Adam Ben-Dror
Capacitive Touch
Adam Ben-Dror and Uncredited Performer have had an ongoing artistic conversation for a number of years now in which collaboration, experimentation, and improvisation have been pulled open to reveal parts neglected in sound, movement, and physical materials.
Performing experiments from their most recent collaboration they play with obsolete smartphones, iPads, and Bluetooth speakers, treating them less like dead tech and more like stubborn, misbehaving instruments.Once abandoned, these devices are coaxed back into life through interference and touch, creatively misused until sound leaks out.
Photography: Jaehwan Lee
About
Adam Ben-Dror is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and inventor based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. His practice sits at the intersection of art, design, ecology, and informal engineering, with a focus on working resourcefully with overlooked, discarded, and everyday materials. Together with Xin Cheng, he co-runs Local Making (www.localmaking.org), a design studio and neighbourhood-scaled laboratory for resourceful living and making, which supports hands-on experimentation, skill-sharing, and community-based approaches to material reuse.