During the first week of September, MolinoLab took part in this year’s edition of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, one of the world’s leading festivals of art, technology and society.
As part of the Biophony collective, which emerged from the artistic residency held at MolinoLab thanks to the Culture Moves Europe programme, Salomé Méndez and Fernando Fernández, based in Sancti-Spíritus, Salamanca, showed several interactive audiovisual installations alongside other artists. All of them reflect on the complexity of other living non-human, non-animal organisms, and on the exploration of collaborative creation between species.
This exploration is also at the heart of the virtual reality experience Sinfonía Biótica, https://sinfoniabiotica.xyz, which Fernando Fernández and his team are developing at MolinoLab.
One of the installations is made up of a plant connected to electrodes that measure the microfluctuations in its electric field. These data are analysed and turned into sound and visual stimuli. Besides creating its own soundtrack, the plant modifies the virtual space of a previously digitised real environment.
Another of the installations, created by Lesia Kvitka and Cameron J Liang, is made up of six audiovisual portraits of wild plants from the surroundings of the MolinoLab artistic space. The electrical impulses generated by those plants produce distortions and visual changes in their portraits. Cameron J Liang has used the same information to generate the soundtrack of each of those plants.
In the same room it was also possible to watch the documentary summary of the artistic residency, made by Lesia Kvitka
