sound ~ art ~ science ~ technology ecology ~ activism
Art/Science Projects
XENOLALIA
AQUATIC STATE
DISSENSE
OTHER/SELF
HAPTIC FIELD
ILINX
PLASM
NHWT
DISPLACE
ANHARMONIUM
PV868
OPTOFONICA CAPSULE
SOUND WORKS
TeZ is a veteran of electronic and experimental music and his early releases with M.S.B. and DOSERO date back to the early 90’s. Since 2010 TeZ has been a permanent member of Adi Newton’s seminal British band Clock DVA and a regular contributor with The AntiGroup.
His most recent music projects PRAGMA, SARMUNG, and BLACK BAMBOO mark TeZ’s return to his origins in the fringes of a more visceral Industrial, Ambient and Cosmic music.
LiTeZ is an adventurous collaboration with Canadian artist and musician Li Alin, started in 2024 as an improvisation experiment and evolving into a truly symbiotic and alchemical union.
TeZ’s solo live electronic performances, augmented by ambisonics spatial sound, are immersice experiences and voyages in genre-fluid sonic territories through generative compositions, de-constructed field recordings, hypnotic analog sequences and electro-acoustic manipulations.
TeZ has also collaborated with, among others, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Kim Cascone, Saverio Evangelista, Taylor Deupree, Fabio Orsi, Saverio Rosi, Honor Harger, Luca Spagnoletti, Joe Drive and Domenico Sciajno.
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LAB
The world is navigating an era of profound challenges—ranging from escalating environmental crises, such as global warming and biodiversity loss, to complex socio-political upheavals that threaten global stability and equity. These interconnected issues highlight the need for holistic approaches that bridge the natural, mental, and social dimensions of ecology. To address these urgent and overlapping crises effectively, we must adopt innovative, interdisciplinary strategies that integrate science, technology, and creativity, underpinned by principles of accessibility, DIY (Do-It-Yourself) methodologies, and Open-Source -insipired collaborations.
In response to these needs, TeZ envisions an Art/Science project space, a dynamic and collaborative environment where artists, designers, scientists, engineers, educators and learners from diverse disciplines and expertise converge. This space serves as a platform to experiment and develop practical solutions to critical questions surrounding environmental sustainability, social well-being, and psycho-physical resilience. By fostering cross-disciplinary partnerships, this initiative inspires actionable ideas that respond to the complexities of our time. Importantly, in the context of an emerging multi-polar world, such spaces hold the potential to nurture a new generation of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers equipped to address local and global challenges.
LEARN
For the past 20 years TeZ has engaged with educational endeavors worldwide at various prestigious institutions, aimed at inspiring new generations of creative thinkers, designers, makers and thinkerers to imagine "out-of-the-box" solutions that merge art, science, technology and ecology through generative and evolutive strategies.
HUB
Institutes, collectives, labs and resources with whom TeZ has ongoing collaborations and dialogues.
INFO
Maurizio Martinucci (aka TeZ) is an Italian interdisciplinary artist, musician and independent researcher, living and working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. TeZ is regularly showing his work and giving workshops and lectures at both academic and artistic contexts. His installations and performances have been featured at major venues, museums and festivals worldwide including Ars Electronica and Lentos Kunstmuseum / Linz, BIAN / Montreal, Gropius Bau / Berlin, Chronus Art Center / Shanghai, ArtScience Museum / Singapore among others. He’s been running the Optofonica Lab for Synesthetic ArtScience in Amsterdam since 2006.
TeZ explores the boundaries between human perception and all physical phenomena associated with vibrations. He crafts custom generative software and hardware instruments and fixtures for acoustic, optical, haptic and olfactory stimulation, as well as environments and architectural structures where subtle oscillations can reach the body and enable multi sensory immersive experiences.
TeZ is also active member of HACKTERIA International Society involved in BioArt and Open Hardware. His recent artwork XENOLALIA - in collaboration with artist, writer and professor Sofian Audry - explores the relationship between living microorganisms and Artificial Intelligence systems. With the SOLARPUNK LAB project/platform TeZ is promoting holistic paradigms to explore and experiment methods that enable citizens to critical thinking and strategic autonomy, resistance and resilience.
