Chilean Artists at the Ars Electronica Festival
The Life of Crystals
Mónica Bate (CL)
Starting with the observation of piezoelectric crystals, the TLC project works at the crossroads of the natural and artificial, life and the machine, art and science. The experience aims to produce a poetic technogical re-purposing, where it can be seen as transformed natural matter for which humans play an evolutionary role.
Mezza: Archivo Liberado
Gonzalo Mezza (CL), Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela (CL)
Mezza: Archivo Liberado reviews, in the eyes of a media art pioneer, the initial processes of technological implementation in Chilean art. By a selection of documents and works, the exhibition offers a revisionist view, presented as an exercise in media archeology, exploring one’s own history (of middle age) under different layers through a body of work that progressively models and anticipates important conflicts of today’s society.
Meditative Symbiosis
Jean Danton Laffert (CL), Karin Astudillo (CL), Camilo Gouet (CL)
Meditative Symbiosis is a trans-disciplinary project that explores the interdependence of a living organism and an electronic system. Composed of containers with plants and sensors inside, a cycle of mutual dependence is created between the growing process of the plants and the dynamic adaptation of the system, the sum of which generates an evolutionary, bio-electronic aesthetic.
D21 Proyectos de Arte, Santiago
D21 Art Projects was established in October 2009 as an independent center for creation, production and exhibition of visual arts and poetry in Santiago, Chile, and aims to contribute actively, independently and in a multidisciplinary context to the cultural life of Chile while developing and strengthening the international reach of Chilean art.
Vocals
Carla Bolgeri (CL/IT), Francisco Marín (CL)
Vocals is a work that explores the sonic power of language in an acoustic and corporal praxis that seeks in the voice a vehicle to experience a sonorous state in the body and in matter. We seek to transform our communication processes into other possible configurations of meaning, in a moving territory and a changing landscape, the layers of language are superimposed on the meanings, sounds, vowels, noises, in various phonic forms that move in the foundations of our communication.
KHIPU
Constanza Piña (CL)
This piece is an open-source textile computer based on the manufacture of an astronomical Inca khipu, the cords of which were hand-spun with alpaca wool and copper wire. They function as an antenna for electromagnetic fields that is connected to an amplifier circuit. This project is a sound and arts interpretation of the technology, wisdom and history of our ancestors.
