https://lucystrauss.com Lucy Strauss Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:18:25 +0000 https://lucystrauss.com en https://lucystrauss.com/Lucy-Strauss-1 Tue, 25 May 2021 19:54:18 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/Lucy-Strauss-1 Lucy Strauss INFORMATION:&nbsp;about&nbsp;︎&nbsp;publications&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;contact&nbsp;︎ <img width="960" height="1200" width_o="960" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb30b2142f968e83af5dfcdb5e6e640f35e08f553b31c26173f07487e056d9a9/IMG_4826.jpeg" data-mid="225721348" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/eb30b2142f968e83af5dfcdb5e6e640f35e08f553b31c26173f07487e056d9a9/IMG_4826.jpeg" /> PROJECT/PRACTICE ARCHIVE: VLA + MLMLMLM︎gained in translation︎ &nbsp;realms&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;night swim&nbsp;︎ amass ︎ &nbsp;signal space&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;improvisation&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;tele-improvisation&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;sonic response&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;darkroom performances&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;instance&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;video archive&nbsp;︎ &nbsp;&nbsp; project blog ︎ I have recently been found here:︎ Göteborg ︎&nbsp;London ︎ Cape Town https://lucystrauss.com/bio Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:54:03 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/bio ︎︎︎ &nbsp;about&nbsp; Lucy Strauss is a musician and researcher drawing together viola performance, impovisation, composition &amp; creative computing. With these practices, she seeks to deepen understanding of musicmaking with new and old technologies. Lucy has performed in improvised and experimental music projects at Pony Books (Gothenburg), the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Mixtophonics Festival, 8EAST Cultural Center &amp; NOW Society (Vancouver), De Tanker (Amsterdam), Hundred Years Gallery (London), and Theatre Arts (Cape Town). She also enjoys contributing to interdisciplinary collaborations with fellow artists. Notably, she was the interaction designer for Denise Onen’s sounding the body as a sight at The Oscillations Exhibition 2024 (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). Also notably, Lucy has coded, composed and played for installations by artist Mia Thom at Everard Read Gallery, Act of Brutal Curation Gallery, and Eclectica Contemporary (Cape Town), as well as the 2022 Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain (Dakar). Lucy has presented workshops on composition (University of British Columbia), improvisation (Canadian Viola Society) and interactive music technology (Bowed Electrons Festival &amp; Symposium).&nbsp; Recent highlights include a ︎student artist residency at TATE in London and a ︎studio recording residency at at The Studio for Electroacoustic Music, Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Lucy learnt to love improvising at the MusicDance021 artist residency (ZA). She further developed her improvisation practice at 8EAST &amp; Now Society (CA). She learnt to compose music at the University of Cape Town (BMus) and perform viola at the University of British Columbia (MMus). For two years, Lucy was an Artist in Residence at the University of Johannesburg (ZA). She is currently an AHRC CHASE -funded PhD researcher in Arts &amp; Computational Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). She specialises in deep generative modeling of audio &amp; electromyographic signals from viola performance, towards cross-modal muscle-sound machine translation in interactive music system design. Lucy is based in Gothenburg (SE) and London (UK). ︎ CV ︎ artist statement&nbsp;︎ headshots&nbsp; <img width="8688" height="5792" width_o="8688" height_o="5792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5be0dbed675543932fa3559e4b0cca24abc760c7408cd9471de39c1565315e6/1R0A8708_edit.jpg" data-mid="245222536" border="0" alt="photo by Mia Thom" data-caption="photo by Mia Thom" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5be0dbed675543932fa3559e4b0cca24abc760c7408cd9471de39c1565315e6/1R0A8708_edit.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="759" width_o="1024" height_o="759" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e1d24c2d6dc1db2e894d805def79b6b032e732b3f757b3d6135912a2ce9edf2/e5578f7e-bc5c-43c7-8e47-4784643b4b0a.JPG" data-mid="219891216" border="0" alt="photo by Mia Thom" data-caption="photo by Mia Thom" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e1d24c2d6dc1db2e894d805def79b6b032e732b3f757b3d6135912a2ce9edf2/e5578f7e-bc5c-43c7-8e47-4784643b4b0a.JPG" /> <img width="8688" height="5792" width_o="8688" height_o="5792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed9d3651c45bdb4fee42cb49dd800931e20872611df5f020ecb6defc3b276282/1R0A8718_edit.jpg" data-mid="245222537" border="0" alt="photo by Mia Thom" data-caption="photo by Mia Thom" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed9d3651c45bdb4fee42cb49dd800931e20872611df5f020ecb6defc3b276282/1R0A8718_edit.jpg" /> https://lucystrauss.com/contact Sat, 12 Sep 2020 07:33:16 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/contact find me on Instagram: ︎send me an email: &nbsp;︎ read my newsletter: https://lucystrauss.com/projects Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:07:57 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/projects PROJECTS ︎︎︎ https://lucystrauss.com/mlmlmlm Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:18:25 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/mlmlmlm MLMLMLMWhat if listening happened through muscles instead of ears? <img width="1200" height="400" width_o="1200" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59a35ce56958ea4b30624300dba2cbbb52e46ec91ce1c4a59d60d80d2f93c910/teaser_image_light.png" data-mid="245756074" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59a35ce56958ea4b30624300dba2cbbb52e46ec91ce1c4a59d60d80d2f93c910/teaser_image_light.png" /> The Muscle-Listening Machine Learning Model for Live Music (MLMLMLM) is a novel deep generative model for muscle-sound machine translation. MLMLMLM is trained on a dataset of audio and EMG signals collected from my own body, during an artist residency at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin in July 2025.VLA + MLMLMLMMLMLMLM is situated within my music performance / composition / improvisation practice. I present MLMLMLM in live performance settings. VLA + MLMLMLM is a performance piece featuring live viola and the Muscle-Listening Machine Learning Model for Live Music (MLMLMLM), a novel deep generative model for muscle-sound machine translation. I interface with MLMLMLM through electromyographic sensors. MLMLMLM generates a sonic interpretation of live viola playing informed by the muscular bioelectricity of musical movement. The model ‘listens’ to the performance without ‘hearing’ sound. With a human-centred approach to computing, VLA + MLMLMLM brings to light experiential dimensions of viola playing that are typically hidden from the audience. As such, we listen through emergent aesthetics of machine listening -- through muscles. &nbsp; Publication: Strauss, L., Thattai Ravikumar, P., Yee-King, M. ‘Cross-Modal Sig2Sig Machine Translation with Deep Generative Modeling for NIME Design’. International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2026. [accepted] past performances: 21/03/2026 | Delft, NL | For Love of the World: Digital Revolt @ TU Delft 26/02/2026 | Göteborg, SE | Open Process Night @ Skogen 29/11/2025 | Cape Town, ZA | Bowed Electrons Festival &amp; Symposium https://lucystrauss.com/tech-tea-exchange Wed, 21 May 2025 13:56:10 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/tech-tea-exchange Gained In Translation words prompt soundssounds prompt words&nbsp; <img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c39e7c08cee95b67e7b3cc3a2d61383bbef78f21f992b5b7c9e1c256ac1c07df/DSCF7403.JPG" data-mid="235035584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c39e7c08cee95b67e7b3cc3a2d61383bbef78f21f992b5b7c9e1c256ac1c07df/DSCF7403.JPG" /> <img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d422f71049890e4880f16c599b93ac1c1ec77dae274294f23b4abba07895da4/DSCF6879.JPG" data-mid="235035579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d422f71049890e4880f16c599b93ac1c1ec77dae274294f23b4abba07895da4/DSCF6879.JPG" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5532384e60290052495489fa5225810b30807d4f2d8147a76f4ef8645e55264a/Screenshot-from-2025-05-11-16-05-08.png" data-mid="233524079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5532384e60290052495489fa5225810b30807d4f2d8147a76f4ef8645e55264a/Screenshot-from-2025-05-11-16-05-08.png" /> <img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4312d944027cdfdba3189ca2ba32202157ef2d4c1ee6f1f1073036a368a8eb8a/DSCF7408.JPG" data-mid="235035582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4312d944027cdfdba3189ca2ba32202157ef2d4c1ee6f1f1073036a368a8eb8a/DSCF7408.JPG" /> <img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9dc38bfaea2e9c897c7c2911046f563f68d64a60a54e89e71893dee915ce730/DSCF6380.JPG" data-mid="233523526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9dc38bfaea2e9c897c7c2911046f563f68d64a60a54e89e71893dee915ce730/DSCF6380.JPG" /> <img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d0d1c5ceb9a44cc4815426c90ea9ee6ed3bfe243a55ac8b0d665e4186f3b601/DSCF7405.JPG" data-mid="235035583" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d0d1c5ceb9a44cc4815426c90ea9ee6ed3bfe243a55ac8b0d665e4186f3b601/DSCF7405.JPG" /> <img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81853f0207f518684b5028ccf7e34722c57849e6771fd4cc8f8bfae3c4da86d1/DSCF6459.JPG" data-mid="233523520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81853f0207f518684b5028ccf7e34722c57849e6771fd4cc8f8bfae3c4da86d1/DSCF6459.JPG" /> <img width="5152" height="7728" width_o="5152" height_o="7728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7628fec7bd0ede7f431049ea83bf4c8eafc39e1c75c539fc84d720361717e046/DSCF6882.JPG" data-mid="235035578" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7628fec7bd0ede7f431049ea83bf4c8eafc39e1c75c539fc84d720361717e046/DSCF6882.JPG" /> photos by Robin Leverton Gained In Translation is a music &amp; text performance piece that I made in May 2025 for the Tech, Tea &amp; Exchange residency at Tate.* The piece comprises different Machine Learning (ML) models strung together to form a recursive loop. The loop begins with human input: a short musical phrase that I play on viola in response to a text score. text as scoreI generate a text description from the viola audio, then generate audio using the generated text as a prompt... and the loop continues. Each performance is unique in how it unfolds and evolves because the initial input is improvised and there is a degree of stochasity (chance) in the ML model architectures.failure to copy <img width="7802" height="5851" width_o="7802" height_o="5851" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cd40032a255da7deffb36aeb709c86fa31643970509204707eca33248db5e7a/looper-demo-2.jpg" data-mid="233523908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cd40032a255da7deffb36aeb709c86fa31643970509204707eca33248db5e7a/looper-demo-2.jpg" /> cross-modal translation as meta-composition I use translation between modalities (sound and text) as a meta-compositional technique, where the failure to reproduce gradually tansforms a single musical idea. While reproduction accuracy is an important element of evaluation in generative ML model training, the goal of artworks is usually not to reproduce, but to greate something physically or conceptually new. I place these two contradictory viewpoints on the nature and goals of reproduction side by side. In this way, Gained In Translation grew from the points of tension between artistic practice and technical practice. what is gained in translation?*The Tech, Tea &amp; Exchange residency was supported by Anthropic and Gucci. I provide a︎Github repository for this project. examples The piece is different each time it is performed, even if the initial audio is identical: In the example videos, the generated text features references to battle and to music practices that I have no connection to. These references emerged as a result of the class labels of the pre-trained YAMNet model, and were likely further amplified by the recursive loop between the (also pre-trained) Stable Audio and Claude AI models featured in this piece. I would never have purposefully guided the piece towards violent themes and cultural appropriation. However, I have intentionally left these emergent themes in the piece to reveal nature of the models and their training datasets. models &amp; datasets YAMNet - a sound classification model from TensorFlow The model is trained to predict the most probable sound in an audio waveform. We can predict sounds from a pre-recorded sound file (as I do for the tech demo version of Gained in Translation) or from an incoming stream of audio (as I do in the Gained in Translaton performance). dataset - "AudioSet consists of an expanding ontology of 632 audio event classes and a collection of 2,084,320 human-labeled 10-second sound clips drawn from YouTube videos" https://research.google.com/audioset/ Claude 3.7 Sonnet - a large language model created by Anthropic dataset - "Training data includes public internet information, non-public data from third-parties, contractor-generated data, and internally created data. When Anthropic's general purpose crawler obtains data by crawling public web pages, we follow industry practices with respect to robots.txt instructions that website operators use to indicate whether they permit crawling of the content on their sites. We did not train this model on any user prompt or output data submitted to us by users or customers." - https://www.anthropic.com/transparency Stable Audio 2.0 (text &amp; audio-to-audio) dataset - "AudioSparx is an industry-leading music library and stock audio web site that brings together a world of music and sound effects from thousands of independent music artists, producers, bands and publishers in a hot online marketplace." https://www.audiosparx.com/ https://lucystrauss.com/realms Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:24:42 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/realms REALMS Realm of Tensors and Spruce is a new music project created and performed by Lucy Strauss. The project explores and extends the sonic possibilities of the viola with live acoustic playing and electroacoustics. With this palette of practices, she builds and transforms soundworlds entirely from viola audio. The resulting performance melds between improvised and composed structures. Realms: an allusion to Lucy's compositional approach of building soundworlds.@ Theatre Arts, Cape Town: 15 December 2024&nbsp;For this show, I presented this work first in a performance setting, then as an interactive sound installation using a game controller to afford audience members the chance to explore and influence a soundworld generated in real-time. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; @ Pony Books, Gothenburg: 11 October 2024I performed an early version of Realms at Pony Books, a multi-lingual queer &amp; arts bookshop and member space in Gothenburg, Sweden. The concert began at dusk on an Autumn Friday evening. I played the set, then we held a Q&amp;A session. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/904ff4872b911d773cf2f18e65f610750e76c0ae9e986ab4a51665d90ddf2458/set-up-before-concert.jpeg" data-mid="235036262" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/904ff4872b911d773cf2f18e65f610750e76c0ae9e986ab4a51665d90ddf2458/set-up-before-concert.jpeg" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/925970b0331b00526ead0a5c90b1ca43f711f552fb9e5651b4ba13513b7920b6/set-up-before-concert-2.jpeg" data-mid="235036263" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/925970b0331b00526ead0a5c90b1ca43f711f552fb9e5651b4ba13513b7920b6/set-up-before-concert-2.jpeg" /> The elevator pitch for this project is that every single sound comes from the live viola, from the acoustic sounds in the concert space, to electroacoustic process. &nbsp; The promotional material for the Pony Books concert. Aside from the usual digital places, the concert information was shared on an actual piece of paper for people to find in the bookshop leading up to the event.<img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32d4d93ebf1db438c78af113e760a2ced8e645d9eca219c8acf57383380c16e2/IMG_3997.jpeg" data-mid="235036261" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32d4d93ebf1db438c78af113e760a2ced8e645d9eca219c8acf57383380c16e2/IMG_3997.jpeg" /> https://lucystrauss.com/night-swim Wed, 01 Sep 2021 05:12:42 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/night-swim ︎︎︎ Night SwimCheck out my ︎Project Blog page on this website for some behind the scenes content on the making of Night Swim. Night Swim is a sight-specific installation work by Mia Thom in collaboration with Lucy Strauss and Clare Patrick. The installation was premiered at the Art of Brutal Curation gallery (Cape Town, August - September 2021) and was selected for installation at the Everard Read gallery group show (Cape Town, December 2021).&nbsp; <img width="1024" height="577" width_o="1024" height_o="577" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fc79cdd8de8b8991582be0ee0a88ac89a5d847df758238e1c703c33bdb29708/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.18.13.jpeg" data-mid="117976032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fc79cdd8de8b8991582be0ee0a88ac89a5d847df758238e1c703c33bdb29708/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.18.13.jpeg" /> Plunging participants into a monochromatic, blue environment, this experimental installation comprises of three large scale sculptures which function as speakers to lie on. Composed and coded by Lucy Strauss, these forms emit a soundscape of strings, room tone and voice, transformed by geophyscial data from the South Atlantic ocean. <img width="1024" height="594" width_o="1024" height_o="594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68bb7e19f8a912a2166631123ab0c242bd529524b084102acda53512e445f6b6/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.18.13-1.jpeg" data-mid="117976031" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68bb7e19f8a912a2166631123ab0c242bd529524b084102acda53512e445f6b6/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.18.13-1.jpeg" /> The sonic materials of the soundscape comprise audio captured from broken violin, viola, cello and contrabass strings; composed fragments for voice and viola based on the acoustic modes of the installation space; and viola improvisations. The collected acoustic materials are placed in an environment constructed from geophysical data from the South Atlantic ocean. Machine learning algorithms in Wekinator trigger the collected audio materials and perform transformations in the time and frequency domain, in accordance with ocean’s fluctuations and developments in time. <img width="1024" height="611" width_o="1024" height_o="611" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2239b1901debf0ecfbc2eae9a3550f910dd157c228444f1eec6bba6e2230f91/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.18.33.jpeg" data-mid="117976033" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2239b1901debf0ecfbc2eae9a3550f910dd157c228444f1eec6bba6e2230f91/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.18.33.jpeg" /> Night Swim also utilizes&nbsp;Latent Timbre Synthesis (LTS), a new audio synthesis method using Deep Learning. We used LTS to interpolate between the timbres of the raw sonic materials, and set the interpolation curve according to fluctuations in the ocean data. This curve determines how much each sound has an effect on the resulting synthesized sound. A person experiencing&nbsp;Night Swim will hear the raw sonic materials, as well as synthesized audio that lies somewhere between these materials. For example, one could hear a sound that exists somewhere between two different human voices; a human voice and a viola; or a viola and a broken bass string. <img width="1024" height="543" width_o="1024" height_o="543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13aba98cedaa524d95328a546f0016c4c67a324001968ccefba1289fefecce29/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.15.56.jpeg" data-mid="117976077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13aba98cedaa524d95328a546f0016c4c67a324001968ccefba1289fefecce29/WhatsApp-Image-2021-08-29-at-04.15.56.jpeg" /> https://lucystrauss.com/signal-space Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:13:12 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/signal-space Signal Space Signal Space by Lucy Strauss Signal Space is an electroacoustic piece that I composed for the 2023 Bowed Electrons Festival &amp; Symposium. The piece functions as a composition study where I apply the concept of 'data as design material' in music composition. This concept comes from soma-design methodology, where the design process is guided by bodily practices and grounded in a designer's lived experience. In addition to being a complete work on its own, this piece informs the design process for an interactive music system that I am making. In this way, I use composition as a design method. In this piece, I use data recordings of the electrical activity from of own muscle contractions (electromyographic) and heartbeat (electrocardiographic). The composition comprises two sections: in the first section, I use this bioelectric data as sound material. In the second, the data functions as control signals applied to pre-recorded samples of viola audio. The piece begins with a raw sonified electromyographic signal. We hear the signal as it is with very little filtering. Gradually, a swishing sound reveals itself. This is the same raw signal, but it has been analysed and separated into different frequency bands. We can now understand the raw signal as a rich combination of many bioelectric impulses (known in neuroscience as action-potentials), shooting through multiple muscle fibers all at once. We then hear the most prominent frequencies within each ‘swish’ as a collection of clicks and pops. These signals then introduce glitches in short loops of viola samples through continuous controll of the loop start and end points (in the audio sample tracks). These glitches occasionally create new synthesized pitches. Towards the end of the piece, my heartbeat grounds the music in contrast to the chaos of the glitching loops. Finally, only my heartbeat remains. By delving into data as design material I hope to deepen understandings of the underlying bodily processes inside our bodies as living beings. By doing so through music, we can gain nuanced, tacit understandings that may difficult to articulate with language or quantitative methods. https://lucystrauss.com/darkroom-performances Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:04:25 +0000 Lucy Strauss https://lucystrauss.com/darkroom-performances &nbsp;︎︎︎ darkroom performances [composing for dark spaces] Since 2017, I have featured as a composer and performer in artist Mia Thom’s&nbsp;Darkroom Performances. Mia Thom (violin),&nbsp;Jessica Scott (cello)&nbsp;Lucy Strauss (viola) &amp; Estelle Roux (broken piano) The series consists of three separate works: Invisible Motifs (2019), Nocturne for a Camera Obscura (2018) &amp; Voices from the Darkroom (2017). Each work is performed in complete darkness, and features sampled photographic dark-room electromagnetic frequencies through a multi-channel speaker system. <img width="2048" height="1356" width_o="2048" height_o="1356" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb15e61cbbce90826d48463c247511babcd6a8b3ecbe7b92cba5889ce2020077/25074917_10210967359481793_6641376998424306489_o.jpg" data-mid="82067741" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb15e61cbbce90826d48463c247511babcd6a8b3ecbe7b92cba5889ce2020077/25074917_10210967359481793_6641376998424306489_o.jpg" />[photo: Mia Thom] We have presented Darkroom Performances at the ORMS Photographic Gallery (Cape Town School of Photography, 2019), Eclectica Contemporary Gallery (2018), and the Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town, 2017).