curator: Kóan Jeff Baysa M.D.
organisation: Branko Franceschi
As sensory beings, we experience and gather knowledge about the world through our senses, but we ultimately shape reality through "perception" formed by the network of neurons in our brain. The double meaning of the exhibition title alludes to the sculptural and the physical, i.e. the ability of sound to occupy space and its influence and haptic properties, as well as its Frankensteinization: digital reassembly, reorganization and fusion of sensory experiences on a unique level into neo-languages and new experiences.
The artists selected for this exhibition leave the expected paths and further strengthen the legitimacy of sound as a creative medium. Contributing to the growing technoculture of interactive, multi-level and immersive installations and performances, they indicate a shift in focus from objects to how they are perceived. Audible secretly unites with the visual to create new, abstract, emotional and fictional spaces. Cognitive neuroscience examines how the world's physical properties are organized in the brain to create conscious perception.
Igor Molochevski is a new media artist, documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. He bases his work on the reintegration of media and technology. His workflow includes live coding, interactive and generative programming, kinetic sculptures, sound design and digital shaping. His work is defined by de-structuring visual and conceptual paradigms. In the Belly of the Invisible Beast is a generative audio-visual installation in which tension is established between a Buddhist singing bowl activated by someone in the audience and a dynamic self-generating digital image.
Mark Bolotin is an award-winning Australian multimedia artist, innovator and founder and art director of the leading interactive arts company Synarcade Audio-Visuals. He creates not only unique multimedia works in which music, film and theatre merge with each other but also innovative forms of collaboration between artist and audience. In his artistic practice, he emphasises the possibilities of interactive technology in celebrating and questioning the notions of human identity, creativity and genetic mutations at the beginning of the 21st century. His current flagship project is the Lumiphonic Choir of Creatures: a gigantic twelve-headed audio-visual creature that sings or recites prose when prompted by the artist or an audience member.
Jiayi and Shih-Wen Young are California professors of mathematics and physics at The American River University in Sacramento, California. They thank Dr. Barbara Block and Dr. Randy Kochevar of Stanford University, who not only generously allowed them to use data from the TOPP project but also helped them create specific data sets that facilitated the creation of their artistic vision. The data-to-sound installation uses information gathered from live monitoring of Pacific predators through the TOPP project, launched in 2000 as one of seventeen projects within the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year effort joined by eighty nations in an effort to study and explain diversity and abundance. of life in the oceans where that life is lived, just as it was and will be lived. Tagged animals transmit data via polar-orbiting satellites such as Argos. In this installation, the migration trajectories of one Pacific shark and three northern elephant seals tracked over approximately two years (2011-2013) are intertwined. Using sound, they try to discover the sense of direction and spatial relationships between predators and their prey. A shark was chosen as the reference point. Each path is mapped as a two-channel sound clip, and these sound clips are then overlapped to create a web of intertwined journeys that contribute to the complex Pacific ecosystem.
Blake Shaw, an award-winning twenty-four-year-old media artist whose work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries and at festivals and art fairs across North America and Europe, presents Tata Francis and Rodeo, an audio-visual installation that explores the first three months of the new year through found sounds and video recorded on December 21, 2012 Shaw creates audio-visual Purkinje patterns—repetitions in light and sound with slight periodic shifts that have been found to modulate brainwave frequency—to shape a comprehensive media landscape. For the installation, he uses holophone sound to create a binaural three-dimensional sound effect.