sibilla of lozio
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Athanasios Alexopoulos
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- sibilla of Lozio -
first of all I create “her memory”, visual content consisting of macro/micro photo/video of the zone, Lozio, Italy. Natural forms that the human eye can’t see easily.
Next with Vito, expert in computer code, we create “her brain”. An online computer machine and the code.
At the end we connect it with “her heart”, earthquakes data from a local seismograph, that changes the exposure of the video live.
Now, this code choose randomly 1 image and 1 video, the image remains still but the video’s exposure change accordingly to the data of the seismograph. (lighter or darker)
An online stream video art work that goes and generate images and a narration until the earth moves.
The project is based indeed on the data transmitted by a seismograph in the area and an algorithm elaborates in real time a continuous and infinite connections between the different materials on the basis of the imperceptible - but always present - movements of the ground. Thus a new artistic and contemporary prophecies born, launched in real time by a modern digital Sybil. In this way, technology helps the place to manifests itself: its nature and its primordial relationships with human beings are showed through a layering of images and meanings capable of expressing the ultimate essence of the place, enclosed in alienating and somehow disturbing compositions, which are charged with that prophetic message of eternal creation. In the end, Lozio's nature and its Sybil will give life to memories and stories as long as the earth will move, continuing to narrate and to tell itself through its small and evocative details.
Realised for falia art residency, Lozio, Italy
(https://falia-air.com/en/home-eng/)
Curator - Alice Vangelisti
Scientific collaborator - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Code by - Vito Drugo Degirolamo and Vito Custodero
CONCEPT
athanasios aléxo - https://www.athanasiosalexo.com/