Geo – GP & DP

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Audiovisual Concerts by Giorgio Partesana and Duncan Pinhas
 
In between science and contemplation, analytical and synesthetic approach, Geo aims to give a non-exhaustive, immersive, meditative, audiovisual representation of three ecospheres of the planet, namely hydrosphere, lithosphere and atmosphere.
 
Geo is planned as a trilogy which chapters are drafted to confront matters in their evolving natural states with some of the interactions mankind have with them, so that natural forces are confronted to mastering work employed by mankind.
 
The concerts are drafted as an exploration of micro and macro landscapes created with matters recorded in specific environments. The destination of the journey is an imaginary land where natural and artificial geometries, symbols of our habitats merge into hybrid patterns.
 
Time-based manipulation and amplification of recorded matters evokes a physical sensations allowing abstract geometries to acquire a personal meaning. The project, will to stimulate a reflection about the environment that we inhabit, alternating lulling to uncomfortable moments.
 
 

Geo, Opus II – Solid Matters
 

Geo, Opus II – Solid Matters [Stills]

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This, most recent, second opus focuses on solid matters such as stone and concrete, on which cutting and arranging movements are opposed to aging and breaking.
 

Here is the Full Length Demo.
 
Concerts (selection)
 
Nov 10 – Festival Access, Pau (Residence+Concert)
Oct 10 – Festival Tec Art Eco, Como
May 10 – Podere Casetta, Ravenna
May 10 – Medionauta, Milan
May 10 – Festival Cronosfera, Turin
May 10 – Festival Vision’R, Paris
Mar 10 – Soirée IRL Performance, Paris

Geo, (Study for) Opus I – Liquid Traces
 

Geo, Opus I – Liquid Traces [Stills]

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This preliminary work (yet to be finalized) is focused on liquid matters which fluidity suggests, in some of its forms, the ever mutating flow of things as well as the traces these flow leave.
 
Concerts (selection)
 
Jun 07 – Festival ASC, Turin 
Apr 07 – Mal au Pixel 2007, Paris
Apr 07 – Galerie Librairie En Marge, Paris
Oct 06 – Festival Le Placard, Milan
Mar 06 – Apt au 21e et. de la tour Boucry, Paris
Mar 06 – Villa Mais D’Ici, Auberviliers (Paris)

Descritpion

Link is a ludic interactive artwork entwining physical and virtual experiences. It consists of three parts: the Creation Desk, the Playground and the Eden of the Avatars.
 
At the Creation Desk the participant creates an avatar, a visual representation of himself, modeling it with the voice. The sample is recorded and will be used as raw material to generate a personal soundscape.
 
In the Playground, a maximum of three people can play together through (and with) their avatars. Modulating their respective distances the avatars will link and unlink themselves, generating a personal soundscape according to their movements. Everyone can hear others voices.
 
The Eden of the Avatars is an extension of the physical experience. It is a virtual world populated by the avatars of former participants. Here they survive for a limited period of time and, moving as their owners moved, evolve in a virtual dynamic network. The Eden of the Avatars is only visual, the sound experience being personal, subjective and limited to the physical experience.
 
 

Aesthetics of Interactivity

Link – Interactive Experience

The experience is immersive but social and unbounded. Participants are immersed in the light of the projection of their avatars which follow them like shadows and interact with their movements.
 
Users wear wireless headphones (equipped with a light motion capture device) which allows them to move freely modulating their own soundscape (based on their vocal sample) and to interact with the others sending and receiving sounds particles.
 
The experience can be personal while opened to the external world, audio and visual elements, beside glances and smiles, are exchanged in between participants.

Exhibitions
Portes Ouvertes de l’Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts de Paris.
Enactive 07, Grenoble.

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I took care of the video design starting from Emmanuel Lavergne’s photographies and Lucas Zanotto gently granted us his music piece. The video has been produced by Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini, Valenciennes (France).
 
 

Synopsis
The incursion within matter leads to outline its internal geometrical dance. Tension caused by the magnetic charge of particles compose figures which soon come undone, in a continuous waltz of fusion and fission. The borders are just an illusion, frontiers are made by links.
 
 

Festivals
Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal
IceBox02, Bell-Roberts Cube Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Paysages Electroniques, Lille, France
International Short Film Festival, Lille, France
Experimental Film Tuškanac, Zagreb, Croatia
International Film Festival Carbunari, Baia Mare, Romania. (Jury Awards)
Artronica. Bogotà. Colombia

Ad Occhi Socchiusi

Our eyes half-closed, looking both inside and outside, our perception shifts to an audio-tactile dimension; favoring the awareness of the body, the presence of our selves and the wakefulness of being. Ad occhi socchiusi is an invitation to a certain feeling, to a certain perception of our-selves. Due to its aesthetic system, Ad occhi socchiusi is an experiment on cybernetics as a science of regulation and communication between living beings and machines.
 
The participant soon becomes an “interactor” simply sitting, resting and breathing. He learns to use his body as an instrument that produces the sound that he can hear. In public space the interactive experience is exclusively aural, but the full recording of it (audio and video) can be downloaded at home.
 
The experience leads from the chaotic state to the “birth” of a virtual entity that take over the user’s interaction in creating sounds. This process passes from disorder (chaos) to organized patterns (order), according to the rules of the Game of Life de John Conway. The crucial element in treating the information is the correlation of the cardiac, resonant and chromatic frequencies, according to their consonance or dissonance.
 
The system is retroactive and generative, and the notion of cycle is deep-rooted within it. This cycle is sensitive to the past: every audiovisual instance is the result of the system’s condition at the time of the experience as well as previous states.

Shot by Cyril Teste

The journalistic image fill the news on television and paper. This redundant images, once picked up by the brain, lurks somewhere between consciousness and subconscious, between memory and experience. Their realness loses its meaning to attain a properpictorial dimension.
 
As layers laid upon by the time, the images left by the everyday life shuffle in an informational magma, that take after the notion of non-image. Everything is in it but nothing is distinguishable.
 
The collective memory, explored in its depth, swing between the swarming of composed and decomposed forms, the slow dissolution and the perceivable emergence of a form over the others. The boiling informational liquid dissolves into shapeless mental images.
 
 
Critics
« Shot clings to the anatomy and the radiography of the social body though photography, the black box of the last fifty years. Endlessly repeated, the cut and paste deflects the signals emitted by the half-length photographed presenter. A poetic scenic installation intended to disenchant of media hypnosis, to bring to life again the very last images of the history. »
Libération, 23rd July 2004