The Berlin-based, Finnish-born duo are a production house as well as part-performing arts group, part-experience design studio informed by a unique perspective on technology and the way it mediates contemporary experience.

Photo: Ville Kallio

Founded in 2014 by Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala, they focus on system vulnerabilities, information overload, and sensory excess, which has found them homes in both clubs and galleries.

Building on their mixtape AS Live [​]​[​]​[​]​[​]​[​] (2014), Amnesia Scanner’s critically acclaimed audio play Angels Rig Hook (2015) laced a potpourri of dancefloor tactics with a machinic narrator. Their dual EPs for Young Turks, AS and AS Truth (2016), distilled this immersive environment into an abrasive collection of cryptorave tools. Their 2018 album Another Life was notable for its use of both human and inhuman voices, and their upcoming release Strobe.rip promises to further this uncanny journey.

Amnesia Scanner has presented work at art institutions such as ICA London, HKW Berlin, and the Serpentine Gallery Marathon in London. When unplugged from the Amnesia Scanner stream, Haimala works as a composer and producer with a wide range of musical and visual artists, and Kalliala co-directs the thinktank Nemesis.

  • Amnesia Scanner - AS Tearless (feat. Lalita) (PAN 108) by PAN

  • Amnesia Scanner - AS Tearless (feat. Lalita) (PAN 108) by PAN