Cosmic Microwave Backgroung is part of GAM’s artistic projects selected by its 2020 open call, an exhibition process that has been suspended by the closure of cultural spaces and confinement. This audiovisual project, created especially for an on-screen format, will be shown exclusively in an approximately 20 min fragment. Oktopus.tv project uses as an argument for this creation the Nobel Prize winning theory (Penzias and Wilson, 1978) which found an electromagnetic radiation that fills the entire Universe and it’s produced by the continuous echo of the first photons that escaped the Big Bang. This process raised the vibrations causing light to be reflected throughout the space, over and over again, promoting the first forms to emerge.
As cosmic bodies and through dance and movement, we relate to the universe and its life’s cycles. The body in the digital scene appears also as a vibration, which is represented in an imperfect, sometimes indecipherable way. The scenarios are digital environments and therefore, designed through a video game platform engine where a motion capture camera is used. The camera records the image of the body which is then represented by a cloud of 3D pixels in human form. Thus, a pure vibration is exhibited, which is transformed into a micro and macro representation of the Universe.
There will also be a discussion panel with the Oktopus team: Ricardo Tapia Fernandez and Jocelyn Esparza Ponce.
Ricardo Tapia Fernández
Founder of Oktopus.tv
In charge of the research and concept, the design of immersive software and its digital composition. Ricardo is a creative programmer, media artist, crossmedia designer, brand experience creative. He is the founder of Oktopus.tv, a project with more than 15 years of experience developing immersive reality, analyst and researcher on the integration of art with science and the critical use of technology, using movement, light and sound in its interactive experiences, through its purpose “EXPANDING THE VISION OF THE POSSIBLE.
Jocelyn Esparza Ponce
It is part of the research of choreographic design and performance. She uses performance, improvisation, as well as body and alchemical therapies in order to understand the body as a physical, creative and spiritual unit. She unites her two passions, the bodily arts and the plants, in her research to rediscover the role of women in life, which take her to the root and the basics of life.
Original music Tomás Ruiz, RUSSELL
Choreographic design and performance research Jocelyn Esparza Ponce
Animator and level designer Angel Gonzalez
Immersive software design and digital composition Ricardo P. Tapia Fernandez.
9 Sep, 2020
Wed - 20 h
Free streaming through our Youtube channel or Facebook @centrogam.