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= '''Trasnmediale Forum''' = | = '''Trasnmediale Forum''' = | ||
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The student forum in the Transmediale was certainly interesting. It was my first participation in this Festival. The preparation as a group of students was dispersed, in my opinion, there was not good preparation for the festival even with anticipated time. Perhaps it was not clear how and what we would do to participate in the festival since our projects and perspectives were totally different and we could not talk together about a single topic, but about what each one was working as a class project. | The student forum in the Transmediale was certainly interesting. It was my first participation in this Festival. The preparation as a group of students was dispersed, in my opinion, there was not good preparation for the festival even with anticipated time. Perhaps it was not clear how and what we would do to participate in the festival since our projects and perspectives were totally different and we could not talk together about a single topic, but about what each one was working as a class project. | ||
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Eco etymology: Latin "echo", from the Greek "ἠχώ" and means "sound". Greek mythology tells us about the nymph Echo, whose voice repeated others in the forest, after his death. It is also called echo to the footprint, at the conceptual level, which leaves something behind. | Eco etymology: Latin "echo", from the Greek "ἠχώ" and means "sound". Greek mythology tells us about the nymph Echo, whose voice repeated others in the forest, after his death. It is also called echo to the footprint, at the conceptual level, which leaves something behind. | ||
'''Concept''' | |||
It is impossible not to interact with our environment in a parasitic, symbiotic or beneficial way, however, what is important is how we relate to this according to our needs, so we can not ignore the current construction of the digital, virtual and technological eco-system of the century XXI. This "eco-system" is vertiginous, light and inconsistent, so the concept of time is not the same and makes change the norm. The uncertainty produced by the now vivid "Liquid Modernity" widely described by Zygmunt Bauman in the book bearing the same name, has caused the almost unlimited acceleration of individualism, the siege, the transience, the finitude and the fragility of "almost everything". | |||
This modernity receives the constant creation of digital content inspired by "reality" where the actor subject of the "eco-system" seeks to build itself with a flexible identity that allows it to adapt to different scenarios and people, but that is no longer related to the construction of an "I", but that is in function of the others. This generates a strong dependence on acceptance. The subject takes a selfie, edit it according to the construction of the Self = others (Perhaps whiter teeth, attenuate skin color, remove "imperfections, more bust, etc.) uploads the photo which is already a liquid element, superfluous and transient, awaits acceptance through a like, this is how the person has been subjected to a "temporary" assisted evolution through technology. | |||
In this project, I look for the artistic approach to this “concept” using a wooden box, modified natural leaves, and an experimental video as elements of representation. The leaf and the process for its fragility turn out to be a finite process, it externalizes the connection of which the leaf was part, part of something bigger, a tree. Now the leaf is individualized, it is separated from what the leaf “is” and it is transformed into a skeleton that remembers what the leaf was. The almost translucent skeleton reveals the connections and the natural microcosm that has lost the ability to regulate itself after separating, as it renounces its own homeostasis. The finitude of human corporeality is represented by the wooden box, inside this box is projected a video of echoes generated by individuals who have built a digital "me" to the complacency of the "other". | |||
* '''''How did this project start?''''' | * '''''How did this project start?''''' | ||
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- ''Leaves process'' | - ''Leaves process'' | ||
I looked over some processes that I could be used to make transparent or skeletal the sheets, I had an experimentation stage with this process. I started by leaving the leaves in a container with water for a week, during this time the chlorophyll of the leaves was fading, so the water became dirty and had to be changed every week. After the first month, I noticed that only the leaves type: Maple, Oak, Elm, Field maple, Poplar and Field Maple lasted and did not break or disintegrate easily. These were the leaves that I worked with. | I looked over some processes that I could be used to make transparent or skeletal the sheets, I had an experimentation stage with this process. I started by leaving the leaves in a container with water for a week, during this time the chlorophyll of the leaves was fading, so the water became dirty and had to be changed every week. After the first month, I noticed that only the leaves type: Maple, Oak, Elm, Field maple, Poplar and Field Maple lasted and did not break or disintegrate easily. These were the leaves that I worked with. The first set of leaves were submerged in water for 2 and a half months. The change was very slow, I could observe the small pieces of the coating or waxy cuticle of the leaves. The second set of leaves was in water with sodium carbonate. I put the baking soda in the oven for 30 minutes at 250 degrees. This generates a chemical reaction that changes its formula from Na2CO3 to NaHCO3, it helps to clean and discolor the leaves. With this process, the sheets were easier to brush. The general process with every leave was pealing the skin softly with different types of brushes. | ||
[[File:Leaves_types.jpg|400px]] | |||
Video process: ''"How I made leaves transparent"'' | Video process: ''"How I made leaves transparent"'' | ||
[[File:Video_pre_1.jpg| | [[File:Video_pre_1.jpg|500px|link=https://youtu.be/5Gh_zFFY7bg]] | ||
[[File:H_1.jpg| | [[File:H_1.jpg|498px|link=https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Leaves_Process_gallery]] | ||
''Please visit'' [[Leaves Process gallery]] | ''Please visit'' [[Leaves Process gallery]] | ||
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- ''Concept development'' | |||
My interest in sociology has led me to read books like liquid modernity, this being one of the books with one of the most relevant and accurate theories about the social behavior of the 21st century. My desire was to express part of the message of this book through an artistic experience, so I chose my Biomedia project as a channel. | |||
Liquid modernity is a form of social organization whose fundamental characteristic is transience, which is part of it always flows and is finite. Starting from this theory generate the concept of Eco-Humam, a wooden box that would account for the vertiginous transformations of our current society in the world of virtuality. | |||
Our social interaction in the virtual world presents us with another vision of temporality in which it does not stop creating content that besets us and generates a dystopia between the "legacy" and the permanence (Echo) through the constant content and reality of a superfluous image that disappears. | |||
[[File:Z-Bauman.jpg|200px]] | |||
Liquid modernity by Zygmunt Bauman | |||
Book abstract: | |||
Starting from the postmodern, the philosophical and sociological speculation by Zygmunt Bauman, opens - through the analysis of the phenomenon of globalization - to the meta-level of life, and then circumscribes the most recent thinking on political life, until reaching the liquid modernity: overcoming postmodernity itself. As a result individual, society, ethics, power, religion become those words impregnated with a liquidity capable of condensing in itself the most significant aspects of the present reality: a dimension in which the lasting gives way to the transient, the need to the desire, and the necessity to the utility. | |||
PDF BOOK LIQUID MODERNITY: https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bauman-liquid-modernity.pdf | |||
-'''Bibliography''' | |||
- Bauman Zygmunt: Liquid Modernity. 2000, Polity Press, United Kingdom. | |||
- Dunne, Anthony; Raby, Fiona: Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. 2013, | |||
- Meyers, Williams: Bio art. 2015, London. | |||
[[File:Sketch_2_Eco_Human.jpg|300px]] [[File:sketch_3_Eco_Human.jpg|600px]] | |||
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- ''Video Art process'' | - ''Video Art process'' | ||
[[File:VReality.jpg|310px]] [[File:VReality_2.jpg|410px]] | |||
The aesthetic concept that will decide to use for the design of the aesthetics of Brutalism or also called new ugly. | |||
What is a new brutal-brutalist design? | |||
The origin of brutalist design has its roots in brutalist architecture, an architectural movement that emerged from the current of modernism in the 50s and 70s. The new image is a graphic design trend called Nueva Ugly, which appeared in Europe in 2007 | |||
It is the denial of the canon taken to the extreme. Try to challenge the supposedly correct way of working by mocking the well done. He is not quite sure what the exact origins of New Ugly are. The most accepted theory among the studies of the subject is defined as a response against monotony and against a boring and disenchanted lifestyle due to its lack of prospects for a better future than the past. Therefore, it is not so important because you can practice experimentation without limits. | |||
The video was edited with 2 programs: Adobe premiere and adobe after effects. The material I used for the video was already existing but I modified it to create gifs and images to create the video. | |||
New Ugly Inspiration Art: | |||
https://www.pinterest.es/roquestrew/the-new-ugly/?lp=true | |||
Some Articles about New Ugly and Brutalist design: | |||
https://www.awwwards.com/brutalism-brutalist-websites.html | |||
https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/ | |||
https://medium.com/envato/brutalism-the-ugly-web-design-trend-taking-over-the-internet-2dbc8e822e37 | |||
Video Inside the box: | |||
- ''Box Process'' | [[File:Video_pre_2.jpg|400px|link=https://youtu.be/75oJfNo1DaM]] | ||
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- ''Box Process- Ensembling and final result'' | |||
I used MDF wood of 5mm to make the Eco-human box. | I used MDF wood of 5mm to make the Eco-human box. The size of the box was almost the same size as the screen that was placed in the bottom. I decided to use a laser cut machine for making more prolix de shape of the box. I assembled the wood pieces with hard glue and also hold it with screws to make it more solid and secure for the screen. The inside of the box was painted in black as the rectangular pieces of polystyrene that helped as a base for holding the leaves. I glued the leaves in the polystyrene pieces with hard silicone, these pieces were placed inside the box with a strong adhesive tape. | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
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File:B8.JPG | File:B8.JPG | ||
File:B9.JPG | File:B9.JPG | ||
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</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
[[File:Laser_cutter.mp4||300px]] [[File:Box_ensambling_try1.mp4||300px]] | |||
''Inside Eco Box'' | |||
[[File:INSIDE_ECO_BOX.mp4|500px]] | |||
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* '''''Exhibition- What Matters''''' | * '''''Exhibition- What Matters''''' | ||
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</gallery> | </gallery> | ||