Artist and composer, Robin Meier Wiratunga strives to understand how humans, insects, swarms and objects think. Using techniques from sound and science he composes thinking tools made with singing mosquitoes, synchronised fireflies, neural networks, and flute-carrying pigeons. Conducted in close collaboration with specialists and scientific labs, his work blends machine learning with animal intelligence. Arranging human, animal and nonbiological actors into constellation-like scores, he creates environments for musical patterns to spontaneously emerge.
Referred to as “Artist of the future” (Le Monde), “Maestro of the swarm” (Nature) or simply “pathetic” (Vimeo) his projects have been shown at Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou, Paris; MIT Museum, Boston; Shanghai Biennale and Colomboscope, Sri Lanka.
As a composer and sound designer, Meier Wiratunga has collaborated with artists including Björk, Holly Herndon and Pierre Huyghe. He is a collaborator at IRCAM Centre Pompidou and teaches Sound Arts at the HKB Academy of the Arts, Bern. He holds fellowships at the Istituto Svizzero, Rome, and Arts at CERN, Geneva.