Gestures and spoken words are found and captured in between streamed virtual and physical microelectronic lab spaces, encoded by the artist into visual and textual poetry with post-VR vibes.

In virtual worlds we are used to bundling with floating limbs to get some bodily awareness. These alienated blue hands are guiding us into other domains. Human gestures are familiar, still rather mechanical in symbiosis with machines.

Recordings are collected during a virtual visit in ENASThe Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems laboratories. Selected artists were working together with individual artistic-scientific projects in workshops during two months.

Texts are encoded from the oral explanations while having the tour in labs with deficiency of deep understanding about inter-atomic interactions and quantum mechanical properties.

This project and exhibition rebuts myths of artistic and scientific practices by finding the shared interests. The work is also examining the chroma key compositing in reversed way.

Substrates (2021)

Exhibitions / Publications

2021 CCI lab, Ars Electronica Center (AT)
22nd April - 31st May 2021

Substrates was part of the CCI lab exhibition in Ars Electronica Center (AT) presenting results of artistic and scientific collaborative projects based on the visit in ENAS laboratories (DE), organised by Klub Solitaer (DE) and artist Fabricio Lamoncha (ES).

2021 Nokturno, the issue #3 / 2021 (FI)

Substrates was chosen as the cover work of the issue. The works in this issue combined video poetry, nature with art and science. Nokturno is a living archive and the most significant publisher of digital / experimental poetry in Finland.

2023 Titanik Gallery - Arte members' wall (FI)
April, Turku

Substrates was chosen as the artwork of the month and to be on display in the contemporary art space in Turku, Finland.

2023 VideoBardo - Video Poetry Festival (AR)
22nd November - 3rd December 2023, Buenos Aires

Substrates was one of the selected works to be part of the 27th edition of International Video Poetry Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Special thanks to Nomi Sasaki and Iosune Sarasate Azcona.