It was a great honour to be asked to provide an insightful and inspiring translation of the sublime exhibition text, created and presented by the Museum am Dom, St. Pölten, Austria. With many thanks to MMag. Manuela Rechberger, who entrusted me with this meaningful and inspiring project. Sound by GPA Worship & Ali McFarlane “Healing in His Wounds” (feat. Carys Rimmer) Booklet „PERMANENT EXHIBITION“ Museum am Dom St. Pölten Text translated by Évelin Maier EDITOR Museum am Dom St. Pölten A-3100 St. Pölten, Domplatz 1 www.museumamdom.at © 2024 GRAPHIC DESIGN no-mad-designers PRINT Eigner Druck GmbH, Neulengbach

Editorial Feature Viewpoint Colour Magazine, Issue 16 – “Brain Power, Out of Mind.” December 2024, pp. 91, 95 Written by Irene van Doesburg Featuring: Évelin Maier Compiled and edited by the Viewpoint Colour team at OnDesign Studio Director: Livia Shah-Cruger Researchers: Irene van Doesburg, David Shah, Giulia Shah, Gloria Jover, Elisabeth Muñoz Lopez www.viewpointcolormagazine.com Project Feature — Évelin Maier The Forensic Research: Cognitive Neuroscience & Social Psychology explores the human brain as a predictive device. London-based multidisciplinary artist Évelin Maier investigates cognitive neuroscience to expose the unseen dimensions of perception, thought, and action. Merging MRI film imagery with abstract sound, her work examines boundary issues and the complex interplay between individuals and society. Through electronic composition and luminous neon tones, the heart becomes a metaphor for the brain — a forest of Neurons entwined with emotion, perception, and social psychology.

ABSTRACT The human brain functions, in essence, as a prediction machine. I am a London-based transdisciplinary artist, sound artist, and filmmaker whose research engages with the cognitive neuroscience of perception, thought, reason, will, and action — in pursuit of visualising the unseen mechanisms of the mind. Following an eight-hour awake neurosurgery for an astrocytoma near the brain’s speech centre, my practice developed a sustained focus on the neurocognitive processes underlying recovery and language perception. This experience prompted a deeper examination of how neurons operate, communicate, and form the complex architectures that constitute cognition. Cognitive science — bridging the fields of thought and language — became a central framework through which artistic research and philosophical inquiry converge. The work investigates the intersection of cognitive and social domains, particularly the relational effects of boundaries and interaction. Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging enhanced with contrast fluids, emotional responses are metaphorically visualised as chromatic strata — a layered representation of inner affective states. The collaboration between MRI film and abstract sound composition explores the dynamic interplay between individual cognition and collective experience. Sound, noise, and electronic structures operate as both metaphor and material, articulating the socio-emotional dimensions of human existence that remain otherwise imperceptible. Within this context, the human heart functions as an emotional mirror of neuroscientific projection — a metaphorical forest of neurons rendered in high-contrast neon hues, embodying the fusion of cognitive science and social psychology within contemporary art practice. Steel sculpture by Makiko Harris, MFA (San Francisco) Experimental electronic soundscape “Yearning” by Crosswhen (London)

Beyond Surface Radio 03/28/23 Penarth Centre London Only available in collaboration with Évelin Maier. The aural branch of Beyond Surface: the RCA CAP Festival of 2023, where contemporary artists from around the globe share their stories through recent works. Beyond Surface Radio is a sonic assemblage blending spoken word and poetic interludes exploring the surreal, political, radical and tender. Short stories, soundscapes and conversations are interwoven in this two hour-long broadcast. Beyond Surface Radio features artists who studied on at the Royal College of Art. Running Order: 1. JohnZ GenerativeNoise 2. BlakeHart-Wilson_CitizenKane 3. WenLu_NothingBut 4. Theo Dunne Putrid gristle as a car dredged up from a lake 5. Ava Grauls Overload 6. Vivian LY_59.5594_N_150.8128_E 7. Kiera Burton_Seeking Truth 8. Myungmin_CISD 9. Nelson Free Flow 10. Yasmeen Fathima Thantrey Ammi - 11. Junshu Gu Sappho talks Cat walks 12. Sarah Coen Breath Mix 13. Anais Serres Vampyroteu this Chant 14. Alice Harry AphrodiTv 15. Lucinda May _Island Song 16. Layan Harman_ 17. Jiayi Yu- touch me 18. Zhaoqi Jiang Monologue 19. Meng Qing_ 启程 20. Yijia Wu Radio_ 21. Hannah Mason No Halo 22. Poppy Litchfield Let Down 23. Skye Turner_Vibrating Surface In The Shape of a Child 24. Lauric Mahe-Stephenson - Pearls Before Swine 25. Teän Roberts_Prayer of the Eel-Cult 26. Ruoheng Li 27. Shiyang Liu_Torrents 28. Ben Sargent Finish 29. Daisy Jones Enter Paradise 30. Jonathan Wejnold 31. Ramzia Jawara _Pleasure Revolution 32. Ulkü Caglayan_ 33. Yiping Xia_ 34. Finn Duffy- Orphan Source 35. Arjuna Keshvani I cannot wash away the blue 36. Evelin Maier Eternal Echo 37. Dann Xia_Raw 38. Joa Blumenkranz Siren Song (excerpt) 39. Alyse stone Monte33 40. Hazel Yizhuo Jiao_ 41. Makiko Harris 42. Hongrui Liu_ BB6

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SCIENCE CITY 1550–1800 The Linbury Gallery Science has always been — and remains — at the beating heart of London. Wandering through this wealth of knowledge, I sought to invite visitors not only to see science but to touch it — to engage directly with its methods and material traces. The installation proposes an encounter through doing: by testing, connecting, and sparking intrigue. THE LISTENING TELESCOPE — Artistic Reflection My work draws upon these intertwined histories of light, material and sound. During the First World War, concave mirrors were used not to gaze at stars but to listen for approaching aircraft — a haunting inversion of the telescope’s purpose. The scientific principle that both light and sound waves reflect from concave and convex surfaces alike underpins my piece. The Listening Telescope transforms observation into resonance, extending the scientific act of seeing into one of hearing — a poetic re-encounter with how we perceive, measure, and connect to the world. Refracting Telescope — Galileo & Kepler The earliest refracting telescopes combined a convex objective lens with a concave eyepiece. Galileo’s refinement of this design opened the heavens to direct observation — a radical act of looking. By 1611, Johannes Kepler further advanced the instrument with two convex lenses, producing a sharper image and an upright view of the cosmos. Yet, the new clarity came at a cost: chromatic aberration — the rainbow distortion caused by the lens’s imperfect refraction of light. To minimise this, early astronomers resorted to ever longer focal lengths, their telescopes stretching towards the absurdly elegant. ⸻ Reflecting Telescope — Newton & Hadley In 1668, Isaac Newton reversed the paradigm, turning from glass to metal. His first reflecting telescope used a polished alloy of tin and copper — speculum metal — to gather and reflect light. Half a century later, John Hadley improved Newton’s design, perfecting the parabolic mirror and solving many of its optical flaws. The race for scale was on: mirrors grew, doubled, and redefined what it meant to “see” the universe. In 1857, Léon Foucault introduced the silvering of glass mirrors — a process that not only sharpened vision but also inspired a new kind of reflective imagination. ⸻

ABSTRACT 10,000-word dissertation This dissertation expands the critical discourse surrounding three pioneering women in electronic sound art — Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, and Björk Guðmundsdóttir — through a multifaceted lens of inequality. It engages philosophical, social, cultural, technological, and gender perspectives to examine how women navigate subjectivity within socially constructed environments, and what new potentialities might emerge to promote equality. At its core, the argument suggests that social relations of all kinds are inevitably shaped by structures of inequality. The philosophical framework draws on Judith Butler’s theories of performativity to contextualise Oram’s and Derbyshire’s positions, while Mary Evans introduces a sociological and gendered dimension that deepens the discussion. In contrast, Björk embodies a counter-narrative — an artist whose experimental autonomy challenges the very constructs that historically constrained women in sound-based practice. A secondary discourse traces the evolution of feminist thought — from first through third waves — guided by the foundational contributions of John Stuart Mill and Simone de Beauvoir. These intellectual trajectories support a call for renewed, outward-looking approaches to social diversity: innovative modes of thought aimed at expanding human understanding and achieving equitable frameworks for creative and intellectual life. Echoing Amartya Sen’s assertion that “being as capable as one can, to achieve as much as we can, is the framework of capability and freedom,” the study recognises the Equality Act (2010) as both a legislative milestone and an ongoing invitation to reimagine justice and fairness across all genders. Methodologically, the research combines extensive textual analysis, archival study, and audio documentation. It positions itself as a reflective synthesis of philosophical and feminist thought, encouraging the development of informed, critically attuned perspectives on gender, creativity, and the politics of sound.

ABSTRACT The Fabric of Humanity is a interdisciplinary research project — an odyssey across three human-centred subjects, each rooted in history, social psychology, and the lineage of Abstract Art. Beginning with the still–moving visual language of Chris Marker, the project weaves analogue sensibilities with an avant-garde critique that threads through all three films. Together, these works form a reflective constellation: an invitation to encounter the poetic, the political, and the personal as interdependent forces shaping the human condition. Conceived for large-scale projection, the works find their natural setting within public and cultural spaces — envisioned for events such as the Royal Academy Festival of Ideas, where they might animate the courtyard with abstract narratives, or LUMIERE London, transforming Regent Street into a luminous cinematic dialogue within the city itself. Project Sequence 1. Humanity & In-Equality — Abstract Film An inquiry into the evolving history of humankind, exploring the fragile equilibrium between coexistence and division. 2. Enmity : Naivety — Abstract Avant-Garde Film A visual meditation on conflict, innocence, and the mechanisms of manipulation within social behaviour. 3. A Geometric Experiment — Artistic 1-Minute Film Inspired by Bauhaus philosophies and the overlooked contributions of women within its movement — a rhythmic study of form, motion, and equality. 4. Website for a Medical Client A digital extension of practice: design as an act of empathy, clarity, and communication. 5. Recherche Esthétique Pendant la Quarantaine A booklet of aesthetic research undertaken during quarantine — isolation reimagined as a creative laboratory.