wasterrain

21.04-23.04.2022 | audiovisual installation | live performance | workshop
International Conference: Planetary drifts | Université de Montréal

 

The audiovisual installation wasterrain consists of multiple interactive, performative and virtual reality components. A broken flat screen monitor serves u-matic + telematique as the resource from which faulty, mostly unwanted images and sounds are “mined” and extracted.

Engaging with the invisible and the hyper-abundancy of uncontrolled data, the installation transforms the extracted images into fresh pixel building blocks from which a virtual 3D landscape emerges.

The installation’s reworked data ruins signal the global production of and planetary damage caused by technofossils. Their three dimensional transformation creates zones of indiscernibility, of the messy and spontaneous.

This new, artificial terrain is being explored in an audiovisual live performance in real-time. With the use of such cutting-edge interactive techniques as modified game engines, the artists create a visual instrument that enables viewers to immerse themselves in a direct acoustic and visual experience of transforming and transformative landscapes.

Fragile Fragments

Fragile Fragments AV Performance

 

A collaboration between the sound artist pantea and the visual artists u-matic & telematique, speculates the fragile multiplicities of planetary ecologies and metamorphoses. This dialogue imagines fictitious living forms that might come to life under conditions of extreme environmental pollution and scarcity, such as those present in the disturbed environmental habitats of the deep sea. Living forms in which the lines between plant, animal, and human are blurred. Distinguishing them from one another has become impossible. Different phases of this work represent ascending formation of sounds and visual organic elements that develop continuous growth and porosity within a living-nonliving interface.

 

Audio: pantea [IR]

Video: u-matic & telematique [DE]

19.05.2023 Live AV Performance | as part of the project A Sea Change led by KONTEJNER I bureau of contemporary art praxis | Split | Croatia

30.10.2022 Live AV Performance | Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival | Kunstquartier Bethanien | Berlin

08.10.2022 Live AV Performance Fragile Fragments | Sonic Acts Biennial | Amsterdam | Het Hem

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29.01. – 06.02.2022 AV Installation | CTM-Festival | Kunstraum Kreuzberg | Berlin

Die Arbeit wird in der Ausstellung “Vernetzte Entfremdung” im Rahmen des CTM-Festivals im Kunstraum Kreuzberg gezeigt.
Unterstützt von MUTEK.AE, CTM-Festival  und German Embassy Tehran.