Rolling Ryot is:
KYLE EVANS
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, Transmediale in Berlin, the International Computer Music Conference at Columbia University, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, the Vancouver New Music Festival, and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe. He is a founding board member and instructor at the non-profit institution dadageek, board member and composer of the art collective Rolling Ryot, and creator of the tech-art event curation organization CounterVolt. in 2019 he co-founded dadaLab with Barna Kantor to produce immersive, experiential art environments. He is currently an active artist and instructor in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX.
LYMAN HARDY III
is an Emmy nominated sound designer and musician living in Austin, TX. His work ranges from spatial sound installations, feature films and documentaries to modular synth compositions, drums and percussion. He is a founding member of Rolling Ryot sound collective, as well as Austin based post house Stuck On On, and has played with numerous Austin bands including Hardy Harris Henley, Thor and Friends, Ed Hall, Pong, and Total Unicorn.
THOR HARRIS
Is a classically trained percussionist and in-demand Austin mainstay. Thor Harris has toured the world with artists as varied and accomplished as Shearwater, Swans, Bill Callahan, Amanda Palmer and many others. He has lived in Austin since 1985. He now has a collective called Thor & Friends that does modern classical minimalism.
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 and in 2019 he co-founded dadaLab with Kyle Evans to create and promote large-scale experiential art environments.
JOSEF KRISTOFOLETTI
was educated as an academic painter at SAIC and Boston University K started using walls early in his career. His goal is to diminish paintings perceived status as objects. Art painted on a wall becomes immaterial, it is no longer about the object at the same time the painting takes on the weight of the whole building, the observer can literally be in the building
diverse influences, including prehistoric caves, renaissance paintings, traditional Italian frescos and emerging trends in urban street art.
Iconoclastic works of architecture such as Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum as not only sources of personal inspiration but examples of rich traditions that continue to inform contemporary art and design practice.
his artistic approach treats painting as a spatial practice at the scale of architecture. Over the past decade he has developed a protfolio that reflects his view of he role of art in the built environment with murals painted both on and inside buildings