The Machine Sleeps Tonight

Amos Peled received a grant to develop The Machine Sleeps Tonight, a project that repurposes an anesthetic machine as an instrument to explore its potential beyond clinical use. This interdisciplinary work, rooted in personal experience, reimagines medical technology as a medium for artistic expression. By facilitating collaboration between artists and medical professionals, the project challenges and expands both fields, inviting new perspectives on the intersections between technology, art, and health.

Amos is a multidisciplinary artist based in The Hague, working in audiovisual storytelling, experimental music, performance art, creative applications of medical technology, and theater. A 2022 graduate of the ArtsScience Interfaculty at KABK, Peled focuses on the creative use and repurposing of medical technology. His projects are deeply influenced by his early years spent in hospitals, connected to various medical devices and shaped by doctors’ opinions. This shift from patient to artist and designer is central to his work.