[spectre] Today @N.K.: “Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa”, audiovisual installation

[Manuela Benetton]

With apologies for cross-posting

N.K.
Opening Night Nov 5, 2011 19:00-21:00 Nov 6-12 Daily from 14:00-17:00
*“Re:****Sitruuna
ja meduusa”*

*Artists: Merja Nieminen and James Andean*
*“Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa” is an audiovisual installation. *

The installation constructs a ‘live’ dynamic system, comprised of projected
3D graphics and projected sound, creating a virtual environment or
ecosystem which changes and evolves in real-time. It explores the capacity
of the spectator to create relationships – to build worlds – from multiple
sensory information.

The completed work runs live in the Processing and MaxMSP programming
environments. The visuals are constantly being freshly generated by
Processing, and output to projectors in the gallery space; being live, the
work never presents the same scene twice – each and every visual moment is
entirely unique.

Relationships are kept in a delicate balance between clarity and obscurity.
Are visible behaviours triggered and controlled by sound, or do their
behaviours create sound? Are we listening to their actions, or are we
watching them respond to the sounds of their environment? This projected
universe operates on its own laws; familiar, but somehow elusive. These
laws appear to be based in sound, or to emit sound: objects turn; the
projected world turns… while sound events strike, scurry past, or resonate…

*James Andean* is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a
performer and a composer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic
composition and performance, improvisation, sound installation, and sound
recording. He is a founding member of improvisation and new music quartet
The Rank Ensemble and of the sound collective Resonator Helsinki, and one
half of the audiovisual performance art duo Plucié/DesAndes. He has
performed in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Italy and Canada, and his
works have been performed in Finland, Norway, Russia, Portugal, Canada and
China.

*Merja Nieminen* is a Finnish visual artist who currently lives and works
in Helsinki. Her studies include architecture studies in the University of
Technology, Helsinki, and media art studies in Medialab, University of Art
and Design, Helsinki. She works in collaboration with artists from diverse
fields including electro acoustic rhytm music, classical music, dance and
new circus. Current projects include collaborations with Tuomas Norvio,
James Andean, Defunensamble, Mikko Kallinen Company, Circo Aereo and Meidän
Orkesteri. Her works include abstract animations for audio visual
performances and installations.


N.K.

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