Steven McInerney (b. Melbourne, 1983) is an artist living in London, combining analogue film, computational processes, and immersive sound to create expanded forms of cinema, live performances, and installations. McInerney’s work investigates emergent phenomena, using socio-technical assemblages of media for exploration. These time-variant works draw upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise multi-channel dispersion and real-time feedback systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. In 2014 they established Psyché Tropes, an interdisciplinary platform for media archaeological research, releases, and events, while hosting a monthly radio programme on Resonance 104.4 FM. As a specialist gong practitioner, McInerney guides sonic meditations for individuals and groups working intuitively with psychoacoustics for healing, transformation, and altered perception.
McInerney’s film projects have received international recognition with awards, funding and support from Arts Council England, Lux Moving Image, Film London, and British Film Council. They co-founded and directed the Hackney Film Festival from 2010–2012, and have been featured on BBC Radio and Ina GRM’s L'Expérimentale on France Musique. Reviews in print and online include The Wire Magazine, Wallpaper, Elephant, Ableton, and Electronic Sound among others. McInerney performs and releases as Merkaba Macabre, plus collaborative projects: IOME, and Post Coma.