The New York Times has featured Di Mainstone as one of the “new generation visionaries” of the international digital arts scene.
Artist and researcher, Di Mainstone creates body-centric sculptures, designed to initiate movement and storytelling. Many of these wearable artefacts are inspired by technology.
Some of them release sound when handled. Often, they can be modified to create new silhouettes, environments and functionalities. All of them tell a story.
Di 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. Di’s body-centric devices have been performed at home and abroad, most notably at The V&A, The Barbican, The National Portrait Gallery, Eyebeam NYC and the Swedish National Touring Theatre.
Human Harp. Courtesy of Di Mainstone
Serendipitichord. Courtesy of Di Mainstone
Hollipophead. Photo courtesy of Toby Summerskill
Vi-Rigami. Courtesy of Di Mainstone
Words & Numbers. Courtesy of Di Mainstone
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