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Water Bodies at Telluric Vibrations

UCLA Art Sci Center was invited by Ars Electronica to be the Los Angeles Garden and is presenting a series of events under the title of Telluric Vibrations. Using the model of a plant growing both upward into the atmosphere and downward into the soil, simultaneously cultivating the Earth and the Ether – conceptually and physically, grounding technology. Beaming live from the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden in the middle of the city and the molecular imaging labs underground at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

From a Whale's Back

What might it mean to be oceanic? To act in the world from a place of oceanic consciousness? "From a Whale’s Back" is an installation that explores the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales of different species - orcas, humpbacks and minkes - from Antarctica to the northeastern Pacific. It uses video taken from tags used by scientists to monitor whales. From A Whale’s Back explores the latest technology for researching behavioral characteristics of whales, using tags suction-cupped to the back of the whale.

Carry me to the shoreline

The project explores shoreline soundscapes in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil Atlantic coast, in places affected by 2019 vast oil spill affecting local population and wildlife. The artist captured short audios in quite hours in the morning and a series of data-driven sculptures was algorithmic generated using the audio or soundscapes as an input to inform the objects. The sculptures are intended to reassemble trophies humans metaphorically can win for the success in impacting environment.

Water and Light: Ode to a River

As a personal response to waterbodies.org, in the Summer 2017, I started to photograph the Hudson River in Ossining, NY at different times of the day. Now with more than a thousand photographs taken over a period of two and a half years, this visual study took me to an inquiry on how humans perceive water and light frequencies and its implications.
Refracting, reflecting or even absorbing light waves, analogous to the study of Chakras, the Hudson river enhances the visual and physical perception of light promoting the potential for meditation and healing.

Una mujer se balancea (A woman swings)

Argeș River, 45º21'11.2''N 24º38'19.7"E

Painted photograph from the 6-piece series 'Hacia el mar' (Towards the sea). Local women from Romania merge with their environment through the rivers Argeș, Ialomița, Jiu, Olt, Nera and Cerna, all of them tributaries of the old and, somehow mythical, Danube, a river venerated by the old geto-thracian civilizations surrounded by rituals, practices and beliefs, some of them of universal nature and yet connected with ancient cultures.

Una mujer emerge (A woman emerges)

Nera River, 44º54'09.5"N 21º44'45.0"E

Painted photograph from the 6-piece series 'Hacia el mar' (Towards the sea). Local women from Romania merge with their environment through the rivers Argeș, Ialomița, Jiu, Olt, Nera and Cerna, all of them tributaries of the old and, somehow mythical, Danube, a river venerated by the old geto-thracian civilizations surrounded by rituals, practices and beliefs, some of them of universal nature and yet connected with ancient cultures.

Una mujer se disuelve (A woman dissolves)

Cerna River, 44º54'32.0"N 22º25'55.9"E

Painted photograph from the 6-piece series 'Hacia el mar' (Towards the sea). Local women from Romania merge with their environment through the rivers Argeș, Ialomița, Jiu, Olt, Nera and Cerna, all of them tributaries of the old and, somehow mythical, Danube, a river venerated by the old geto-thracian civilizations surrounded by rituals, practices and beliefs, some of them of universal nature and yet connected with ancient cultures.

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