art + tech + sci
dadaLab is an immersive art studio based in Austin, TX. We are a connected team of artists, musicians, technologists, and performers. We work with a range of media including light, projection, sculpture, spatial sound, and performance. dadaLab’s core directors Barna Kantor and Kyle Evans developed the organization as an evolution of their ongoing projects dadageek and Rolling Ryot.
Barna Kantor was born in Hungary, received a sociology degree in Budapest, and worked in England and France. He is a graduate of Studio Art, Transmedia at UT Austin, the city where he lived for over 25 years. He was artistic director in media education organizations, programmed a micro-cinema, taught at several Universities and worked on a number of public art projects. He is mainly interested in temporary and permanent place-making – defined as “lending meaning to combined physical and virtual spaces”. In 2016 he co-founded dadageek, Austin’s School for Expressive Technology with Lisa Woods. In 2018 he co-founded Rolling Ryot to produce and showcase spatial sound works.
Kyle Evans (MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) is a new media artist, sound designer, educator, and performer. Focusing on the intersection of art and technology, his work commonly explores concepts of hacking, technological failure, and media artifacts. He has produced and presented a wide range of tech-art performance and new media installation work throughout North America and Europe at venues such as MUTEK San Francisco and Transmediale in Berlin. He is the managing director and instructor at the non-profit institution dadageek and board member and composer of the art collective Rolling Ryot. He is currently an active artist and instructor in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX.