Umbral

Umbral is an interactive work of art that aims to explore visual results, using the circle as an expressive resource, in combination with typography in motion based on reflection on the transformation and resignification of understandings and knowledge regarding art, in combination of thinking about the use of written language as a generating tool for the work of art.

The work allows users to participate in the resulting visualization through the use of the mouse, which allows them to observe the superposition of a circle with the word if and the characters of the alphabet in combination with words such as: “random and draw” referring to the programming language, which are in constant movement, transformation and repetition in a space where their meaning is constituted by using the concept of threshold as a metaphorical resource, which refers to an initial moment prior to being something more, how it develops in the processes creative aspects of the artists in the generation of the work of art, that is, about the existence of production stages as well as about thinking about the work of art that is resulting from the codification.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Regarding technical development, all forms of texts start from a centrality and on the one hand words appear with different hierarchies with their locations designed based on their possible overlapping configurations, along with the alphabet that is in the same size but on a smaller scale with respect to the words, with a random change of gray, designed to generate spatiality, luminosity and association with electrical energy. Each of the characters is a circle with the repetition of itself that moves in expansion from one location to another, generating at times situations of great proximity and others where an out of visual field is perceived.

Artistic references:

• Michael Noll, Hilma af Klint, Georg Nees and Piet Mondrian.

Biography

• BREA, José Luis. (2008). “Redefinition of artistic practices (s. 21)” in The Third Threshold. Statute of artistic practices in the era of cultural capitalism. Murcia: CENDEAC, pp. 106-113
• BREA, José Luis. (2002). “Brief (and messy) antiglossary – or dictionary of topics – on electronic art” in The Postmedia Era. Communicative action, (post) artistic practices and neomedial devices. Salamanca: CASA Editorial, pp. 4-8.
• BÜRGER, Peter. ([1974], 2010). “III. The avant-garde work of art”, in Avant-garde Theory. Buenos Aires: Las Cuarenta, pp. 79-117.