About

Kyle Sattler is a Tauranga-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and recording artist whose practice spans a broad spectrum of experimental methodologies. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Visual Arts (with Distinction).

Sattler’s visual art practice is rooted in an ongoing investigation into ontological themes and the metaphysical realm. His video and sound-based installations explore how rhythm, flow, and immediacy shape human perception and experience. Recent works incorporate semi-autonomous audiovisual systems that operate asynchronously and incommensurably, mirroring the aleatoric and unpredictable nature of real-time experience.

Drawing on the theories of film scholar Michel Chion and the philosophical concepts of Henri Bergson, Sattler’s work engages with the notion of synchresis, the perceptual fusion of concurrent auditory and visual events in film. His asynchronous audiovisual installations propose that occurrence precedes meaning: experience happens first, before any interpretation is imposed. This position suggests that our immediate engagement with the world and the universe unfolds not according to any preordained order, but as a continuous, evolving cacophony of real-time phenomena and responses.

In addition to his visual arts practice, Sattler performs as the synth-punk solo project WE WILL RIDE FAST, a multimedia endeavour once described as “what Robocop’s band would be if he were allowed to express feelings.” The project features a genre-blending sonic palette of fuzzy synths, pulsing new-wave electronics, and goth-inflected rhythms, serving as an aural extension of Sattler’s post-punk ontological investigations.

Sattler is currently a member of the academic staff at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in Tauranga, where he teaches across various disciplines within the Bachelor of Creative Industries programme.