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The TLC project started with a simple and familiar question: “How does this work?” Though this may be a recurring one for those who live surrounded by machines, this doesn’t imply that we have surpassed our ‘black box-like’ relationship with certain types of technology.
With this conceptual outline, the TLC project proposes to observe a material that is abundantly used in electronics and a widely known phenomenon: piezoelectricity. At the intersection of the natural and the artificial, between life and the machine, art and science; technology will be re-purposed in a way that isn’t practical or efficient, but poetic and symbolic. The archeology of matter will lead us to reflect on our dominion of it, and to see it as transformed natural matter for which humans play an evolutionary role.
Project Credits:
- Collaborators:
- Antonio Galdámez PhD, Department of Chemistry, Universidad de Chile.
- Sound: Claudio Muñoz
- Artist-Engineer: Álvaro Pimentel
- Supported by Departamento de Artes Visuales – Universidad de Chile, MediaMAC-Anilla, Fundación Flores, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile
Biography:
Mónica Bate (CL) is an artist born in Santiago de Chile. Her recent work explores how art, technology and science can dialogue in terms of procedures and symbolic constructions. It has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum (U.K.); the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Fundación Telefónica and TSONAMI (Chile); at Google Half Moon Bay in San Francisco, NIME Michigan, Ventana244 Gallery, Brooklyn and New York University (USA); at Sala Punto de Encuentro, in Montevideo (Uruguay); ISEA 2017 (Colombia), among others.
http://etab.cl or http://monicabate.com
