FEEDback Series – Systems in Friction & Emergent Signals Co-curated by Eric Goldemberg and Annette Condello Group show at Curtin School of Design and the Built Environment | April 4–18
Monad Studio, an award-winning architecture firm co-founded by FIU CARTA’s very own Eric Goldemberg, continues to push the boundaries of interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation within creative spaces. Their acclaimed FEEDback Series – Systems in Friction & Emergent Signals, co-curated by Goldemberg and Annette Condello, is the latest iteration of a global project that explores creative intersections. This group exhibition, held at the Curtin School of Design and the Built Environment from April 4–18, exemplifies the studio’s commitment to cross-disciplinary exploration.
The FEEDback series has already made its mark in cities such as Perth, Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Venice—and many more are yet to come. At its core lies a radical fusion of architecture, music, art, and technology, expressed through the production and performance of 3D-printed instruments, created by MONAD Studio in collaboration with musician-luthier Scott F. Hall. These works generate immersive experiences that invite audiences, regardless of their familiarity with the arts, into a space of shared creativity and exploration.
The FEEDback series is a landmark group exhibition, merging over 50 voices from architecture, art, fashion, and music into a high-caliber, cross-disciplinary showcase. This edition brings together works from stellar architects like Zaha Hadid and Juergen H. Mayer, fashion designer Iris van Herpen and Anouk Wipprecht, artists Jon Tarry, Perry Hall and many more.
Reflecting on their recent stop in Perth, co-curators Eric Goldemberg and Annette Condello shared the following:
“We find ourselves in a critical moment in our shared history—a time of climate emergency, global instability, and profound inequity. It is precisely at such moments that interdisciplinary collaboration becomes not just valuable, but essential. The work you’ll experience in this exhibition demonstrates how the convergence of architecture, music, fashion, and art can generate new perspectives that might otherwise remain undiscovered.
What makes the FEEDback series particularly significant is its exploration of reciprocity—the way our actions create responses that in turn reshape our understanding. Just as a guitarist creates a sound that reverberates through an amplifier and back into the instrument, creating unexpected harmonics, these creators have established feedback loops between different disciplines, between the human body and its environment, and between natural systems and technological innovation.
The projects presented at Perth’s Curtin School of Design and the Built Environment—gathered from prestigious events including the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and UIC-Barcelona—invite us to reconsider our relationship with the built environment, with nature, with our own bodies, and with time itself. They challenge us to recognize that the boundaries we’ve constructed between disciplines may be precisely what limits our capacity to address our most pressing challenges.
In a world where specialized knowledge has become increasingly siloed, this exhibition reminds us that the most generative ideas often emerge at the intersections. When systems come into friction—when architecture meets music, when digital fabrication meets biological inspiration, when the human body encounters new technological extensions—unexpected signals emerge.”
As the FEEDback Series continues its international journey, Monad Studio’s Eric Goldemberg affirms its role not only as an innovator in design but as a catalyst for meaningful cultural dialogue—where sound, structure, and society reverberate through systems in friction and the signals that emerge.
