[spectre] WE-ARE-MAKING-DIGITAL-ART - PARATISSIMA, TURIN, ITALY

[Ennio Bertrand]

*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

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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.
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*“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.
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*“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.

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*“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.
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*“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.
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