the role of art could be in the future.

Since graduating in 2012, Shemza has exhibited widely in and around the capital, often showing work with Lights of Soho and Kinetica Museum. Her work has been featured in a number of publications and press, most notably Tate Etc and Time Out. In 2016 she completed two public commissions: one for the Canary Wharf Group in One Canada Square, Canary Wharf and another Champagne Louis Roederer, which was exhibited in the Shangri’La Hotel, in the Shard, London until January 2017.

Leslie Deere performing Modern Conjuring
for Amateurs at WITCiH
A shared experience, conjuring up sound and visuals through movement. Sound and image are controlled through gesture by way of Kinect camera and bespoke software.

Maria Almena is a multidisciplinary artist, founder and creative director of Kimatica Studio.
Since 2012, the London-based creative studio has been working at the intersection of the human body, performance and interactive technology.

WITCiH co founder, BISHI performing at WITCiH, December Salon.

Anat Ben-David performing songs from her Opera 'Kairos' inspired by Sadie Plant's, 'Zeros & Ones.'

Mira Calix talks about recent works and key drivers in her practice, both artistically and technologically in a special lecture for WITCiH.

Ana Matronic, of Scissor Sisters, premiered a special lecture for the first ever WITCiH, about the use of Female Gendered Robots in Science Fiction & Pop Culture. This was related to her marvellous book ‘Robot Takeover: 100 Iconic Robots of Myth, Popular Culture & Real Life.’

Chagall is a vocalist, songwriter & electronic music producer. At The first ever WITCiH, She spoke about her journey as a music producer & spoke about her involvement with mi.mu gloves