Paula Pin & Maria Mitsopoulou (Transnoise) + Wendy Ann Mansilla
1 October 2011 – 11 October 2011
Audiovisual performer interested in new forms of technological and social interaction, collaborates in different events and workshops. His participation in the interactive workshops (MediaLab-Prado Madrid) and Hangar, the stay at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and the collaboration in the LABoral Summer Camp, Gijon during 2008 increase contact with the Open Source communities and their interest in DIY and DIT philosophies. In 2010 he spent a stay at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he collaborated with initiatives such as Ruidocracia (experimental Live Video and Noise sessions) and continued with projects that address issues of identity, based on relationships with the intimate-public body and mechanical-electronic interactions.
He creates interactive kinetic sculptures, immersive environments, audiovisual installations, performance and direct action. Disciplines in which the body and space dissolve into an elastic mesh, this almost infinite elasticity opens new channels through which to communicate desires. Thus, the desire to use one’s own expanded body as a way of interacting with the world is the central axis of his work. This body in contact with its nature and in connection/disconnection with technology expands through visual, sound and mechanical noise, enabling the opening of the natural noise of our organism as a generator of multiple dialogues and new forms of relationship with the environment, from the purely corporal to the political. The body becomes an electronic interface or instrument on which to arrange a series of recycled circuits, which invite interaction through the act of touching. The body is expanded as an interface, like an open source body. A recycled collective body, a technological organism.
Academic training: Graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, Assistant Industrial Design Technician and Higher Image Technician.
Collaborations and Workshops: ICT trainer at Obra Social la Caixa. Computer science and video editing. Coordinator and teacher of the artistic teaching department at the Les Corts academy. During 2008-2009 she researches AE augmented and virtual reality presenting with Wendy Ann Mansilla a tutorial at the University of Lübeck. She currently focuses her work on the development of various workshops for young people that involve the use of low tech technologies and develops various devices that allow the public to interact with audiovisual synthesis.
Performance:
2011: Sound experimentation with Las Casi Casiotone and Graham Bell Tornado, LABoral Gijón; Performance with USB Serial BICT LABoral Art Center; Micro workshop at Summer Camp, LABoral; Ecosex Black Wedding, LABoral; Ecosex Silver Wedding to the Rocks; Pati de les Dones, CCCB Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Spain; LPM, Live Performance Meeting, Rome, Italy.
2010: Dances: two sons and das escutas” no CCSP audiovisual performance, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Audiovisual collaboration in Ruidocracia, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Collaboration in Summer Camp, La LABoral, Gijón
2008-2011: Live video performance, Lempika, Barcelona.
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Maria Mitsopoulou
She focuses her work on body politics, where through documentation and the invention of actions, she creates and captures processes or moments of micropolitics of cultural resistance. He examines the embodied technologies that construct through culture what we call identity and behavior with the intention of creating counter-narratives or narratives that hinder the establishment of a single truth, infiltrating other fragmented views. Taking the body as its object of study, the body that emerged in networks of regulation technologies through processes of performativity, it attempts to use performativity to create other types of knowledge and events that bring it closer to intellectual and emotional satisfaction. He enjoys accidental collaborations and likes to work collectively.
Academic training:He studied Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1998-2003). She has followed courses in plastic arts, performance and interdisciplinary techniques at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Polytechnic University of Valencia (2001-2002). She obtained the Master’s degree in Visual Culture Studies and Projects from the University of Barcelona (2004-2006), as well as the Master’s degree in 3D Animation, Pombeu Fabra University (2007-2008).
Performance:
2011: Karaoke rp, Entzaubert Queer DIY Film Festival, Berlin. Transnoise, Hard Cabaret, Tinta Roja Barcelona context silver wedding. Transnoise, Ecosex Silver Wedding to the Rocks, Pati de les Dones, Center Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona. Transnoise, LPM, Videntity, Live Performance Meeting, Rome, Italy.
2010: The closet. From the private to the public space, with Josep María Martín, III International Meeting Art is Action, Madrid. Can you hear San Sebastián, with Marten Spangberg, Arteleku, San Sebastián (Mugatxoan residence). VJ set Spring, LaptopsRus, meeting & meeting, Matadero, Madrid.
2009: UKI live cinema performance, with Shu Lee Shang, Hangar, Barcelona.
He works in the interdisciplinary field of digital media, art and experimental science. His research interests and artistic productions explore the psychology of visual illusion, synthetic reality, social media, and the aesthetics of failure. She has presented several academic papers at international conferences and festivals, including her master’s thesis on acousmetre for synthetic environments at the Europrix Multimedia Prize 2005. She has been a reviewer of articles academics and exhibitions, and professor of new media theory, creative technologies, and augmented reality. Some of his latest works were presented and exhibited at Piksel Bergen, STRP Technology Festival Eindhoven, ACM Multimedia, Asia Siggraph, Campus Party Brazil, and the Copenhagen Art and Design Factory. She has also won artistic collaboration grants in digital media and contemporary art research. She is currently a PhD candidate at Q2S (Center of Quantifiable Quality of Service at Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU).
Project in residence
Filtered Intimacy
TransnoiseIt is a laboratory of performative and sound acts, where bodies expand like liquid architectures. It is a confusion or fusion on stage of fluids of ideas and amorphous bodies. Our driving body travels from the carnal to the spiritual, from the vulnerable to the power-knowledge and turns its intimacy into a public square, imagining other ways of doing and being. Sex and gender, liquids and circuits travel towards abstraction where they enjoy generating imaginary landscapes. Organic performance aims to eliminate the distance between representation and real life; break the border between fiction and the exercise of documentation.
The result is understood as an amplified environment in which different objects, and subjects, vacate conforming decisions or positions. While we recycle electronic waste we record moments of urban poetry. The sound is generated by home-made circuits. Text, video and narration are combined live, all seasoned with a dose of noise. Noise, like drag, shows through the appropriation of non-musical elements that tone and rhythm are, like gender, simply social constructions.
When light meets the body-circuits, love explodes. We take noise as another element to provoke opening. Two sources of images: prepared loops mixed with video taken in real time, mixing alternative culture products with own representations.
For the moment, the videos we generate are a dialogue between the videos extracted from alternative post-porn productions from the queer movement where we started, plus representations built in situ, at the place of the performance. The immersion of the body has the capacity to activate sound and visual devices, suggesting infiltration into the machine and allowing us to increase the trans-cyborg-hacker fantasy in which multiple entities and subjects break the code, thus the body expands, opening paths to free, anarchic, risky methods.
Transnoise(Paula Pin & Maria Mitsopoulou) and Wendy Ann Mansilla join forces for an artist residency at LABoral to extend the technical and creative exploration of Filtered Intimacy. Filtered Intimacy is a performance that experiences and explores the physical and virtual connection of the body. This relationship between the body and the physical and online scene is carried out through the use of sensors and circuits connected to the skin. Through the physical movements of the bodies, the artists seek to examine the potential of producing synchrony in the activation of digital slaves to generate a concert of noise and harmony. While at the same time, a visual composition that collects new data from a variety of social networking sites is displayed on the screen. The system searches in these sites for dialogues between body performance performing live, technology and the ecosystem; collects and stores on a computer. Every movement and image shown creates a harmony of sound. Filtered Intimacy explores the possibility of using various sound sources based on the live presentation of the physical body and networks that perform live.
Filtered Intimacy explains the state of the body, as it is being filtered online. Through the realization of Filtered Intimacy, the artists interpret cyberspace as the abode of the organisms that are carrying out to understand and achieve the perfect state. There, our bodies are looking for ways to get out of the only reality that faces failure. The moment our bodies enter the intimate lives of others through computers and communication space, we are losing pieces of our flesh.
In electronic space, we are leaving fragments of our bodies behind. We don’t realize that our body’s energies can pass through network cables and affect other entities. Beyond thinking, our body is speaking in the interconnected universe. The body and the universe are inseparable, and in the darkness they are in union, reproducing an infinite amount of light and sound. Continually searching for perfect flows to the point of dysfunction. When the disorder occurs, the landscapes are mixed with abstract images in which flesh and circuits come together.
