CAST Week 2026

CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies) is a platform for artists working at the intersection of sound, music, and visual media — dedicated to bold experimentation and boundary-pushing interdisciplinary work.

For the inaugural 2026 season, selected composers, visual artists, and multimedia creators have been paired into collaborative teams, spending months developing new work together. Their efforts culminate in a single performance on Saturday, March 28 at dadaLab.

Throughout CAST week, audiences will experience performances and presentations from artists across the experimental sound and visual media community — building toward that final night.

Presented in partnership with UT Austin's College of Fine Arts, the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, the Butler School of Music, SoundMap, Line Upon Line Percussion, dadageek, and dadaLab.

CAST: Premiere Night

CAST Creators in Performance

Me Mer Mo Monday CAST TAKEOVER!

Meet the Artists

The 2026 CAST cohort brings together composers, visual artists, and multimedia practitioners from across the globe.

Carolina Carrizo holds a Bachelor's degree and a Teaching degree in Music with a specialization in Composition from Facultad de Artes (UNLP, Argentina), graduating with distinction (2019). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts at the same institution. As a composer, she has received commissions and regularly participates in national and international festivals of contemporary and experimental music, including: Festival Atemporánea, ConDitLab, Generación TACEC (Argentina), Festival Plurisons (Brazil), Festival EXIT (Uruguay), PUJOA (Paraguay), UC Electroacoustic Music Festival (Chile), Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), Mixtur Festival (Spain), Frequenz Festival (Germany), Sonar Festival (Austria), Nordic Saxophone Festival (Finland, Sweden, Denmark), Tchaikovsky Academy (Russia), Contemporary Encounters (Israel), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (Iran), Synesthesia Lab (Russia), among others. She is Associate Professor of Composition III and of Analysis of Resources I & II, within the Bachelor's Degree in Music (Composition) and the University Technical Degree in Sound and Recording, respectively, at the Facultad de Artes (UNLP, Argentina). She also teaches at the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes (UNLP, Argentina). In addition, she has led transdisciplinary production workshops at Festival Plurisons UFMG (2025, Brazil), the Electronic Sound Factory at UNIRIO (2024 and 2025, Brazil), the National Composition Meeting at IUPA (2025, Argentina), MUSITEC2 (2020, Brazil), among others.

Jonathan Monaghan is an interdisciplinary artist whose prints, sculptures, and video installations weave together elements of ancient mythology, science fiction, and consumer culture. Past exhibitions include Sundance New Frontier, The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, NRW Forum in Düsseldorf, and The Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His work sits in numerous public and private collections including The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and the Microsoft Art Collection. He lives and works in Washington D.C.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1997, Haeun Park is a composer and pianist. She is currently pursuing a postgraduate specialization cycle in composition at the Conservatory of Strasbourg, France, in the class of Daniel D’Adamo. She completed her Master’s degree at National High Conservatory of Music of Lyon, France, where she studied with David Chappuis. During her Master’s studies, she composed and presented an original opera as her graduate project, and received highest honors unanimously from the jury for her final recital, along with an excellent grade for her research project. A recipient of several prizes and scholarships, Haeun Park earned her Bachelor’s degree in composition from Hanyang University in Seoul, graduating top of her class. She also studied musicology at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Passionate about instruments and the voice, she has composed numerous orchestral and vocal works, and her music reflects a constant search for innovation and musical expression.

Krista Faist is a VR/AI/moving image artist and creative technologist with an MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design. Her practice spans interactive installations, projection mapping, and real-time AI-driven generative systems that explore wonder, memory, and technological mediation. She serves as a 2024 Fuse Factory Artist-in-Residence and founding board member of Mural ReMix, a nonprofit projection mapping organization in Columbus, Ohio. Major works include Energy and Grace for BLINK Cincinnati 2024 and The Mirror's Echo, an AI installation transforming speech into visual landscapes. At CAST 2026, she presents NORI, audio-reactive visuals for a chamber performance composed by Haeun Park.

Dr. Stylianos Dimou, an internationally acclaimed composer, music technologist, improviser, and conductor, is renowned for his contributions to acoustic and electroacoustic music. His accolades include the Award for Artistic Excellence from the Ulysses Network/IRCAM (2018-2019), 1st Prize in the Luigi Nono International Composition Competition, and 2nd Prize in the Martirano Awards. He began his studies in Composition at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pursued his master’s at Eastman School of Music as a Fulbright Scholar, and earned his DMA from Columbia University as a Dean’s Fellow. An alumnus of IRCAM’s Cursus program, he has taught at prestigious institutions including Columbia, Eastman, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the University of the Peloponnese (GR). Since September 2024, he has been serving as a Tenured Associate Professor of Composition at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway.

Britt Moseley is an Austin-based artist working across sculpture, performance, and media systems. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and an MFA from University of Texas at Austin. His work has been presented at Hammer Museum (CA), St. Ann’s Warehouse (NY), Dixon Place (NY), Visual Arts Center (TX), and Ivester Contemporary (TX), among others. He has received support from City Artist Corps and Wave Farm’s MAAF Grant, and completed residencies at the Institute for Electronic Arts and St. Ann’s Puppet Lab. He teaches ceramics and new media at St. Edward’s University and UT San Antonio.

Shahrzad Talebi is a composer, sound artist, and educator from Tehran, Iran. Characterized by dense and complex textures, her music is focused on timbre as a means for exploring new soundscapes, color, time, space, and concepts. Her compositions have been recognized at the EMM Festival, Splice Festival, Taproot New Music Festival, PMF~, Penn State New Music Festival, Toledo Symphony Orchestra reading session; and has been performed by Unheard-of//Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, The Experiment, and Dal Niente ensemble. She holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from Tehran University of Art and a master of music from Bowling Green State University. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of North Texas as a teaching fellow while exploring her interests in audio-visual, and electronic music.

Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and software developer. Through performance, video, and works on paper he reinvigorates the inquiries of experimental filmmakers, the Light and Space movement, and visual poetry as fresh explorations of digital cartography. His concerns include perceptual pleasure and fatigue, geographies of the natural and built environment, and subverting the presumed objectivity and authority of maps. Since 2022 he's performed “A Synesthete's Atlas” across North America and in Europe. In 2024 he was commissioned to create the animated map that appeared atop San Francisco's Salesforce Tower, and in 2025 he received an OpenStreetMap Innovation Award.

Rafael Godoi has a MA degree in music composition at UFMG – Brasil. There, he studied composition with Rogério Vasconcelos, Oiliam Lanna and João Pedro Oliveira, who he also took classes of electronic music. At the end of 2019, he attended the CEME Festival with Meitar Ensemble, Philippe Leroux and Helmut Lachenmann. In 2022 he was an active participant at São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival and recently has participated as a fellow composer at the Vienna Summer Music Festival – Composers Forum having masterclasses with Irvine Arditti, Alexandra Karastoyanova and Tina Tallon. Also, Rafael had masterclasses with Mauro Lanza at the Divertimento Ensemble Academy in 2023, having his piece “ruína y leveza” premiered at the occasion. His music has been performed by Ana Claudia Assis, Nadav Lev, Paulo Rosa, Quarteto L’Arianna, PHACE Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, Orquestra SesiMinas and others.

David Sydiongco is a new media artist based in Austin, TX. Harnessing tools like TouchDesigner and Resolume, his work explores the emotional narrative of music and sound through real-time generative design. He draws inspiration from the surreal beauty found in both natural and synthetic spaces. He is also the co-founder of the live audiovisual act blend.mode and a regular performer and collaborator with dadageek.

Mathis Saunier is a French composer based in London, UK. His work blends electronic, acoustic, and visual elements, including lights and web-based soundscape apps, drawing on influences from techno, hyper-pop, noise, and industrial music. He graduated in composition from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2022 and is a Britten Pears Young Artist 2023/24. He collaborates with ensembles such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Collective, Ligeti Quartet, Exaudi, and the Nouvel Ensemble de Neuchâtel. His music has been performed across Europe and the US and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, France Inter, and RTS Radio.

A mixed-media artist, Shirley Steele works in the intersection of the humanist art tradition and new technology. She was a research scientist at Bell Labs when she met some of the pioneers of computer art and discovered the creative potential of the new tools. Later, Steele brought a scientific perspective to traditional arts training at the Art Students League in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Today, she shows regularly at Ceres Gallery in New York, and her work is included in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania (Mathematics and Psychology departments) in Philadelphia, the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Neurosurgery department) in Houston. Her most recent artwork is an exploration of the space between classical portraiture and creative computation.

Meet the CAST Committee Members

Aida Shirazi is an Iranian-American composer and electronic musician working across acoustic and electroacoustic forms. Shirazi’s music is described as ”unfolding with deliberation” by The New York Times, “well-made” and “affecting” by The New Yorker. In her works for various mediums, Shirazi foregrounds timbre as a primary structural element, with influences drawn from language, literature, and nature. Shirazi’s music has been featured at festivals Manifeste, Wien Modern, Berliner Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen, ECLAT, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Mostly Mozart, Ojai Music Festival, TIME:SPANS, Istanbul Music Festival, and Tehran Contemporary Music Festival. Shirazi is a co-founder and co-artistic director of the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA.)

Kyle Evans is a new media artist, sound designer, educator, and performer. He is the Managing Director of dadageek, co-founder of dadaLab, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at the UT Austin. He has produced and presented a wide range of performance and installation work at venues such as MUTEK San Francisco, Transmediale in Berlin, the International Computer Music Conference, and the Vancouver New Music Festival. His writings and artworks have been presented in several academic and popular publications, including the Leonardo Music Journal, Computer Music Magazine, Neural Magazine, and Popular Science Magazine.

Matthew Teodori founded line upon line percussion in 2009 and currently serves as its full-time Executive Director. He taught percussion at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX from 2014 - 2021. He has performed with the Austin Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Conspirare, ELISION, Inversion Ensemble, Mid-Texas Symphony, New Orchestra of Washington, Panoramic Voices, Roomful of Teeth, Southern Tier Symphony and the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra. Teodori received his Doctoral and Master's degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor's degree from Houghton College having studied with Dr. Thomas Burritt, Tony Edwards, Chip Ross and Jim Tiller. Matt loves endurance sports, baking bread and cooking dinner. He grew up in Richmond, VA, calls Austin home, but longs for mountains and cool weather. His favorite people on the planet are his wife, Natalie, and two kids, Zeke and Renata.

French-Brazilian artist Januibe Tejera has been named Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the UT Electronic Music Studio. His work connects contemporary music with oral music traditions, new technology, and theatrical elements, all with an eye toward music as a multi-sensory experience. Tejera has received commissions from Ensemble intercontemporain, the Siemens Foundation, IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), Ensemble PHACE, Ensemble TM+, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Additionally, his productions have appeared at major European festivals such as Musica Festival Strasbourg, Festival Présences, Festival ManiFeste, Festival Ensems, Darmstadt Festival, and Milano Musica. Tejera holds advanced degrees from the Conservatoire de Paris and from IRCAM. He has been an artist-fellow with Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), Fundación Ibermúsica, Fondation Salabert, and the Sacatar Foundation.