ART WORKS
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EROSION
AV Installation and AV Show
2024… (work in progress)
Keywords: New Media Art / Creative Coding / Extractivism / Particle Systems / Artificial-organic
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Video render preview - Trailer
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Erosion is an audiovisual work in the formats of Installation and AV Live Show, in which I investigate the construction and destruction of virtual forms that allude to organic creatures, landscapes and inert objects. It is an audiovisual plastic research in which I think about the transformations that territories undergo in the cycles of organic life and death, how the constitution of the landscape depends on these cycles and how the current consumption-survival model of humanity intervenes in these transformations.
I am developing the work entirely from programming, programming particle systems that allow me to generate this type of forms that transit between the organic and the inorganic. Beyond the plasticity that is possible through this medium, I find it interesting to think of this work made entirely in digital-media as a contradiction, since in some way it exists thanks to the extractivist model of which it speaks: it depends on the technology developed based on mining, excessive consumption of water resources and the technology that is at the center of this model and has been normalized as an everyday tool in humanity.
METASTASIS III: Interactions (V2024)
Site-Specific Installation and Performance
2024
Keywords: Bioart / Generative Art / Programming / Electronics / New Media Performance
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Photo: Estudio Gheada, Green Sormena, 2024
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Photo: Estudio Gheada, Green Sormena, 2024
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Photo: Estudio Gheada, Green Sormena, 2024
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Short Video Recorded at Green Sormena 2024
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Photo: Estudio Gheada, Green Sormena, 2024
Third work of Metastasis series (re-version 2024). Installation and Performance with incubation of vegetal biological material based on the questions: How to interact with imperceptible organisms? What is the relationship between hygiene and extermination?
In its first version I have collected the biological material day by day, taking organic-garbage from what I cooked in the artistic residence (The Willows Nest, Berlin) to re-signify the everydayness of waste, or to think (perhaps) of another possible link with everyday waste. For later versions I compose the work with organic waste collected from different sites, mainly kitchens, both open to the public and private.
I place each sample in a petri dish to evaluate its decomposition, the samples are monitored in real time using a digital microscope used as an instrument of the performer. The performance takes place with the image of the microscope being translated into data that is used to generate/manipulate image, sound and lights in real time. It is thus an immersive performance, in which for a few minutes people are surrounded by an environment that usually goes unnoticed, where the invisible universe of the microscopic becomes ephemerally our habitable and perceptible space.
I believe that if we relate to waste from other perspectives, if we look at the living within the contaminated, if we interact with what goes unnoticed or generates rejection; we can approach new ethics and more affectionate political relationships with our environment. Starting from our daily life we can take the first step to give visibility, that step is to see, in/with all the senses.
OTHERS
Live AV Show
2023 / 2024
Keywords: Bioart / Geoart / Electronic Music / Sound Synthesis / Visual Coding / Shaders / Microscopy
Lenght: 45'
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MUTEK Montreal 2023 - Ph: Nina Gibelin Souchon
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MUTEK Montreal 2023 - Ph: Nina Gibelin Souchon
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Efe Ce Ele performing Others at Mutek Barcelona 2024
Camera and Video Edit: Luiza Faga
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Efe Ce Ele performing Others at Mutek Montreal 2023
Video Recording by Mutek Festival
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Video Teaser of Others
Others is an Audiovisual Live Show in which I create immersive, real-time environments where sound and imagery evolve in a constant state of transformation, ranging from figurative aliens to abstract figures and lights. The audience is immersed in an impactful set spanning from ambient sounds to experimental dance music. The performance explores the intersection of living creatures and virtual synthetic entities, showcasing their coexistence in a poetic and speculative way of view, alluding to sensitivity and body experience beyond speech and rationality.
This project is also connected to the research on live cinema and abstract animation, in which I explore possible ways to create visual music and live visual music through generative processes related to organic matter and biological (micro/macro) creatures.
BIOSYNTHESIS: Flowers
Live AV Show
2022 / 2023
Keywords: Bioart / Electronic Music / Sound Synthesis / Visual Coding / Shaders / Microscopy
lenght: 50'
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Efe Ce Ele performing Flowers at Mutek Barcelona
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(Excerpt) Efe Ce Ele performing Flowers at SPAM - Centro Cultural Recoleta Buenos Aires
Camera: SPAM Arts
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(Excerpt LQ) Efe Ce Ele performing Flowers at SPAM - Centro Cultural Recoleta Buenos Aires
Camera: Gabriela Aparici
Work developed by collecting and recording biological matter, particularly flowers, from which I generate immersive audiovisual "environments". The material collected is recorded using a digital microscope and then processed to create audiovisual elements by translating its shape, color and size into data. When the biomaterial is turned into data I use it as a source to generate sounds and images that are composed to interact with generative image codes and sound-synthesizers, thus becoming a biosynthetic sound and visual work.
This project is also connected to the research on live cinema and abstract animation, in which I explore possible ways to create visual music and live visual music through generative processes related to organic matter and biological (micro/macro) creatures.
REST OF LIFE
Videoclip
2022
Keywords: Electronic Music / Sound Synthesis / Visual Coding / Shaders
Lenght: 4'5''
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Rest Of Life - Full Videoclip
“Rest of Life” is an audiovisual self-portrait in videoclip format that aims to be a metaphor of survival, the homonymous music was composed as part of my new works after my father passed away, it is a work conceived as a reflection and catharsis on the value and uncertainty of life.
Record label: STRUCTURED (ESP)
Album (music): VV.AA D-STRCTRD
Crater
Live Audiovisual Show
2021
Keywords: Geology / Cartography / Electronic Music / Sound Synthesis / Visual Coding / Satellite Images
Lenght: 45'
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Efe Ce Ele Performing at Mutek Hybrid - Buenos Aires, Montreal, 2021
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Efe Ce Ele Performing at Mutek Hybrid - Buenos Aires, Montreal, 2021
Work conceived as a metaphor for the virtual construction of territories, physical spaces that are deconstructed from the politics and arbitrariness of thought. It is made from the registration and resignification of satellite and topographic images that are taken as input, processed and put into dialogue with digital resources to generate electronically mediated audiovisual landscapes in real time.
Biosynthetic Borders
Live Audiovisual Show
2020 - 2022
Keywords: Bioart / Electronic Music / Sound Synthesis / Visual Coding / Shaders / Microscopy
Lenght: 50'
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Efe Ce Ele Performing at Mutek Hybrid - Buenos Aires, Barcelona, 2020
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Efe Ce Ele Performing at Mutek Hybrid - Buenos Aires, Montreal, 2020
Efe Ce Ele Performing at Mutek Hybrid - Buenos Aires, Montreal, 2020
Work developed by collecting and recording microbiological matter, from which immersive audiovisual environments are generated. The material collected is processed after digitally capturing it with a microscope and is used to create audiovisual elements, these elements are composed and interact with algorithmic and sono-synthetic resources, thus becoming a biosynthetic sound and visual work.
This project is also connected to the research on live cinema and abstract animation, in which I explore possible ways to create visual music and live visual music through generative processes related to organic matter and biological (micro/macro) creatures.
METASTASIS III: Interactions
Site-Specific Installation and Performance
2019
Keywords: Bioart / Generative Art / Programming / Electronics / New Media Performance
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Photo taken at The Willows Nest Residency, Berlin 2019
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Photo taken at The Willows Nest Residency, Berlin 2019
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Photo taken at The Willows Nest Residency, Berlin 2019
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Photo taken at The Willows Nest Residency, Berlin 2019
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Photo taken at The Willows Nest Residency, Berlin 2019
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Third work of Metastasis series (re-version 2024). Installation and Performance with incubation of vegetal biological material based on the questions: How to interact with imperceptible organisms? What is the relationship between hygiene and extermination?
In its first version I have collected the biological material day by day, taking organic-garbage from what I cooked in the artistic residence (The Willows Nest, Berlin) to re-signify the everydayness of waste, or to think (perhaps) of another possible link with everyday waste. For later versions I compose the work with organic waste collected from different sites, mainly kitchens, both open to the public and private.
I place each sample in a petri dish to evaluate its decomposition, the samples are monitored in real time using a digital microscope used as an instrument of the performer. The performance takes place with the image of the microscope being translated into data that is used to generate/manipulate image, sound and lights in real time. It is thus an immersive performance, in which for a few minutes people are surrounded by an environment that usually goes unnoticed, where the invisible universe of the microscopic becomes ephemerally our habitable and perceptible space.
I believe that if we relate to waste from other perspectives, if we look at the living within the contaminated, if we interact with what goes unnoticed or generates rejection; we can approach new ethics and more affectionate political relationships with our environment. Starting from our daily life we can take the first step to give visibility, that step is to see, in/with all the senses.
This work was a part of my Master Thesis in Technology and Aesthetics of the Electronic Arts (National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
Biosynthetic Borders
Robotic Sculpture / Installation
2017 - 2019
Keywords: Electronics / Robotics / Biology / Interactivity / Abjection / Embodiment / Programming
w:70cm, h: 160cm, d:40cm; 2ch audio
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Photo: Gabriela Aparici 2018
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Photo: Gabriela Aparici 2018
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Video Recording of the Sculpture
Camera: Gabriela Aparici
"i'm a real child!" Pinoccio.
In-Vitro is a work that integrates biology and robotics, in which various techniques and disciplines are fused as metaphorical motors on the creation of bodies. It is an installation that is born from an hybrid investigation (theoretical, aesthetic, plastic) in which I look into the possibilities of contemporary art as an actor in philosophical discussions such as biopower, the ways of inhabiting the body, the gestation of it and its normalization / standardization.
It is a robotic sculpture that projects an audiovisual space, in which sounds and images are products of the electromechanical movements of the android and the microorganisms that compose it. The movement is the product of the sensing of CO2 (carbon dioxide) generated by the microorganisms that inhabit the android's tissue, whose values excite programmed modules in the brain-microcontroller of the robot in question. In turn, these movements and frictions are electronically amplified to generate an immersive sound space.
This installation/sculpture is a synthetic product between art, science, philosophy and technology, which ultimately alludes to the idea of life.
This work was a part of my Master Thesis in Technology and Aesthetics of the Electronic Arts (National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
Elevación
Sculpture / Installation
2017 - 2019
Keywords: Bovine muscle tissue / Acrylic / Presses / Thread / Gauze / Spot lights
w:150cm, h: 250cm, d:40cm; 2ch audio
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Photo: Efe Ce Ele + Jorge Haro at Palermo University Studios
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Photo: Efe Ce Ele + Jorge Haro at Palermo University Studios
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Photo: Efe Ce Ele + Jorge Haro at Palermo University Studios
Elevación is a continuation of the works in which I investigate the construction of bodies, especially what passes through us in the corporality that we inhabit. I specifically think of this work as a cartography of the body as a territory, a body in which positivist medicine, colonialism and patriarchy (among many other things) limit the possibilities of a territory that tries to expand in its shadows and reflections.
The work is constructed with animal flesh because I am interested in putting on the table the implication that these reflections have on other non-human bodies. Although I think mainly of the human body as a territory, I also think that these corporal territories of humanity interact with non-human bodies and exert the same forces (violence) that they exert on themselves.
It is elevation (Elevación) because it is an imaginary, exalted, idealized and thought-out territoriality. Thinking about the body is what defines it the most; having the possibility of thinking about the body is having the possibility of saying it in words that break it, restrict it, and describe it by force. .
This work was a part of my Master Thesis in Technology and Aesthetics of the Electronic Arts (National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
Metastasis II
Site-specific Installation
2018
Keywords: Bioart / Generative Art / Programming / Stillnes / Sound Art
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Picture illustrative of the computer-vision system ingrated with the flesh
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Photo: Raúl Mandatore, Hospital Rivadavia - Museum Night, Buenos Aires
Curator: Gabriela Aparici
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Video registry of the installation at MUTREF Museum, Buenos Aires
Photo: Raúl Mandatore, Hospital Rivadavia - Museum Night, Buenos Aires
Curator: Gabriela Aparici
Bio-art installation thought from the limits of life, where the decomposition of meat is sensed by a camera and interpreted by an algorithm which is the soul of the audiovisual environment. The different kinds of ecosystems are generative organisms programmed to interact with the main algorithm and to transform their own being as the meat or its interpretation changes.
The main concept of Metastasis Series is migration and colonialism. I use the idea of metastasis as a metaphor, metastasis is the propagation of cells from one organ thru another by the blood system. Especially when we talk about colonialism, this “migration” system with the intention of occupying a territory without the intention of caring for the previous habitants / conditions / environments, is very similar to the metastasis propagation of cells in cancer.
Same as the other works that were part of my thesis Atrocidades, this work is constructed with animal flesh, because I am interested in putting on the table the implication that these reflections have on other non-human bodies. Although I think mainly of the human body as a territory, I also think that these corporal territories of humanity interact with non-human bodies and exert the same forces (violence) that they exert on themselves.
This work was a part of my Master Thesis in Technology and Aesthetics of the Electronic Arts (National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
