ART AND OBSOLESCENCE PODCAST Features Alumni Debora Bernagozzi

Episode 051 Debora Bernagozzi

Show Notes
This week on the show we’re visiting with Signal Culture director and co-founder Debora Bernagozzi. In our chat we delve deeply into the niche and history-rich dimension of video art practice where the video signal itself is deconstructed and the flow of electricity becomes a medium that is synthesized, manipulated, and performed by the artist in real-time. We’ll hear all about the incredible work that Signal Culture is doing to collect, preserve, build, and restore incredibly rare and sometimes one-of-a-kind electronic instruments and tools made by and for artists, and the three-pronged residency program that they provide for researchers, tool builders, and artists. Tune in to hear Debora’s story, and to hear some very exciting news about the future for Signal Culture!

Links from the conversation with Debora
> https://signalculture.betterworld.org/campaigns/signal-culture-colorado-launch> https://signalculture.org
> https://vimeo.com/signalculture
> https://www.instagram.com/signalculture/
> https://twitter.com/SignalCulture

PEDESIS Michael Masaru Flora

Pedesis Exhibition Poster Michael Masaru Flora, 05.01/05.04, Robert Turner Gallery
Pedesis Exhibition Poster Michael Masaru Flora, 05.01/05.04, Robert Turner Gallery

Pedesis i s a dynamic light and sound installation designed i n response to i ts surrounding environment. Utilizing semi-autonomous computer-controlled, multi-channel lighting and sound technologies the luminescent and sonic materials actively shape the exhibition space, and, in turn the exhibition space shapes the luminescent and sonic materials.

In staging the project, the audience become active participants in their own and i n each other’s experience. Moving throughout the space, the participants color, shadow, resonate, reflect, and refract, changing the very environment they are encountering. Ultimately, the work creates a continually renewing sensorial experience that i s the culmination of light, sound, space, and human activity.

Parasomatic Isabella Uliasz

Parasomatic Exhibition Poster, Isabella Uliasz, April 10-13, 2021, Robert C. Turner Gallery
Parasomatic Exhibition Poster, Isabella Uliasz, April 10-13, 2021, Robert C. Turner Gallery

My thesis work examines how the filters that we look through to see the world — a window, a mirror, a computer screen, the human eye— impact our perceptions of the world and of ourselves as viewers and occupants of it. The exhibition features a body of work titled Parasomatic. With a focus on dissolving false dichotomies that narrow the scope of human consciousness, I engage various self-imaging techniques to expand on conceptions of what might be considered part of the body. The show comprises iterative performances which situate the human corporeal form as an infrastructure for navigating complex relationships and theories. In these performances, I use my body to explore the mechanics and phenomena of light, and reflexively account for energetic impact on the body and perception.

Parasomatic is a word I came up with. It is a mode of embodiment which moves the subject beyond the immediacy of the physical, redefining the self as both its living body and its energetic exchanges. Applied to the reflexive self, parasomatism is an abnormalization, reference, expansion, and dissolution of the body as a fixed interiority. It is the body as a locality both inside of and beyond itself. This work does not address fantasies of an altered physical presence in the immediate sense, but reveals physical presence to be tenuous, nervous, and circumstantial. Parasomatism refers to a physical and energetic state which the body occupies in relation to its conditions, describing the body itself as well as the conditions that materialize the body.

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