Born Digital Digital Art Exhibition
“… mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.” – Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The exhibition
The artworks emit sensations that invite us to immerse ourselves; sound brought from the real world, but replicated in the form of particles; audio-reactive images that are presented in the absence of sound; the story that is represented as a tapestry, not analog but digital, that does not shelter but comforts with intimate narratives; repeated footprints that show human-soil communication interface; silent spectrograms; and the rational and irrational of art and science in a world created from its own logic.
The Artworks
Quilt Stop by Linh Dao
Truck: Mobile; storable; enclosed. I am interested in the truck as a body of immigrants, in this case, both literally and metaphorically, for the 39 immigrants who died in the Southeast of England in November of 2019.
While the truck is a symbol of mobility, it arrived while the people it carries did not. It is an object of fluidity and movement but also is a monument piece, a relic, of sort.
I use a generative quilt made of Vietnamese folk patterns to represent this arbitrary object. It is both a body of immigrants and of their stories, each is different: The reasons for why they left, and the reasons for why they deserve a better life.
Silent Disco by ibz
“Silent disco” is a collection of audio-reactive visuals presented in the absence of sound. These videos were generated by taking in audio input as the catalyst to create its own visual choreography. Using simple geometry, noise and instancing, a modest yet riveting digital aesthetics links the five dancers in this online silent disco cube.
Sole-Soil by Julia Vergazova and Nikolya Ulyanov
Geological traces of the Anthropocene are chicken bones and footprints of the soles of sneakers. As an alternative to the dominant approaches in the field of modern environmental management, namely the extraction and exploitation of natural resources, we would like to propose a more careful approach to the relationship with the earth’s surface at the micro-level of the soil horizon, associated with the personal contribution of each individual.
The main element of the human-soil communication interface (or soil-sole) is the reliefs and dents left by the surface of the soles of our shoes. In this project, we propose various configurations of shoe soles obtained with methods of machine learning and analysis.
We have studied the data of different soil samples. Next, we analyzed the properties of density, flowability, and rock hygroscopicity. Further, by setting target parameters based on these data, by machine learning of the neural network on datasets of sole patterns used in forensic science, we generate the optimal and most favorable sole designs for a given area of the sole shape, which could carry the recreational potential, prevent erosion, weathering or swamping of the area of application.
Archive’s translation for its survival by Perla Mata Chairez
I have been keeping sound files with information on industrial activity and its effects on the health of thousands of children in the city where I live. A fact that has been kept silent for years.
In this sense and with the premise that this info is censurable, I made a visual translation of the sound files through a software and a sound synthesizer as an alternative to avoid it.
Graphic shapes can be decoded to be heard. The spectrograms show a sound possibility.
Sinfonía XXIV by Victoria Lazcano de la Lastra and Carolina Boettner
Sinfonía XXIV is an interactive sound installation that brings into perspective Time’s malleability, encouraging us to rethink Time as an imposed structure into which we are drawn.
To create this terrestrial symphony, sounds are captured from the 24 Time Zones. Each sound is activated when stimulated by a passing person and brought along with others to the same time and space.
Bringing in question, with its simultaneity, Time’s relative nature.
The piece is ever-changing by the people who transit the exhibition space: a timeless symphony where past, present and future blend together and form a wholeness that frees Time of its lineal stream.
The Gallery by Lucas Dima
Art made of bits, digital art, is shown in space that is also made of bits, a space that does not know the real world, its rules, nor its logics, and allows a digital native art, without denning its origin, and keeping its natural ecosystem.
Moving away from the traditional galleries formed by artworks made of atoms, and without trying to imitate them, this gallery seeks to create worlds and experiences different from the ones of traditional galleries, and also from the virtualization attempts of traditional galleries.
This gallery seeks to expand digital art and give it a place of freedom, development and interactivity that is not limited by the barriers of the real world.