A dialogue between myth and historical heritage through electronic art
Created by Néstor Lizalde in the framework of the Nomadic Frontiers project
Curated by Blanca Pérez Ferrer and Jean Jacques Gay
Genealogy of Fire / Nomadic Frontiers 2021
Intervention at the Royal Monastery of San Juan de la Peña
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2021
“Genealogy of Fire” has involved the intervention of three historical sites where architecture with a strong spiritual charge is preserved as a link between these scenarios, tracing a route that goes from the Monegros Desert in Aragon to crossing the border through the French Pyrenees.
This route takes the form of three Romanesque monasteries: the Royal Monastery of Rueda (Monegros), San Juan de la Peña (Aragonese Pyrenees) and the Abbey of Saint-Vincent de Lucq, in Bearn (French Pyrenees). The project has proposed the intervention of these scenarios through the use of technology understood as “contemporary fire”, building bridges through this new light, in search of the latent memory in these scenarios that hosted other fires in the past.
Technology, nature and spirituality go hand in hand in this experience that proposes artistic practice as a source of knowledge, as a new optic with which to approach these enclaves of memory. The stages have been intervened through the installation of an electronic structure composed of a light matrix controlled by a computer that will launch different light configurations to bathe the stage in light, generating a dialogue of light and shadows with the surroundings to be photographed by means of a high-sensitivity camera.
Through these photographic captures, the scenes were later reconstructed on a computer.
“Genealogy of Fire” has involved the intervention of three historical sites where architecture with a strong spiritual charge is preserved as a link between these scenarios, tracing a route that goes from the Monegros Desert in Aragon to crossing the border through the French Pyrenees.
This route takes the form of three Romanesque monasteries: the Royal Monastery of Rueda (Monegros), San Juan de la Peña (Aragonese Pyrenees) and the Abbey of Saint-Vincent de Lucq, in Bearn (French Pyrenees). The project has proposed the intervention of these scenarios through the use of technology understood as “contemporary fire”, building bridges through this new light, in search of the latent memory in these scenarios that hosted other fires in the past.
Technology, nature and spirituality go hand in hand in this experience that proposes artistic practice as a source of knowledge, as a new optic with which to approach these enclaves of memory. The stages have been intervened through the installation of an electronic structure composed of a light matrix controlled by a computer that will launch different light configurations to bathe the stage in light, generating a dialogue of light and shadows with the surroundings to be photographed by means of a high-sensitivity camera.
Through these photographic captures, the scenes were later reconstructed on a computer.
The mastery of fire is perhaps the first step in the technological history of human civilisation.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus steals fire from the gods to give it to men and thus begins a process that eventually leads to the mastery of technology and scientific knowledge.
Fire is the mythological origin of technology and in our contemporaneity, this fire is electricity riding on the back of electronics and computers. Just as fire plays with wood at the stake, computer code dances in silicon cells building unpredictable patterns. Deserts of transistors are saturated by oceans of electrons in quantum universes. Information, on the back of the electrical snake, intertwines to burst into unpredictable clicks of light. Zeros and ones force movement in the computational cabal. Processes continue each other in search of an ever-defining equilibrium. Order and chaos struggle in an irresolvable process that winds its way through thousands of light-emitting diodes.
A dialogue between myth and historical heritage through electronic art
Created by Néstor Lizalde in the framework of the Nomadic Frontiers project
Curated by Blanca Pérez Ferrer and Jean Jacques Gay
Genealogy of Fire / Nomadic Frontiers 2021
Intervention at the Royal Monastery of San Juan de la Peña
–
2021
“Genealogy of Fire” has involved the intervention of three historical sites where architecture with a strong spiritual charge is preserved as a link between these scenarios, tracing a route that goes from the Monegros Desert in Aragon to crossing the border through the French Pyrenees.
This route takes the form of three Romanesque monasteries: the Royal Monastery of Rueda (Monegros), San Juan de la Peña (Aragonese Pyrenees) and the Abbey of Saint-Vincent de Lucq, in Bearn (French Pyrenees). The project has proposed the intervention of these scenarios through the use of technology understood as “contemporary fire”, building bridges through this new light, in search of the latent memory in these scenarios that hosted other fires in the past.
Technology, nature and spirituality go hand in hand in this experience that proposes artistic practice as a source of knowledge, as a new optic with which to approach these enclaves of memory. The stages have been intervened through the installation of an electronic structure composed of a light matrix controlled by a computer that will launch different light configurations to bathe the stage in light, generating a dialogue of light and shadows with the surroundings to be photographed by means of a high-sensitivity camera.
Through these photographic captures, the scenes were later reconstructed on a computer.
“Genealogy of Fire” has involved the intervention of three historical sites where architecture with a strong spiritual charge is preserved as a link between these scenarios, tracing a route that goes from the Monegros Desert in Aragon to crossing the border through the French Pyrenees.
This route takes the form of three Romanesque monasteries: the Royal Monastery of Rueda (Monegros), San Juan de la Peña (Aragonese Pyrenees) and the Abbey of Saint-Vincent de Lucq, in Bearn (French Pyrenees). The project has proposed the intervention of these scenarios through the use of technology understood as “contemporary fire”, building bridges through this new light, in search of the latent memory in these scenarios that hosted other fires in the past.
Technology, nature and spirituality go hand in hand in this experience that proposes artistic practice as a source of knowledge, as a new optic with which to approach these enclaves of memory. The stages have been intervened through the installation of an electronic structure composed of a light matrix controlled by a computer that will launch different light configurations to bathe the stage in light, generating a dialogue of light and shadows with the surroundings to be photographed by means of a high-sensitivity camera.
Through these photographic captures, the scenes were later reconstructed on a computer.
The mastery of fire is perhaps the first step in the technological history of human civilisation.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus steals fire from the gods to give it to men and thus begins a process that eventually leads to the mastery of technology and scientific knowledge.
Fire is the mythological origin of technology and in our contemporaneity, this fire is electricity riding on the back of electronics and computers. Just as fire plays with wood at the stake, computer code dances in silicon cells building unpredictable patterns. Deserts of transistors are saturated by oceans of electrons in quantum universes. Information, on the back of the electrical snake, intertwines to burst into unpredictable clicks of light. Zeros and ones force movement in the computational cabal. Processes continue each other in search of an ever-defining equilibrium. Order and chaos struggle in an irresolvable process that winds its way through thousands of light-emitting diodes.
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© 2024
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