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EQUINOX - Installations and Concert at KTH Reaktorhallen

Equinox poster
Published Mar 12, 2026

Celebrating the astronomical equinox and the arrival of spring, Equinox is a curated showcase featuring artists from the NAVET community.

Installations: 19–21 March → Free drop-in during visiting hours. ​Lost Ether radio walks sign-up: www.nortic.se/ticket/show/325826
Concert: Friday, 20 March → Tickets: www.nortic.se/ticket/event/79664

Read about the artists, tickets, and the full schedule below. 

INSTALLATIONS

A number of installations will be on display during Equinox from Thursday, March 19, to Saturday, March 21. All exhibits are free to visit, read below for details.

The Lost Ether radio walks are also free, but sign-up is required: www.nortic.se/ticket/show/325826 .

Radio transmitter and cables

Lost Ether (2025)

Lost Ether is a transmission-based installation exploring the history and materiality of radio. The work employs local-range FM transmitters, each broadcasting a segment of an audio essay that traces how the historical understanding of “ether” shifted from a propagating medium to discrete waveforms—and lost in a transitional period of physics where nonlinear scientific narratives emerged.

Presented in the R1 Reaktor Hall, where all external wireless signals are isolated, the audience experiences the spatial and material properties of radio. Moving through the space while listening via handheld FM receivers, one can sense the peripheries of transmission zones, uncovering information that is at once universal and profoundly local.

The audio essay is developed under the KTH course on History of Science and Technology.

Registration is required for the radio walks: www.nortic.se/ticket/show/325826

Lost Ether is programmed during EQUINOX as part of our Student-led events initiative.

Speaker and raspberry pi on a stick

Contingent Flows (2026)

The installation presents an unfolding, contingent sonic layer generated by computational processes and situated environmental conditions. Visitors are invited to move through the space, immersing themselves in the iridescent soundscape.

After the experience, visitors, upon giving their consent, may engage in brief follow-up discussions with the researcher to share their impressions of the installation which will inform the research process.

Blue lit room with people on the floor lying

Somnosphere

Somnosphere is an immersive audiovisual installation transforming sleep into a shared space. Two distant sleepers form a closed loop by listening to each other’s sonified brain data, while visitors experience this exchange in real time through responsive sound and visuals.

Knitted fabric draped over stairs

Ada’s Sol (2020)

Ada’s Sol is a knitted software artwork that translates one of the earliest computer programs into a tactile-visual textile piece. Inspired by Ada Lovelace’s 1842 “Note G” for the Analytical Engine, the piece encodes the calculation of Bernoulli numbers as a pattern knit in yarn, where each column and row represents the changing variables of the algorithm. By translating mathematical operations into the textile structure, the work connects the histories of computing and textile craft—two practices historically linked through the punch-card logic of the Jacquard loom. Through the entanglement of code and yarn, Ada’s Sol blurs the boundary between what is considered “soft” craft and “hard” technology. The piece adopts a feminist approach to challenge the gendered divisions that have historically separated textile labour from computer science, highlighting shared logics of repetition, pattern, symmetry, and embodied manual work. By materializing software as fabric, the work demystifies computation and situates Lovelace within a broader lineage of textile and technological knowledge, inviting viewers to read fabric as information and to recognize programming as a human, accessible practice rather than an abstract machine process.

Woven fabric on a white background

Hello, World!

Hello, World! is a woven paper sculpture created from the Pascal User Manual and Report. The pages were cut into strips, and reassembled through weaving, causing the original text to be illegible. The sculpture explores the parallels between weaving and code, using grids as a structural framework that organises both thread and instruction into ordered, repeatable patterns. The work highlights how abstract instructions can be translated into both material or digital forms. Ultimately, Hello, World! reframes code not as a readable language but as a material pattern, signifying process, structure, and labour.

Hello, World! was developed as part of the KTH course DM260V Communicating Science Through Art and Art Through Science

Mana in with her installation made of hanging twigs and branches

Symbiotic Signals and Home

Symbiotic Signals is an interactive installation that explores subtle physiological and mechanical parallels between human breathing and forest ecosystems. The project consists of a kinetic mobile made of branches and natural fibers that responds to a viewer’s breath and movement creating an embodied experience of co-regulation between human and non-human systems. Drawing on research in tree sway dynamics, oscillation damping, and breath regulation connected to the autonomic nervous system, the installation invites participants to slow down, attend to their breathing, and notice how small actions can influence the surrounding environment.

Home is a painting, acrylic on canvas, that invites the viewer to be drawn into one of our ecosystems - the forest. Scientific evidence has shown a relaxing effect of forests on the human nervous system, illustrating how, spending time in nature can help relieve stress. Thus, this painting invites the viewer to reflect on their connection to nature and the exploration of nature's impact on their own lives. 

Symbiotic Signalswas developed as part of the KTH course DM260V Communicating Science Through Art and Art Through Science

Recorder and microphone with laboratory equipment in the background

Sonification of Quantum Randomness (2026)

The project explores quantum randomness as a source for generative art, highlighting how it differs from classical pseudorandomness. Drawing on single photons produced by Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC) in a quantum optics laboratory, the four-channel acousmatic installation translates photonic events into sonic events, unfolding against a background soundscape of electromagnetic recordings from the laboratory. The audience can hear the type of randomness detected by photon counters, with temporal intervals rescaled (mapping 1 picosecond in the original photon timestamp data to 0.1 second in SuperCollider, slowing down the events by 10¹¹× to make them audible).

Photonic pairs (signal and idler) emitted from SPDC are routed to separate speakers. These photons are entangled — detecting one photon provides information about the other. Entangled photon pairs are currently being studied for quantum communication, for example by sending one photon through an optical fiber while the other is stored in a quantum memory.

The work is developed under the KTH course on Communicating Science Through Art and Art Through Science, and made possible through collaboration with FITS Technische Universität Berlin.

Sonification by Edy Fung

Single photon source by Xavier Barcons Planas

Sonification of Quantum Randomness was developed as part of the KTH course DM260V Communicating Science Through Art and Art Through Science

Daylight Manifestations

Daylight Manifestations

The exhibition presents the culminating work of two group of students from the Master’s Programme in Architectural Lighting Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Developed as part of the academic exploration Daylight Manifestations, the project translates theoretical ideas about lighting design into spatial and experiential propositions.

Inspired by the ancient Nordic legend of the sun stone, on one hand, and by the site-specific conditions on the other, this mythical and speculative proposal explores a situational and seasonal encounter of human experience through daylight. Through conceptual design, experimental testing, and the construction of scale models studied under a daylight simulator, students investigate how natural light can shape atmosphere, emotion, and perception.

The result are two proposals that place daylight at the centre of architectural experience. Moving between science, myth, and design speculation, the Sun Stone and Trädljushus projects invites visitors to explore how daylight and the lack of it can transform the spaces we inhabit and the ways we encounter them.

Sun Stone project by: Tina Eklund, Bettymaya Foott, Paula Karcher

Trädljushus project by: Agate Hinca, James Wray McGowan and Zane Tropina

(Architectural Lighting Design Students at KTH)

Teacher: Rodrigo Muro

Black and white portrait of Ludvig

Ludvig Elblaus

Ludvig Elblaus is an artist and researcher working primarily with computational materials to create electroacoustic music, as well as audio-visual installations, museum exhibits, and contributions to larger collaborative works in several traditions, e.g. opera, theatre, and dance. His artistic practice explores chaos, dynamical systems, extended temporal structures and deep listening. At Equinox he will perform new work composed specifically for the particular acoustics of the R1 Reactor Hall.

ludvigelblaus.com/

Maurizio at a mixer

Maurizio Berta

Maurizio Berta is a composer, researcher, and software developer currently pursuing a PhD in Sound and Music Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. His work focuses on the design of new instruments and interfaces for musical expression, machine learning in music, interactive sonification, and computer-assisted composition. As a composer, he explores how meaning can emerge through the formal organization of sound. He holds a master’s degree in electroacoustic composition from SMET in Turin, where he studied under Andrea Agostini, Daniele Ghisi, and Stefano Bassanese. He currently teaches in sound-related courses at KTH MID.

In this performance for Equinox, Maurizio is exploring a formal organization of material inspired by Raymond Roussel's Imbrication Narration. A nested exploration of auditory trajectories, playing between consistency and blurring of auditory spaces.

mauriziobrt.github.io

www.instagram.com/maurizioberta/

Black and white portrait of Andrea

Andrea Strata (modulo21)

Andrea Strata (modulo21) is an italian multimedia artist, sound designer and creative coder based in Berlin. His artistic work is based on the development of interactive installations and audio devices that invite anyone to engage in creative exploration through the use of movement analysis, sensors and deep learning techniques. He is currently a PhD researcher at the Conservatory of Vicenza, Italy.

moduloventuno.xyz/

Siren disks and tubes in a yellow-lit room

Ensemble Sirenology

Helena Linder is an artist based in Stockholm who primarily focuses on instrument building and photography. Having a background in physics, she finds beauty in scientific explorations of sound and light—this ethos permeates her project Sirenology, where she is creating an acoustic synthesizer inspired by the mechanisms and historical context of sirens as tools in 19th–century acoustics labs. Helena’s affiliations in Stockholm include membership in Elektronmusikstudion, Konstmusiksystrar, and Fylkingen.

At Equinox, she performs on bespoke siren instruments designed and composed in partnership with Ryan Packard and Malte Dahlberg, who together are Ensemble Sirenology.

Ryan Packard is a percussionist, composer and sound artist currently based in Stockholm, SE. His compositional language is concerned with intimacy, interdependence and sympathetic relationships. 

Malte Dahlberg is a composer and sound artist with a background in architecture. He works with chimeric listening, machine hallucination and confused listening, abstruse interactive systems, inertia, as well as architectural scale and sections. Since 2024, he is the chair of the Fylkingen.

helenalinder.com/

ryanpackardsounds.org/

Black and white portrait of Adam and Giovanni

Diter

Diter is a project by Giovanni Onorato and Adam Fored. Their audiovisual work blends glitch aesthetics, microsounds, and unconventional rhythms, and it is influenced by electronic, electroacoustic, and noise music.

Giovanni’s knowledge in electroacoustic and acousmatic music combines with Adam’s background in visual arts and electronics. Together, they created a live-set interlacing sound and visuals in an idiosyncratic way, featuring self-written software and a combination of digital and analog gear that includes Adam's self-built video synthesizer.

Diter's live-set Adagio was premiered at Valkhof Festival in Nijmegen, and at Fylkingen's 90th year Festival in Stockholm. The piece has since been reworked for new performances during 2026.

diter.xyz/

www.instagram.com/diter.xyz/