~brumatana Self-directed methods 17-10-18

What are you making?

I am making interactive audiovisual installations related to micro and macro dimensions, researching the universal patterns and physical phenomena. I work with transparency objects and studying how the light diffracts on them, I stretch and modulate the sound waves, to reveal their hidden parts. The last project an exploration of the micro-world inside the human body, how is it build and which are the expansion laws of human matter that can relate to the origin and growing of other organic beings and dead matter. I am assembling pieces of transparent white plastic and make it look like human organs and tissues. I draw on them the structure of human cells, nerves, vein networks and other organic forms. The plastic is gently floating in the water and gives us an impression of an embryo or an artificial experiment attempting to creating life in the laboratorium. A small motor has the duty to give a heart beat movement to the 'artificial organism' giving to us the impression of a small amount of life in the diassembled organs.

Why are you making it?

I am interested in imperceptible dimensions that can't be perceived with ordinary human senses; the perception of time related to human, the motion and exploration of space in different atmospheres with physical laws unknown to the human being and experimental modulating of the sound and light waves. I try to trick the human senses to give the spectators an alienated sensation out of ordinary human reality and make them notice the subtle hidden possibly dimensions around us. I want to give the spectator an option to travel with their imagination in possibly distinct ways of perceiving living the life. I ask my self how does it feel to be a microbe or bacteria in the space or what's the sensation to live deep inside the ocean with a high pressure, how is to see 30.000 frames per second like an insect or feel the magnetic fields like birds. What are the almost imperceptible human interactions caused by subtle chemical reactions moving molecules through the space and how can we expand our perception over the borderlines of our ordinary truth. With my latest research described above I am returning from the cold physical laws back to the warm human body. I want to see the boundaries between live and dead matter, dying or growing cells and organs, the rhythm of heartbeat, flow of the liquids, chemical reactions, and electrical signals transmitting our reality. The 'artificial organs' are made of plastic, the opposite matter of living organisms, but yet so loved and needed by the humans in this era. Partially living organs can be comparable with dying earth caused by the pollution with plastic. Suffocating in nylon strates can represent the heavy breathing of the trapped organism in the consumerism, slowly dying without any expectation of surviving, but still following the desire of living. The frequency and the type of breathing can be represented in many ways, it can be also seen as panic moments, fear, release, fight, inhales and exhales at the edge of the life.... I want the spectator to feel the subtle and transparent veil between living and dying, to become conscious of the meaningless time we have, to loose the importance of fake ideals needed to feel safe and make the impression of the heartbeats counting our life time. The suffocating is not only physic but it can be also mental. Suffocating from heavy thoughts, ideals, expectations, or realities without any further explorations, limited to the satisfy basic human needs... Sometimes the asphyxiation can be totally oniric in their origin, lost in delirium or nightmares. We know some forms of it as mental illness, when the human thought doesn't have any reference to function or synchronise with the environment. To be continued...

Does it relate to other things you have done and if yes, how?

Yes, is a continuous story, I don't see my projects as distinct, but as a part of my inner exploration and evolving. it's a constant enthusiasm of taking a part in inconspicuous situations when observing the outside or inside world. Even if I went through many techniques of expression (from drawing and painting to installation and digital images) I can still feel a part of the esthetic and the feeling stays the same. In a technical way everything looks quite related to me. To construct an image and develop it from sketch to painting doesn't seems very different from how to edit a video. The composition, layers, colours, harmony and rhythm, everything is still there. The dynamic trace of my drawings, which I take as most basic and pure form of my expression, fetches out in any kind of technique I use.

How is it different to other things you have done?

My research was different when I studied Fine Arts in Venice. I was trying to evoke images from my subconscious to find the archetypes. It was another type of research, I studied mythology and old books, I read thousands of tales from all the world to find the matching parts. Let's say I am somehow still searching for the archetypes, but in the core of the universal structure instead inside the human subconscious, seeking for the archetypes from the physic phenomena and quantum instead from mythology.

What are the most significant choices you made recently?

As I said before, I returned from the concepts of physical phenomena, space and universe law research, exploration of the behaving of microparticles, light, sound and magnetic waves back to the human body and live organisms. Another significant decision was to explore and learn so many new techniques, from different types of coding, Arduino, sensors and circuit bending, programs like Max MSP, Processing, Xbox Kinect, work more with audio and field recording, learn better Ableton, discover photography and film, which were quite extraneous worlds to me until now... I was always a bit frightened from this totally unknown worlds to me, but I decided to try to deal with them all and now I am slowly slipping into the magic of new discoveries.