.2024
We don’t exist in the physical world, only our brain exists in the physical world. Our identity is virtual. (Joscha Bach)
“Organisms with a virtual core” is an exhibition of physical sculptures with a virtual nucleus, a series of floating, interconnected phygital organisms composed of various cellular shapes, incipient technological life forms, some containing water vapor, emitting sound-responsive light, and all of them carrying an active digital core. The playful use of natural elements such as water and light is symbolic of the presence or the absence of life, growth and energy. “Organisms with a virtual core” is a series of interactive sculptures, pulsing to the rhythm of the soundscape, primitive cellular and embryonic shapes, forming an open, dynamic system and inviting the visitors to contemplate on the interconnectedness of natural and constructed world, as well as on the notion of identity. The first cell never died, we are the outcome of the multiplication of the first cell.
author: Saint Machine
media: resin, fiberglass, pigments, 3d animation, light, water, sound
collaborators: Sergiu Negulici (3d animation), Micleușanu Mitoș (sounds), Răzvan Levardă (coding)
Artist
Saint Machine
SAINT MACHINE is a Romanian experimental artist and curator, author of immersive multimedia installations that use their observer to function. Her works investigate biological processes, proposing the idea of space seen as a living organism. These are organic sculptures with a digital core, testing the human willingness to cede one’s own physicality in exchange for digital content.
In interacting with these light-emitting hybrid organisms, success in controlling them is always equivalent to willingness to allow oneself to be assimilated.