Biography

Laura Maes (born 1978) is a Belgian sound artist, composer, and musician. She received an MA in music in 2001 from the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and an MA in marketing management in 2002 from the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School. In 2013, at Ghent University, Belgium, she defended her PhD dissertation, “Sounding Sound Art: A Study of the Definition, Origin, Context, and Techniques of Sound Art.” Maes has worked as a curator for the arts center Vooruit, Gent, and for Happy New Ears, a festival for new music. She currently works at the Logos Foundation, a center for experimental music and sound art, and teaches classical guitar and ensemble at the Conservatory in Ostend. She is a member of the management boards of music education organizations vzw Kong (since 2004) and Musica (since 2013), and chairman of the public art festival the Crystal Ship (since 2016). Maes’s work has been exhibited across Europe, including at the arts center Vooruit in Gent; the Re:new festival, Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Usurp Gallery, London.

Spikes is a production of the Logos Foundation.