Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Skander Jaïbi
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On Friday 23 October 2026 the Van Gogh Museum and Uncloud join forces for the special Amsterdam Dance Event edition of Vincent op Vrijdag: experimental music by Coby Sey and Devon Rexi, with visuals by Uncloud inspired by the art of James McNeill Whistler.
2026
Audiovisual performance by Syrian oud player and composer Talal Fayad with filmmaker and music producer Anas Qadamani and Skander Jaïbi, inspired by the multidisciplinary legacy of the poet, writer and painter Etel Adnan.
The track “II” from Who has the right to closure? was used in the showfilm for Iris van Herpen’s Sonic Starquakes collection (Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026/27, Paris).
Experimental short film (19 min, France/Tunisia) by Khalil Karaouli and Théophile Séjeau, in which a man wanders through Marseille, caught between memory and exile. Sound mixing by Skander Jaïbi.
Premiere of the second live set.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
2025
Album premiere.
A studio iteration on music originally composed for CLAUSURA, a dance choreography by Alicia Verdú Macián.
The album moves through loss, grief and closure across eight chapters, balancing habitual composition with more elusive and intangible materials.
Live show of the debut album with Alicia Verdú Macián (dance), Flare Quartet and Choir Lex et Gaudium. The music started as the score for Alicia’s dance piece CLAUSURA.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
One-day festival at De Nijverheid with interdisciplinary performances, live sets and DJs, from the afternoon into the early morning. Organised by Zenith together with Uncloud, 030.radio, Culture Shock, De Nijverheid and Stranded FM.
A studio iteration on music originally composed for CLAUSURA, a dance choreography by Alicia Verdú Macián.
The album moves through loss, grief and closure across eight chapters, balancing habitual composition with more elusive and intangible materials.
Audiovisual installation: an observation station that turns rain, wind, electromagnetic waves and passers-by into an ever-changing composition.
Unfortunately the installation was fully vandalised after a few weeks of display.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Interactive installation by Cris Mollee on how generative AI reads and reconstructs the human body, told in four chapters. Sound by Skander Jaïbi. Supported by Creative Coding Utrecht.
2024
Audiovisual installation with painter Laurie Drew and filmmaker Guillaume Versteeg. MacroCosmos II was developed during residencies on Vlieland.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Audiovisual installation with painter Laurie Drew and filmmaker Guillaume Versteeg. MacroCosmos II was developed during residencies on Vlieland, where it was first shown.
Into The Great Wide OpenKunstklanken podcast: Guillaume Versteeg on MacroCosmos II
Audiovisual installation with painter Laurie Drew and filmmaker Guillaume Versteeg.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Live audiovisual trio with Skander Ben Yahia and Zohra Mrad.
Audiovisual installation shaped as a night shop on a cargo bike: up to five visitors look through peepholes at miniature nocturnal worlds while listening to audio scenes through headphones. Sound by Skander Jaïbi together with Eveline Ypma.
[dj set]
OPIA Festival
DJ set with Skander Ben Yahia
DJ sets as skanderskander.
2023
Original music composed for Alicia Verdú Macián’s choreography CLAUSURA.
This piece became the origin point for the album Who has the right to closure?
Audiovisual installation with painter Laurie Drew and filmmaker Guillaume Versteeg.
Audiovisual live performance with Zohra Mrad, with synthesizers, voice, field recordings, audiovisual integration and visual expression.
Audiovisual installation with painter Laurie Drew and filmmaker Guillaume Versteeg.
Uncloud 2023 included the exhibition at the former Pieter Baan Centrum, a festival weekend (06 to 08 - 10) at De Helling, WAS. and the Pieter Baan Centrum, and the Performative Installations Night (14 - 10).
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
For the 50th anniversary of the Van Gogh Museum, a series of video-art pieces based on Van Gogh’s work was composed and shown on a gigantic LED screen in the main hall of the museum.
Premiere, for Modulation.
An immersive A/V live experience blending experimental and beat-driven music, with 3D visuals and daring soundscapes. Made with Skander Ben Yahia and Jaco Schilp. Skander Jaïbi was in charge of the concept, the audiovisual system and integration, and the live sound performance.
DJ set as The Secret Acid Society, at a night by Are You Alien Records with Briki and HearThuG, and a live set by Panj. Artwork by YFGD.
DJ sets as skanderskander.
2022
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
360° light sculpture of Utrecht built from LiDAR data. Concept with Jaco Schilp; sound composed with Allert Aalders from recordings around the city.
A modular and site-specific visual installation by Skander Jaïbi and Cris Mollee, interactively reinvented based on set spatiotemporal compositional principles.
For Orbit Festival, re:gen is embedded in the environment of Fort Vechten and incorporates abstract narratives relating to the monument’s history. Placed in juxtaposition with the magnificent tree at the center of the festival, re:gen invites the visitor to experience a duet between nature and technology, exploring their relation and intertwinement anew.
This iteration of re:gen was realised with the great support and technology of Lumus Instruments. Selected by Uncloud.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
2021
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
2020
Co-founder and artistic director of Uncloud festival, a platform for experimental sound, art and technology.
A long-running context for building programs, collaborations and public encounters around contemporary audiovisual practice.
2019
Composition, sound design and foley for films by Guillaume Versteeg.
2018
Installation with Jaco Schilp and René ’t Hart, shown in the pop-up exhibition Museum van Geluid, curated by Colin Benders.
Composition, sound design and foley for films by Guillaume Versteeg.
Who has the right to closure?
Who has the right to closure? is a studio iteration on music originally composed for CLAUSURA, a dance choreography by Alicia Verdú Macián. It was released on 04 July 2025 by Uncloud Editions.
The album moves through loss, grief and closure across eight chapters. Artwork and paintings are by Hans Schuttenbeld, with typographic design by Ines Kooli.
Open on BandcampAbout
I am a Tunisian and Dutch composer, audiovisual artist, curator and science educator, currently based between Tromsø, Tunis and Amsterdam. I obtained my MSc degree from the University of Utrecht in the philosophy of (quantum) physics in 2020 and am one of the founders and artistic directors of Uncloud festival since 2016.
As an artist, my medium of choice is often sound. My works range from a strong focus on the use of field recordings and archival material to creating compositions that may or may not integrate such recordings. Alongside my autonomous practice, I have co-created on various occasions and have collaborated on, among others, dance pieces, films and art installations.