Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and researcher. Born in Indonesia, he is currently based in Hong Kong. His main focus is on the relationship between human-nonhuman and technology, consumer electronics, extractivism, and theory-fiction. Through his works, he questions the notion of (a)temporality, image politics, materiality, media archaeology and unanticipated consequences of technologies. He is also actively composing and performing sonic-fiction using the methods of field recording and foley through programming language. Riar has also curated ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival — Penal Colony (2017) and Internet of (No)Things (2018) at Jogja National Museum. He is also a co-founder of an art collective SALON, in which a platform focusing on exploration and experimentation in the field of media, performance, experimental music and improvisation in Bandung, Indonesia.
We seek for the unknown, the unpredictable, the genuine, and the obsessively-creative-driven.