Museu Zer0 presents the installation A Onda, by the Asturians Rotor Studio, which combines the use of salt, so typical of Tavira, with programmed light modules generated by the movement of sea waves shown on video.
It is always interesting with each passing year to be able to see and hear how digital art artists interpret our territory, landscape and nature, using new technologies, and transmit them to the public, who can interact with them, seeing the place they live in or are passing through, and seeing themselves.
The installation proposes a game of associations between the material wealth of the past in the territory in which it is located and the apparently intangible material that constitutes its current economy. Both share a strong relationship with their means of communication, entry and exit of their extractive history: in the past the sea, in the present, the cloud. A cloud of digital connections that connect the area, for example, with many of the visitors who now frequent it to get to know it.
In the middle of these two realities of the city of Tavira's past and present, the artistic proposal coexists in a space that, from its ecclesiastical origins to its current cultural use, has been a participant in this entire transformation of society until now.
This contemplative installation consists of two main parts:
1. A sea of light modules that turn on and off with the same movement that the system, in real time, reads in the pixels of a video in which it is possible to see how a wave hits the coast of the estuary.
2. A table where a mountain of salt is located with which we can interact. The system, in turn, reads the resulting relief and superimposes it on the image of the light wave, interfering and modifying its trajectory.
It is always interesting with each passing year to be able to see and hear how digital art artists interpret our territory, landscape and nature, using new technologies, and transmit them to the public, who can interact with them, seeing the place they live in or are passing through, and seeing themselves.
The installation proposes a game of associations between the material wealth of the past in the territory in which it is located and the apparently intangible material that constitutes its current economy. Both share a strong relationship with their means of communication, entry and exit of their extractive history: in the past the sea, in the present, the cloud. A cloud of digital connections that connect the area, for example, with many of the visitors who now frequent it to get to know it.
In the middle of these two realities of the city of Tavira's past and present, the artistic proposal coexists in a space that, from its ecclesiastical origins to its current cultural use, has been a participant in this entire transformation of society until now.
This contemplative installation consists of two main parts:
1. A sea of light modules that turn on and off with the same movement that the system, in real time, reads in the pixels of a video in which it is possible to see how a wave hits the coast of the estuary.
2. A table where a mountain of salt is located with which we can interact. The system, in turn, reads the resulting relief and superimposes it on the image of the light wave, interfering and modifying its trajectory.
