Abstract: This piece proposes a space to rethink some of the long-lasting effects, and formulates a visual exercise on the geological transformation and destruction of living ecosystems. We want to create a visual that reflects on the great acceleration of these changes (Anthropocene) and their repercussions on climate and biodiversity. A visual and living fresco that encapsulates the unstoppable disaster before our eyes, that devours and consumes nature in an exercise of terrible beauty and where we contemplate, in a very sensory and almost tactile way, the effects and changes produced on the earth’s surface.
Using techniques to photograph frequencies outside our visible light spectrum (ultraviolet and infrared) and time lapse explores ways of seeing complexities, forces, and natural phenomena that are not obvious to the human eye. We want to work on the technique to take an exploratory, deep and conscious look and make visible the invisible forces of nature (erosion, thawing, floods …), observing it through a different perspective.
Biography: Hamill is a studio formed by Anna Díaz and Pablo Barquín, a creative duo specializing in the development of innovation projects based on experimentation and the mixing of emerging and traditional techniques, to create new visual communication formats. They carry out artistic and technological research in the field of visual arts, live shows and the exploration of light and sound. For each project they develop their own tools and inventions, combining digital and analog effects in totally unexpected ways. They mix physical engineering, lighting design, moving image and visual programming to expand your imagination far beyond the screen and open it up to more tangible experiences.
Artwork / FORMS (it’s a)Live
Abstract: Santi Vilanova, artist of the Playmodes collective, presents a new performance mutation of FORMS. This new iteration of the project -whose “Screen Ensemble” version is part of the Beep collection of Electronic Art and of the exhibition that can be seen at the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau- explores the compositional possibilities of visual music through generative graphic algorithms and image sonification.
On this occasion, the artist has developed a live controllable audiovisual system, which generates infinite variations of sonicated spectrograms, and which operates halfway between the sound machine and the live musical instrument.
A series of generative graphic algorithms produce spectrally coherent images, based on a set of randomness and probabilistic parameters controlled in real time by the artist. These sonograms are sonificated to generate soundscapes that may or may not incorporate elements of “classical” harmony and rhythmic periodicity.
The real-time sonification process analyzes a column of the image -the header- and links the brightness of each pixel to the amplitude of a sine wave bank. This is the reverse process of sound spectrums representation: instead of visualizing existing sound recordings, a visual representation is created first and then transformed into sound by additive synthesis.
In short, the engine becomes a digital instrument for sound and visual creation that can refer both to the more conservative schemes of music inherited from Romanticism and to the atonality / microtonality of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as opening a new audiovisual creation field that unifies sound and image in a single common code.
Biography: Playmodes is an audiovisual research studio. A hybrid team of engineers, musicians and designers who work with home-made digital technologies, breathing life into generative light and sound instruments.
Their deep interest in the relationships between visual and auditory phenomena, as well as their skills in music composition, leads Playmodes to create projects where sound and image are treated as a single matter. In most of their projects -from immersive installations to instrumental performances- the same streams of data generate both audio and visuals through custom tools, driving the audience into strong synaesthetic perceptions.
Passionate about art, design, maths, physics, code, cymatics and nature, they share all these passions in lectures and workshops at universities, schools or institutions. Being part of a global network of creative coders and artists, they collaborate with people from around the world to deliver high quality and innovative projects in the cultural spectrum.
In recent years Playmodes has developed projects for international art festivals (Barcelona, Houston, Prague, Lyon, Las Vegas, Orlando, Karlsruhe), for cultural and commercial projects (light design for the Copenhagen Opera, Installation for Facebook at Rio Olympics) or as guest speakers at international design conferences (FITC Amsterdam, IALD Albuquerque, OFFF Barcelona)
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