During the first week of September, MolinoLab participated in this year's Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. One of the world's most important festivals in Art, Technology, and Society.
As part of the Biophony collective, which emerged from the artist residency at MolinoLab thanks to the Culture Moves Europe program, Salomé Méndez and Fernando Fernández, based in Sancti-Spíritus, Salamanca, exhibited several interactive audiovisual installations alongside other artists. All of them reflected on the complexity of other non-human, non-animal living organisms and explored collaborative creation between species.
This exploration is also the central focus of the virtual reality experience, Sinfonía Biótica (Biotics Symphony), https://sinfoniabiotica.xyz, which Fernando Fernández and his team are developing at MolinoLab.
One of the installations consists of a plant connected to electrodes that measure microfluctuations in its electric field. This data is analyzed and converted into sound and visual stimuli. In addition to creating its own soundtrack, the plant modifies the virtual space of a previously digitized real environment.
Another installation, created by Lesia Kvitka and Cameron J Liang, consists of six audiovisual portraits of wild plants from the surroundings of the MolinoLab artistic creation space. The electrical impulses generated by these plants create distortions and visual modifications in their portraits. Cameron J Liang has used this same information to generate the soundtrack for each of these plants.
In addition, a documentary summarizing the artist residency, produced by Lesia Kvitka, was screened in the same room.
