múltiple

In this work I set out to explore different possible compositions with simple elements and how they coexist with each other. Something as subtle as a couple of lines can create something much more complex, depending on how we handle it.

The work is open to two possibilities: contemplate or intervene. You can simply observe what happens in the default image or modify the composition, creating a new look. The look of whoever interacts.

“«Creating values» is intervening in the personal history of the viewer. Creating a taste, giving them a new look” – AIRA, César

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

In this work I wanted to experiment with the combination of different structures with repetitive iteration patterns. Although they are three different images, they all seek to have something in common. The painting on the left, for example, is complemented by the one on the right when, at a certain point, the left sphere “completes” the circular void on the right. On the other hand, the painting below is like a combination of the first two, but in constant movement and undulation. The click is in this case the gateway to interact with these figures, altering components such as size, axis or density. Depending on how many clicks we make or for how long, multiple different compositions will be created, although always conditioned and coexisting with a certain structure specific to each canvas. What happens to us as humans when we have control over something else? Or when we don’t have it? What happens when we can model the intangible? We see an object or a figure on a screen. It has its own size, density, position, movement. We know that we cannot touch it, at least not at this moment from this place: it is not in our tangible space, although it exists and has its own materiality. We can touch the surface where it is being reflected, we can press the screen, zoom in, but in itself, we are not touching the figure. Apparently, it is something intangible. But what if I can manipulate this figure? I can change its density, size or position, whether through the mouse, a key, a sign, or whatever. Is it still intangible? It’s confusing to think that we can modify or interact with something material without actually touching it. Is the machine/technology the medium that allowed us to “touch the untouchable”? Although the figure remains intangible, if we accept that it has a digital materiality we could speak of a new form of “digital tangibility”, where we manipulate a representation through interfaces. Tangibility is then redefined, no longer as physical contact, but as interaction.

Literature

FRICKE, Christiane. (1999). “Nuevos Medios”. En AAVV. Arte de siglo XX. Vol. II. München: Taschen, pp. 576-590.

AIRA, César. ([2013], 2016). “Sobre el arte contemporáneo”. en Sobre el arte contemporáneo. Buenos Aires: Literatura Random House, pp. 11-56.

ARNS, Inke. (2005). “El código como acto de habla performativo”. En Revista Artnodes, Julio de 2005, ISSN 1695-5951.