Fabricio Lamoncha

Green Screen Garden, 2021 

by Post-Bio-Internet Collective

HNTBS (How Not To Be Seen) #1, 2021

HNTBS (How Not To Be Seen) #2, 2021

PINK IS NOT LIGHT RED, 2020

ASMR for Earthly Survival, 2020 

Videoperformance.

Soft voices and soothing sounds will take the audience on a sensory audiovisual journey through a dystopian near future.

The resulting work is based on the collaborative composition and exploration of intimate fears and tribulations related to current climate change narratives, and represented through the implementation of the experimental ASMR methods presented at the “ASMR for earthly survival” workshop held during the festival.

Don’t forget to wear headphones to experience it at its best!

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OFFLINE GALLERY

The Offline Gallery is a portable platform featuring browser-based art projects. It is composed of a Raspberry Pi, a USB antenna and a battery pack. Therefore the Offline Gallery can be installed (or hided) literally anywhere. Guests can connect to the site-specific artworks within the perimeter of the box using their own mobile devices (smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc.).  

The Offline Gallery deregulates the notions of a classic gallery space and art market stakeholders. This project is a reminder that art is about experiencing together and not about collecting commodities.

LONG DESCRIPTION

The Offline Gallery is a portable platform featuring network-based digital art projects. This virtual gallery space is specifically designed to promote the works of artists that find their space in the intersection of the digital medium and the site-specific installation.

Formal Description

The Offline Gallery is composed of a Raspberry Pi, a USB antenna and a battery pack. Therefore it can be installed (or hided) literally anywhere (forest, public and private buildings, urban and natural environments, over or underwater, etc.). The portability and autonomy of this gallery space allows it to be installed in spaces that are usually not suited (or even allowed) for the promotion of the arts – thought they are usually the source of inspiration for the artist. Finally the motive and the voice of the artist can meet in the same space! The artist and his audience can meet safely and express themselves freely in the “virtual” digital space. Art in public spaces can sometime lead to discussion; on the other hand, Offline Gallery is non-invasive, allowing the people sharing that same physical space but not involved in the event to continue with their lives without even noticing it.

Technical Description

The Offline Gallery offers an open network. The audience connected to this network will automatically receive a pop-up window in their mobile device, such as the captive portal window on public hotspots. The artwork, located inside the box is only with the audience around its perimeter. No App download or registration required, the interaction of the audience with the artwork is completely anonymous, leaves no trace, and no data is collected.  

The collective experience results in a more phenomenological and less disembodied approach to the work of art. Physically putting the audience in the context of the artwork, this project confront the prejudices against digital artworks as promoters of alienating and disembodied experiences. Offline gallery offers the possibility to merge the source of inspiration in the ‘real’, and the artwork of the featured artist in the ‘virtual’.  

Values / Context

This space uses offline network strategies, and therefore aligning with the notions of privacy rights, freedom of speech, as well as open source values. Offline networks are intimate spaces to share information and opinion in a completely safe and even anonymous way if required. Thus why not to use them as art platforms too?

"Cricket Cage", 2018

Plexiglass cricket cage (25x25x50cm), male crickets (only male crickets chirp), macbook air running Max/Msp patch, artificial grass (working as acoustic insulation and human guilt pacifier), cricket food/liquid and other cricket architecture.

please_dont_feed_the_a, 2018 (ongoing).

A DVD collection of the most famous internet animals and artists. 

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Down the Rabbit Hole, 2018

Pet rabbit diet consists almost exclusively of fiber. A correct pet rabbit diet is mainly composed of grass hay – in addition to other fresh fruits and veggies that provide the rabbit with these extra nutrients. Hay-based diet in rabbits promotes healthy teeth and gastrointestinal tract. A correct rabbit diet would then be visible in the shape, colour and odor of its faeces: healthy rabbit pellets are hard, round, and odorless, almost exclusively made of digested fiber. And what do we need to make paper? Exactly! Fiber! Large amounts of very great quality thin fiber are produced every day by pet rabbits. This product, before considered a waste, is now recycled into beautiful, shinny and smooth paper, and be used in combination with the Poo Printer.

Polylogue #1

Polylogue is an interactive installation and a hyper-local message feed. Through an open WIFI network, users in reach of the wireless signal can send text messages with their smartphones, tablets or computers. These messages get printed immediately on a paper roll that runs in-between two translucent, black boxes and are transformed into a material stream of consciousness.

Polylogue offers space for thoughts, questions, claims and nonsense to stand next to each other, to object, to relate: Depending on the time of contribution, messages are being printed above, under or next to each other and seemingly relate, though being fundamentally separated from one another through exactly this very simultaneousness.

Polylogue offers a physical experience analog to apps like Snapchat and thus serves as a antithesis to the internet’s „eternal memory“, as the messages and their relationships only exist situational: commentaries that were up to date just minutes ago become obliterated after having had a run of approximately two meters. Unlike digital messages, which often travel for thousands of kilometers, multiple times around the globe, messages submitted to polylogue travel exactly 2m until reaching their final destination. How long it takes for a message to move across to the other box, where it will be shredded and destroyed is determined by the density of the conversation: The more and the faster visitors contribute to the feed, the more short-lived a single message becomes.

The obliterated content accumulates at the installation’s feet in the form of a paper pile consisting of fragmented conversations.

Watch video-documentation.

Polylogue is an installation by the Design Research Lab/MAZI and was first exhibited at Transmediale 2016 in Berlin.

poo printer dos, 2013.

HYBRID ARTWORK

Wood / Aluminum / Steal / Zebra Finches

A common idiosyncratic habit in all urban birds is their inevitable punk nature to shit over our most precious belongings. The author, in collaboration with a group of captive birds, is able to provide the guidelines to transform this countercultural attitude into a marketable product. For this task a flock of zebra fiches underwent a series of experimentsin order to research their physiological, mechanical and social dynamics. The result is called “Poo Printer”, an analog generative typography printer using the bird droppings as the particle substance that slowly generates the Latin alphabet characters over a large roll of paper.

Physical description of the project

The small birds are housed in a customized cage –similar to any birdcage found in a regular household. The cage provides them with all the standard comforts, but instead of straight perches for the birds to sit on, the cage is equipped with perches bent into letters. The birds feed and, inevitably, excrete while sitting on the letter shaped perches. The faces pile up on the  birdcage floor, covered in a high quality paper roll, following the shape of the perches. Gradually, the birds´ excrements form letters on the floor of the cage.

Concept Description

The behavior of this birds explains how expressivity migrates from the body of the animal to the work of art. This introspective labor could be considered as the purest state of Art. 

The concept of the Poo Printer lies in the fact that the printed letters are not produced by human handwriting, one of most rational cultural techniques. Rather it is ‘printed’ by an irrational activity, subject of nature. The birds participating in this process are surely unaware of the quality of the result they produce. The production process is based on the guidance of their human captor, transforming the birds´ natural urges of feeding and excreting into a meaningful process that cannot be appreciated by nature itself. 

"This work of art can be interpreted as a trenchant and ironic reflection on the myths regarding the brilliant, nearly divine art process in the production of writing symbols. In other words, if an artist creates visual art without thinking but rather by emptying himself, the artist may be considered no more than a bird in a cage." Karen Appel

Art existed before the human existed, and animals are artists as well. Derrida understood animals as artists from other worlds, and thereby representing a privileged subject of analysis.

Awards:

This project has been awarded with the price VIDA 14.0 - Fundación Telefónica.

Selected press:

Wired

we-make-money-not-art

fastcodesign

Selected Exhibitions:

-Ars Electronica, 2012.

-Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, 2013.

pooprinter, 2011.

HYBRID ARTWORK

Prototype.

Video-documentation on the production of the first letter "A".

Awards:

This project has been awarded with the price VIDA 14.0 - Fundación Telefónica.

Selected press:

Wired

we-make-money-not-art

fastcodesign

Selected Exhibitions:

-Ars Electronica, 2012.

-Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, 2013.

Pink Lodge, 2012.

Intervention, photography and multi-channel video installation. 

This work explores concepts of intimacy, auditory architecture, and nature.

 "In the big cities they've set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside, but in the countryside they don't have any patches of big city, ..."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

pink lodge 1

digital narcism,  2012.

Video installation. 

The alienating result of a hybrid, natural and digital, aesthetic are the medium chosen to rethink the implications of the human eye and consequent brain functions for de-codification of light as just another media to interpret nature to our own will. Inspired by artists like Bill Viola, this video is a window to the modern digital Narcissus.