Bodegón contemporáneo alegórico, a la vanidad del individuo de la sociedad actual. Replantea, mediante la autoreflexión, las más privadas debilidades y autoconvicciones, las cuales son exalzadas por nuestra propia persona como virtudes cegadoras brindadoras de éxito.

Rastreando y reflejando la banalidad social, incitando la adopción de un sombrío y crudo punto de vista sobre el mundo, sumergiéndo al individuo en su fragilidad existencial. “La Vanidad es la ciega propensión a considerarse como individuo no siéndolo”. Friedrich Nietzsche

With this work I want to allow the observer to day dream a little. Allowing them to transform the life sized cast hands into a swarm that flocks together like birds in a choreographed dance. The installation itself is fashioned from 8 individual minimalistic robots a mp3 player and an industrial computer which is used to unite the hardware into a collective entity.
The combination of these elements becomes the medium that is in turn used to display the ephemeral content of the installation. The transient organized motion of the machines causes a blurring of boundaries. Sculpture and animation becomes united while the hands rise and fall to Prokofiev’s “Dance of the knights".

tag: robotic

I create a series of autonomous robots as new species having birth, life and death in the urban environment. My creatures are not composed of organic compounds but they have own characteristics and behaviors as organisms have in the biological world. I investigate how these artificial life forms reclaim the cities as their habitats, use urban facilities for their purposes, and develop survival strategies to live in the man-made surroundings.

Metaphorically concerned these artificial agents as life forms, biological and zoological concepts merge into robotics through the creation process. Behaviors determine the structure of robots and their electronic systems. Various materials are selected to make robots and those are suitable for each robot’s life.

Exploration proceeds with the creation of robotic species: tracing the robot’s everyday life in various territories and tracking the ‘social landscapes’ of interspecific activities. Documentations and collected data contain the robotic species’ histories of emergence, adaptation, and evolution.

A process based artwork based upon open source and crowdsourcing. An Internet based application allows gallery visitor to type in words that is being searched for in online open source film noir archive, a film dialog containing this word is played live, the dialog is what controls 3 web-cameras that are pointed at sculptural installation here in Sweden of 2 figures. The sculptures are made up of body castings of a multitude of people of different ages and backgrounds. A compelling cinematic interactive experience is created.

Today, as we're observing exponential growth in various technologies, we are at the same time experiencing the phenomenon described by numerous thinkers as singularity. The humans are becoming transitional creatures. They may in time become superintelligence or on the contrary, be destroyed by it. How is homo sapiens dealing with this situation? Are we able to adapt to this ever accelerating speed?

In the words of  William Gibson (1999), “the future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed.”

The aim of my performance is to show, that by easy access to open source software [which in this case will be PureData] we may evenly participate in the future that is happening now. Through this easily available technology humans may express themselves, formulate their doubts, anxiety, and confusion concerning this special moment in which they find ourselves now. On one hand, the quick and dynamic shifts in audio frequencies generated from an open source software during the artistic action are meant to correspond to the rapid changes of accelerating speed of reality. On the other, the performance will also turn towards repetitiveness and recurrence of sound and body movement in order to turn it into the ritual magickal event and thus underline, that facing the crash of violent transformations we all tend to turn to universal symbols and primitive behaviors.

tag: open source