Connexio: an optical-electronic life for images

CONNEXIO: uma vida óptico eletrônica para as imagens, 1990
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CONNEXIO: uma vida óptico eletrônica para as imagens, 1990
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CONNEXIO: uma vida óptico eletrônica para as imagens, 1990
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The installation comprises two environments.

The first one is darker with light directed towards the inert enlarged photographic images on the wall of the room which is cut in the center by four metallic columns with luminous screens where six video programs "Homo", vt "Muro", vt "Sombras", vt "Frestas", vt "Remains", vt "Fire" alternate in synchrony.

In the background, the second environment is an octagon designed by the projection of light from eight illuminated metallic boxes where the visitor's body experiences mobile situations from the vt "Migrações" and fixed situations from the photographs of frozen frames from the video.

The visitor is placed in a state of immersion in a space inhabited only by electronic images and sounds. In his bodily displacements and memory games, an associative plot places him in a climate between the real and the virtual, between the natural and the artificial, between the optical and the electronic, through sounds and images transformed by post-production effects.

The environments propose the multiplicity and non-linearity of the experience between fixed and moving images for a mobile spectator who, in his displacements and different relationships with the proposed whole, lived in his mind a web of relationships experienced in the space of the room between the images that change on the screens luminous. The images dereference scenes captured by the camera and propose an optical-electronic life for figures in multiple degenerations and regenerations of their constituent cells in electronic microinstants experienced through special electronic editing effects. In the installation, the mutant contrasts with the stillness of frozen frames dialectizing the time of the images, which in turn is relativized by the participant's choices in their locations, stops, apprehension time.