Espectro de Oscilación

Oscillation Spectrum is a work with an optical effect made using the p5.js program that consists of 18 static white lines and 9 black lines in repetitive motion that simulates an oscillation in 2 dimensions. Once the position, speed and direction variables were established, the white lines were drawn and the black lines above them to give the visual effect. The background is gray to reduce the contrast between the lines and thus achieve a more rustic and not so technological visual effect.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

The work is influenced by the works of the American author Ben F. Laposky in the 1950s. Since its conception, it has had a feeling of nostalgia for the “old” media for producing images. A gray tone is used in the background to emulate the sense of the cathode ray tube television screen that was used at that time. The main idea was to restore movement to a work in which the support available at the time of its creation did not have the technology to preserve it, arguing with Nathalie Heinich’s thought that the work goes beyond the object that supports it1. The objects (or technologies) are updated, they change shape, they mutate and perfect themselves, leaving those that preceded them obsolete and useless, but the work remains a work, that is, the message continues to be the one that was once sent and that captivated the people who were able to enjoy it beyond the object that contains it. Perhaps it would also be possible to highlight the sense of dematerialization of the works that Luis Camnitzer2 talks about, in the sense that in Latin America dematerialization is achieved as a means of expression, in this case politics. The materiality that a work once had disappears with the change of support used and thanks to this it is visible from other points of view, perhaps expanding them and thus leading to the work being seen by another type of audience, different from that indicated from the conception of the original work.

Biography

1. Heinich, Nathalie “The paradigm of contemporary art: The work beyond the object”, 2014.
2. Camnitzer, Luis “Art and conceptualism in Latin America”, 2008.