*WE-ARE-MAKING-DIGITAL-ART* *PARATISSIMA, TURIN, ITALY* Opening: November 3-7, 2010 c/o Stefilm Via Galliari 5 3: h 21-23 5: h 20-23 6/7: h 10-13/18-23
we-are-making-digital-art.com Program The first exhibition by a group of artists who have been working over a period of years with electronic media in the field of performance art, dance, sound, video and digital light. ____________________________________________________________ *“Hymn” Interactive sound installation by Ennio Bertrand* “Hymn” is a work that is realised through sound. It is an interactive installation managed by a digital automatism that senses the proximity of the hands of visitors – participants, who approach or move away from the symbolic objects exhibited. It is a small personal digital theatre, populated by “magical” concealed actors who echo our creative childhood gestures. The movement of the hands becomes, in real time, associated with one of the ten sounds contained in the computer’s memory. As the hand gradually moves closer to the object, the sound will be played in advance , if the hand stops the sound also ceases. And if the hand withdraws the sound also ‘retreats’ and turns back on itself. A sort of slow motion in sound. The material, the sounds, are phrases freely derived from a part of “Kaddish” by Allen Ginsberg and are automatically repeated by the computer’s voice. Written at the end of the 1950’s Ginsberg’s mournful poem was dedicated to his mother who died in a mental asylum. This work of reinterpretation is a shamanistic and propitious hymn so that poetic writings reappear that enlighten our dark contemporary state. The installation was realised using Theremino, a new digital system that I have just developed for managing the interaction of sound and digital material. ____________________________________________________________ *“Analogical metamorphoses” interactive video installation by fannidada* The analogical metamorphoses by Fannidada are interactive video installations where the public, analogically manipulating the video signal, metamorphose the electronic images that become coloured, kaleidoscopically disintegrating the quality. *To Follow the Bye-ways* To follow the bye-ways can be a way of living. To leave the certain for the uncertain, to search for new visions in everyday life. Two bicycle wheels fixed to a tubular iron structure that supports four monitors, running, analogic metamorphosis that, modifying the colours of the visualised images, offers new images to the spectators. *The suitcase of the Metamorphosis* What is inside the suitcase? tales of the journey, images, sensations but, above all, the pleasure of the surprise is in the unexpected. A suitcase, a monitor, two pre-amplified microphones, a good mix to create a “fantastic” journey. www.fannidada.com ____________________________________________________________ *“Synthesis”, interactive dance performance by Micron* Documentary video of the performance and exhibition of the digital paintings and mixed media created during the show. On stage two performers and SUMI, an interactive system for painting with light, that inspires the SUMI - in the pictorial style of the far east. The technology becomes part of the search in the creation of new forms of expression that confer on the actor the role of a warrior of art, of an art visible, coloured. The dance animates the colour, “ the bodily gesture traces graphic signs sensed and replayed by another body”. Throughout the picture of the mixed media and digital actions one enters into the space, becoming space. ____________________________________________________________ *“Rossore”, Sensible interactive light installation by Pietro Mussini* The system consists of a case that houses the hardware needed to activate the performance. It is made up by leds which have an intermittent, fast, sparse and punctiform effect. Getting closer to the system, the visitor activates a luminous exuberance with a single, strong and saturated tone, which is meant to activate a relationship with the world, with our body, with its extension, space and border, with others, with the materiality of the body, of the hands, of the eyes. The telling of what is happening, of what is expected, comes with the encounter of apparently extraneous bodies that reveal, through a gesture, what is being exposed: seizure of outlines, eyes, interaction of bodies. ____________________________________________________________ www.we-are-making-digital-art.com <http://www.we-are-making-digital-art.com/>
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