Federico Dopazo
Musician, multimedia artist, essayist.
Oval, the Nut Bird, and the transformation [a long winter dream]
Digital format, Procedural Installation project + Xenofiction.
Generative structures of oval-shaped particles that decompose in response to the sonic variations of the environment. The intention is to create interactive spaces that react to field recordings of migratory birds. These visual architectures are designed to mimic, in their decomposition, aerial formations of flocks of different species during their migration.
Se ven los años en el cielo
35mm + AI: Hybrid installation project.
Work carried out in collaboration with Leandro Garber for the eXe collective. 35mm celluloid, intervened with plastic elements, and then digitally processed using a neural network algorithm (GAN = Generative Adversarial Network). An essay on inter-materialities in audiovisual technology and its plasticity as internalized and reworked identity by contemporary consciousness.
Somsocosmos
Work carried out during the São Joao Residency (in São José do Vale do Rio Preto, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Sound research conducted individually and collectively, focusing on the decolonization of the sonic space and the use of contemporary Latin American tools to narrate new landscapes. These investigations were developed parallel to a series of spatial interventions in an old coffee plantation. The performance “Sinos” and others were developed as part of an exhibition open to the neighboring public of São José do Vale do Rio Preto and participants of the visual residency at Casa Figuera.
Sinos – Cleansing that colonial palm tree + Molienda + Eaterfall
Imagine sounds experience
Work done during Somsocosmos. Collective performances that redefined the space of sensory experiences of thought to promote work towards the development of a new sound consciousness that can be applied as vital praxis. Deconstruct and reconstruct spaces through sound practices that sensory enhance temporal and material distances
Itamaracá:
Essay: Introductory chapter to the ongoing hybrid book “Los idiomas del aire” .
A tentacular essay in written format that collects inquiries about sound as a universal language, organic matter, and the principle of abstraction in sound to reflect upon contemporary issues related to climate change, technology, and identity.
Lentos Árboles azules
Short film shot on 16 mm in 2014. Investigations into an abandoned space among disordered, instinctive bodies.
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