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localStyle

localStyle was founded in Amsterdam in 2000 by Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim. Their goal is to use the senses to trigger reassessment of existing situations, beginning in 2003 to address issues of climate change and resource extraction, and expanding since 2006 to focus on non-human others via themes as varied as the mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms, the sonification of electric fish from the Amazon, experimental Eurasian blackbird grammar, and the crisis facing coral reefs, whom they consider the voice of the Anthropocene. Their intermedia works—a practice that includes experimental 3D media, video, sound, interactive installations, live performance with electronics, audience participation, and site-specific sculpture—have been presented in museums, galleries, and alternative venues in more than forty cities worldwide. Festival presentations have included the National Art Museum of China’s (NAMOC) TransLife Triennial, STRP Festival, Visioni dal Futuro, Taipei Digital Art Festival, Ear Taxi Festival, Burning Man, and others.