Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan met in 2016 through a mutual network of artists, architects and researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. Hochschuh has an architectural background in digital design and robotic fabrication, exploring architectural geometries, algorithms, swarm simulation and interactivity. Donovan is highly specialised in the fields of robotics and scientific acoustics, researching focused acoustics and acoustic lenses in multiple fields of his artistic practice.

As a duo Hochschuh and Donovan exhibited “Curious Tautophone – Tensor field Ontology” as part of Experimenta Make Sense in Australia and have performed at major European sound art festivals in Croatia, Poland and Slovenia. As part of the European Media Art Platform EMAP/ EMARE they had a residency with Kontejner in Zagreb, during which they developed the current state of their ongoing project “Empathy Swarm” which will grow to a swarm of 100 members.

Together Hochschuh and Donovan create sophisticated robotic mechanisms that play with the unobtrusive uncanny systems within us. Their works and machines invoke an otherness or timelessness that is only present in the here and now.