Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Serena Stucke and Dan
Tesene. Their practice spans sound installation, video art, and live performance—building
immersive audiovisual environments through close observation of natural phenomena. Testu
combines synthetic and organic sounds through field recordings, modular synthesis, hand-made
instruments, sound objects, and spatial audio software—building tactile hyperreal soundworlds.
Stucke and Tesene explore sonic narratives through research and experiments with
psychoacoustics and physics. Their recent experiments sonify hidden wavelengths of the
electromagnetic spectrum by translating visible light or rotating magnets into audible sound.
Through recent studies in geological processes and spatial audio, they created a soundworld
with Wave Field Synthesis, which places virtual sound sources in real space
The collective has presented work at Gray Area (SF), 2220 Arts and Archives (LA), Artists
Space (NYC), Public Visuals (Tokyo), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica (NYC), Ace Hotel
(NYC), The Shed (NYC), Pleamar Festival (Buenos Aires). Most recently, Testu created a
multi-channel sound installation for Dan Flavin's light sculptures at Mana Contemporary. Testu
Collective was a 2025 NYSCA grantee.
Select Intermedia Performances
2026
Wave Field Synth spatial audio performance, Kaje Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Tea, sound performance, Prospect Park Boat House, Brooklyn, NY
2025
VantaLux, audiovisual performance, Zero Space, Brooklyn, NY
Trip Computer, audiovisual performance, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
Listening to the Ether, interactive sound installation and performance, TheaterLab, NY
Cinema for the Ear, audiovisual performance, Silence Please, NY
Rising Edge of a Pulse, sound performance, Light and Sound Design, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Tea, audio performance, Prospect Park Boat House, Brooklyn, NY
2024
Signal, audiovisual performance, 2220 Arts and Archives, Los Angeles, CA
Signal, audiovisual performance, Gray Area, San Francisco, CA
Signal, audiovisual performance, Little Field, Brooklyn, NY
Sublime Frequencies II, sound performance, Light and Sound Design, Brooklyn, NY
Sublime Frequencies I, audiovisual performance, Light and Sound Design, Brooklyn, NY
Haptic Drift III, sound installation and performance, Theater Lab, NY
Edge of the Infinite: Live audiovisual performance, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Public Visuals: Live audiovisual performance, The Tunnel, Tokyo, JP
Haptic Drift x Public Visuals: Live audiovisual performance & video exhibition, Theaterlab, NY
Public Visuals: Live audiovisual performance, Coaxial Gallery, Los Angeles, CAExistence in Time is Transitory: intermedia installation & performance, Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn,
NY Haptic Drift: sound performance with hand-built instruments, Theater Lab, NY
2022
Pleamar Festival: Live audiovisual performance & talk, Mar Museo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Radion II: Live Intermedia performance, Theater Lab, Manhattan, NY
2021
Artifact: audiovisual performance, Atta, Manhattan, NY
Illumination Festival: performance installation, Under the K Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
Ars Electronica: audiovisual performance, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
The Void: audiovisual & performance art installation, Triskelion, Brooklyn, NY
TRVLR: sculpture, performance art & sound performance, Mika, Brooklyn NY
2020
Edge of Light: Audiovisual Perfomance, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY
I N T E R V A L III: Intermedia Performance, CreateART & Ace Hotel, New York, NY
Installations and Exhibitions
2025
Listening to the Ether: Interactive sound installation, TheaterLab, NYC
2024
Listening to the Ether: A Sonic Intervention of Dan Flavin’s Cornered Light Sculptures, Mana
Contemporary, NJ
Nuevas Expresiones Rosario Digital Festival, Rosario Argentina
2023
Public Visuals: Multimedia Exhibition, Root K Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2022
Unfinished Conference: Video creation for musician Kaoru Watanabe, The Shed, Manhattan
The Sun is Not Silent: Sound & Sculpture Installation, Flux Factory, Governors Island, NY
Influence of the Electric Field: AV album release & gallery installation, Peninsula Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
2021
Public Visuals: group audiovisual exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Chashama storefront residency: Intermedia Performance, 146 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies
2025 NYSCA
2021 NYFA City Artist Corps Grant
Residencies
2024
- Arctic Hideaway, artist residency, Fleinvaer, Norway 2021 - Chashama Residency, artist
residency, Brooklyn, NY 2017 - Artscape Gibraltar Point, artist residency, Toronto, ON
Education
Bachelor of Fine arts, Sculpture, Minneapolis College of Art & Design (Dan Tesene)
Bachelor of Arts, Photography & Design, Columbia College Chicago(Serena Stucke)