Francesca Fini
Italia
www.francescafini.com
https://tonidipelle.tumblr.com/

Proyecto: SKIN / TONES

/// The living installation

A landscape that always tells a different story, our skin, is scanned with a digital microscope showing details that look like maps of unknown planets. An infinite variety of colors, textures and shapes, patterns and imperfections - sometimes beautifully frightening - are transformed into digital information producing live generative sounds and visuals, in the synergy of the random movement of my hand.

I’m naked in front of two neon lights, backing the audience so that only the outline of my body is visible. I pass a digital microscope all over my body, scanning the different textures of my skin (hair, lips, tongue and so forth).

The custom software created with Isadora, then calculates the average color of each segment of my skin, transforming the data flow into generative live sound and video (the different sounds and samplings blend and mix exactly according to the mix of red, green and blue, that is, the RGB code that is recorded in real-time by the microscope). The visuals projected in front of me are the result of the image coming from the microscope, processed into mesmerizing kaleidoscopic renderings, turning even the smallest imperfection into live art. Scars, wounds, benign melanomas, wrinkles and stretch marks become mandala, crystals, jewels.

/// The audience experience

I offer my back to the audience, absorbed as I am in observing and getting lost in the kaleidoscopic and hypnotic digital processing of my own skin. The audience has a voyeuristic role here; watching not my body, but the macroscopic and deformed processing of it, as in a sort of super-selfie transmitted through a filter (in this case not the filter of the Net, but that of the fourth wall produced by the accurate theatrical staging).

/// Skin color and gender are just an illusion, in macroscopic view

SKIN / TONES exhibits the skin, processed by the digital microscope and the kaleidoscopic filter, becoming a mesmerizing work of art.

The performance plays ironically on the concept of biometrics, as the study of that system of variables that could allow reliable identification of individuals, through fingerprint, retina or iris recognition devices, conversely celebrating the chaos, the mistake, the unpredictability of individual identity.
The color of the skin, analyzed by the microscope lens and processed by the digital flow, becomes an endless and unpredictable variety of green, red and blue combinations, loosing any possible connection to the Cartesian, narrow and separative reality visible to the naked eye. As well, under the digital microscope, the female and the male bodies lose their sexual identity (and the vagina becomes just the “pinkest” tissue of all).

SKIN / TONES is a visual and sound celebration of cellular life itself.

tag: generativearts

Eugenia Fratzeskou
Londres. UK

Proyecto: Inter-Surfaces

Inter-Surfaces reveal unexpected shifts between different kinds of geometry through challenging the limits of volume-based digital modelling. The presence of unexpected complex dynamics and other behaviours can be registered through applying simple geometrical transformations of extreme values to digital 'solids'. Dystopian architectonics are generated through the shifting multi-dimensional surfaces, inspiring new insights and innovation in art and design.

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Edouard Beau
Paris. Francia
http://www.edouardbeau.com

Proyecto: La Barricadas Misteriosas

Las Barricadas Misteriosas is an immersive audiovisual installation project concerning the memory of the Spanish civil war. Starting from the impossibility of writing an objective history, this installation proposes to carry a particular view of the Spanish civil conflict through a notion that lies at the crossroads of cognitive sciences; of the study of dreams, of the unconscious and of the trauma (traum): the experience of recall, the flashback. An immersive environment is created that treats the memory of a conflict by constructing an atmosphere, using sound and photographs. The atmosphere generates an integration of related sound information from archives of the conflict. The gaze of the participant rests on the photographs, thus provoking a sensory experience: a resurgence of the memory beyond the visible wounds and closer to the psychic pains and amnesia engendered by this conflict. It is a question here of treating memory by proposing, without moving, to perform four displacements of different forms and different aspects: an historical displacement by a temporal compression between the past and the actual time; a Spanish journey through the photographs, and its poetics; a comparison of the contemporary Spanish world to historical events and finally a paradigm shift in the perceptions of a given event. I have tried to create an autonomous and complex structure of diffusion using sound documents. The structure works as a brain and contains a number of period documents as well as sound recordings made at the historic sites. A stochastic diffusion system as well as detection of stimuli has been integrated using PureData, and tries to get closer to the functioning of the brain by the formation of images or mental words. The voice or sounds emitted by the participant create an interaction, finding their echo in the system of diffusion, and engage in destructure of the narrative. This diffusion system recreates the 'mirror effect' which in clinical cases attenuates phantom pain due to trauma. Assuming that each of these sources is a potential memory of this period, the system of diffusion mimics the memory which can be permanently activated by an external stimulus which would modify the evolution of its content as well as the nature of the sounds produced and which resurfaces at the participants' consciousness. A mass of historical information collides here and is utilised by the technique of assembly in cut-up, resulting in a deconstruction of the narrative and the mode of narration. The encounter of the present and collective memories allows the participant an analysis of the facts passed through the causal links that they have with their present lives. The use of a random and chaotic system makes it possible to the affect that can be put by the creator in his work. Like some painters or writers, I wish to encourage involuntary gestures, without seeking to control the documentary material or favour direct interpretation by others. The deconstruction of the chronology leaves the participant free to interpret the different combinations of meaning, contradictions and anachronisms. The piece is intended to encourage the participant to feel emotions about the collective memory of a European trauma.

tag: generativearts

Marc Lee
Zürich
http://marclee.io

Proyecto: 10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different, VR (Virtual Reality)

10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different deals with urbanization and globalization in the digital age. The user moves through visual worlds posted publicly by others on social networks such as YouTube, Flickr or Twitter. Here these personal impressions are streamed in real time like windows to our changing world. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey into constantly new image and sound collages in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and similarities. In virtual space, this information is visualized on cubes that rise at different heights to become a kind of skyline.
The work deals with how our cities are continuously changing and increasingly resemble one. This results in more and more non-places/places of lost places in the sense of Marc Augé’s book and essay Non-Places, which could exist all over the world without any true local identity (mostly anonymous transition zones such as motorways, hotel rooms or airports).

tag: generativearts VR

Salice Giovanni
Italia

www.giovanni-salice.eu

Proyecto: Nano Sound

The images you are about to see have been discovered in 2013 at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials – Oak Ridge.They appear for the first time on the screen and show nanostructures that have never been seen before. However, the widest physical manifestation of these processes is still so small that it can only be described by using data.

In order to make even the deepest layer of the matter comprehensible, the data has been transformed into sound by the process of sonification.

tag: nanotechnoly