Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler have been collaborating since 2017, creating audiovisual performances that investigate everyday objects, concepts of agency and queer potentiality. Their collaborative work has been shown at numerous festivals such as Revolutions Per Minute; Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music; Transient Visions; Light Matter; Athens International Film + Video; Intermediale Festival of Audiovisual Forms and forthcoming Fisura:International Festival of Experimental Film & Video. Most recently, Duncan and Pirler performed their audiovisual performance, “Surface Connection” at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival's Expanded Cinema program and exhibited their work in the LEAF2023: Sync Exhibition. They have been artists-in-residence at Signal Culture (Owego, NY), PACT Zollverein (Essen, Germany), and Institute for Electronic Arts (Alfred, NY). Pirler earned her M.M. in Music Technology from NYU Steinhardt, and her Ph.D. in Electronic Arts from RPI. Pirler has been awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Music/Sound in 2022. Dr. Pirler joined the Bennington College faculty in the Fall of 2018. Duncan earned her BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, MFA from the University of California, San Diego and an MA in Choreography and Performance from JLU Gießen, Germany. Duncan joined the faculty of the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theater & Dance at Lehman College-CUNY in Fall 2019.