Angustia

The work Angustia is composed of a set of simple lines that simulate a heart rate monitor, where the viewer who views it can interfere with it, giving it an end. (Instructions in the sketch)

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

This piece is inspired by the work Lettres de mére (6) by Vera Molnár, 1990. I find it very interesting how something so simple can be so complex, so subtle. In this work you can see the repetition of calligraphy, thus projecting a resulting image. Like in my sketch which lines shape a heart monitor.

My idea came from the class “towards an aesthetics of generative art” where I saw Molnár’s work and drew what is expressed below in the photograph.

I can make a connection between my work and Helinich Nathalie’s text “The work beyond the object” where it is mentioned that the viewer is as important as the work, and at the same time can intervene in it. So my idea, my intention is that when the person opens the sketch they can finish it by making an intervention through a series of explanations. What is at stake is the dematerialization of the work because when you refresh it, there is space again to complete the heart rate monitor simulator.

From my reflection based on Brea’s text “Writing in artistic practices” my sketch is an artistic practice, on a computer, in a freely circulating technological device.

Art is no longer exclusive to a certain social class, since there is public circulation. It is produced, distributed, disseminated.