Foto.sin.tesis

After several experiences acquired in the use of sensors of different nature, the creators of this piece we have observed that the optic mice of the computer are sensitive to diverse sources of light, such as, solar, laser, infrared, electric, etc.  This sensibility of the reader of the mouse is translated in spasmodic movements of the cursor, visible on the screen; this thanks to that any form of light that can cross the field of the own light of the reader of the mouse, is capable of altering the behavior of the cursor.  Light against light, doing that an optic mouse can function like a sensor of light.  

On this behavior and the reflection occurred of it is based this work:  A multimedia installation where is possible to dispense with the human interface (direct handling) since this piece functions articulated by the light, in this case, solar.  

As we know, the leader of the mouse is the indicator and coach of objects on the screen of a computer.  They based on this form so relative to work with the computers, we have developed a formally artistic, specific programming, that is capable of unchaining behaviors such as sound, images as well as to give orders to an operating system only with the movement of the cursor (way roll-over) to represent and to develop multiple processes, without requiring that a person he manipulate he plots it.  

This project, therefore, is a first stadium of artificial life.  Project presented in the Festival of Art and Science, Symbiosis, Zone of Contact (2005).  

 INSTALLATION-INTERFACE

The work has taken as the protagonist a cybernetic plant; a composed hybrid for fifty mice of done computer of plaster of Paris, accompanied by other three optic mice connected to so many more computers.  

Each optic mouse is arranged toward the sun, on a base, its optical light looks to the sun.  This crossing of lights does that the optical light react like a scanner and in this way "reading" to the sun, the cursor of the mouse espresso movements of unforeseeable paths, the ones that can be visualized on the screens of their respective computers.  At the same time, each computer possesses a program created for this work.  Said program, of audiovisual character", permits that the movements of the cursors unchain a series of behaviors and orders on a system that translates them in sonorous and graphic elements.  

Photo. without. thesis is a work based on a simple technological language and accessible, without I engage, is structured to put in evidence the complex processes in relation to the natural life and the machines; a first stadium of artificial life where the spectators are found set against a computer that carries out processes without the human intervention.  

REFLECTION:  The relation of the man and the machine disappears in this installation.  In this work, the machine been nourished of the nature, capturing it and transforming it.  But in what other data are transformed the information that enters for the drives of the nature?  It would be able to feel the nature or plots it nostalgia of the artist?  More than one nature exists?  This installation hybridizes plant us the life in relation to the new technologies, man postmoderno and the nature. 

AUTHORS

Sara Malinarich
Manuel Terán

URL

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PRENSA

http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pIdNoticia=316988&pIdSeccion=46&pNumEjemplar=995
http://www.ajimez.com/exposici.on/Simbiosis.htm
http://www.escaner.cl/escaner76/enlaces.html

http://www.heterogenesis.com/Informacion/Simbiosis/Symbiosis.htm

EXHIBITION

Simbiosis Festival Internacional . Art and Cience. Luarca 2005. Asturias, Spain.