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In a dark space, I intend to invite the viewer to perform some movements that will be transcode into vibrations for the phytoplankton. As a feedback, it will emit light that will then generate sounds, feeding the dance of the participant. | In a dark space, I intend to invite the viewer to perform some movements that will be transcode into vibrations for the phytoplankton. As a feedback, it will emit light that will then generate sounds, feeding the dance of the participant. | ||
This feedback loop will thus become a conversation that, like dance, will demand a mutual respect from both parties and a constant attention to the partner in order to find a certain synchronism. | This feedback loop will thus become a conversation that, like dance, will demand a mutual respect from both parties and a constant attention to the partner in order to find a certain synchronism. | ||
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*Max Jitter/MSP [[GMU:Connecting Max to the World/Frederic Blais-Belanger]] | *Max Jitter/MSP [[GMU:Connecting Max to the World/Frederic Blais-Belanger]] | ||
=== | ===Final Thoughts on a first Biomedia experience=== | ||
Coming from a photography based practice, this first experience in Biomedia got me out of my comfort zone. | |||
If I had to describe my experience in one word, I would go for "Failure". It might sounds negative at first, but failure for me is everything but negative. I mean, when is Failure the end of something? Failure is always the beginning of something else; the beginning of a new attempt or a new path in my work. In fact, failure is deeply embedded in the processes of learning. It forces to raise new questions and to look at new angles that then leads to new knowledge and of course progress... a process that actually success cannot bring you. | |||
Even though failures and experimentations have always been part of my art practice, whether it was in the photography darkroom or with video installations, I feel that I have never reached that level of failures since I am in the field of Biomedia. | |||
By working this semester with Pyrocystis Fusiformis, which are Bioluminescent algae, I developed a new creative process; one which “I” have to adapt to medium as I can no longer control it. Through my attempts of creating a platform where the viewer and the living organism could communicate by the forms of movements and sounds, I learned to better care and to better understand my medium as well as other forms of life. It made me look at and acknowledge non-humans, but foremost it made me took a few steps back and pace my productivity down at their own rhythm so we can connect together and work together... or as I like to say, dance together. | |||
So with all the failures Biomedia provided me within the last couple of months, I can definitively say today that I grew up as an artist. I developed new creative processes and new skills but most importantly I’ve opened up myself to new visions of art and nature. | |||
There is actually a better word to express my vision of Bioart: Polyphony. This idea of combining simultaneously two different rhythms, two individual melody, one of the artist and one of the medium, that in the end find a way of harmonizing with each other. | |||