Artist Statement
Keywords: Light, Sound, Installation, Interaction, Biomedical signals, Audio-visual, Immersive Environment, ECG sensor.
REFLEXION In (out of) Sync is a reactive installation consisting of electroluminescent (EL) wire, in which visitors are encouraged to create together a light environment. In this manner two visitors are invited to sit next to each other surrounded by a light structure made of EL wire steered by their heartbeat via a finger pulse sensor. The purpose of this project is on the one hand to make visible unconscious internal reactions that are produced in the subject in a simple situation such as sitting next to another human being; on the other hand the project serves the purpose of inviting people to be aware of their inner-self and of the other, as well as of their environment. The installation is currently a work-inprogress.
- Claudia Robles-Angel (Cologne, Germany) is a new media and audiovisual artist. Her work and research cover different aspects of visual and sound art, which extend from audiovisual fixed-media compositions to performances and installations interacting with biomedical signals. She has been artist-in-residence in several outstanding institutions, for example at ZKM (Karlsruhe, DE), KHM (Cologne, DE) and at the ICST-ZHdK in Zurich, CH. Her work is constantly featured in not only media and soundbased festivals/conferences but also in group and solo exhibitions around the globe, for example, the ZKM Center Karlsruhe; KIBLA Centre Maribor, Bauhaus Museum Berlin, ICMC Copenhagen, Montréal and Utrecht; Festival de la Imagen Manizales, DRHA2010 Sensual Technologies London; SIGGRAPH Asia Yokohama; Re-New Festival Copenhagen; New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME Oslo; ISEA2011, ISEA2017 and ISEA2018 (Istanbul, Manizales and Durban), 55th Venice Biennale, Audio Art Festival Cracow, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center NYC, MAC Bogotá, MADATAC Madrid, ADAF Athens, Heroines of Sound Berlin and Experimental Intermedia NYC. claudearobles.de
With special thanks to Innogy Foundation and ON Neue Musik Köln for their support in developing this project.
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