Gravity
Terrants
September 26 to October 10
Two series of computational works, terrants (2007) and gravity (2008), based around emergent synthetic processes, generate images in continuous evolution, where the results appear as iterations of autonomous and simple processes on an 'elementary' level, always arriving at unforeseen composite goals.
terra-grav is an exhibition that joins the code in motion with several high-resolution prints of chosen moments from these two emergent and chaotic works, generators of forces that move the continually active elements; alive and crystalized in relations that synthesize images: the continuous flow and the stasis.
In terrants there is no sort of interaction; it's an emergent self- sufficient process where each one of the elements (ants) has simple rules: at each frame moves some steps, changes its direction and actualizes possible interactions with the remaining ants. Unceasingly the white ants and the black ants fill the space with cyclic probabilities, either more white, either more black. They travel and change the paths of a landscape that is remade continually in images of their interactions, mapping an unstable chart full of tensions. gravity is a work created to generate gravitational drawings from movement, in the line of works made for invisible interfaces.
Developed as a reactive graphic process, for painters that draw in the void, using image recognition in the computer, the generated movement in front of the camera casts autonomous particles with gravitical behaviors in relation to invisible poles aligned in the image, accumulating paths of speeds in attraction/repulsion areas, drawing the intensity of forces in their trails.
André Sier, September 2008
Bio
André Sier works as an intermedia artist-programmer. Has a degree in philosophy, having also studied painting, sculpture. Produces objects, involving audio-visual programming languages, that operate as continuous and interactive compositions, dynamic, depending on user input or from the space where the work is installed. Highlights his 'struct' and '747' series, works built with real-time sound and/or image. Has been exhibiting since late nineties in several galleries and festivals, as well as collaborating with plastic artists, performers, musicians. The works focus engaging immersive experiences in virtual abstract spaces, site-specific space time continuum sonic and visual synthesis. Has exhibited his installations and code in Quadrum(pt), Arco(es), Meiac(es), Hospital Júlio de Matos(pt), Agência de Arte Vera Cortês(pt), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia(es), Lugar Comum(pt), Plataforma Revólver(pt), Casa da Música(pt), Untitled Art Space(us), White Box(us), Biennale Puglia(it), Virtual Gallery of Direcção Geral das Artes(pt), project lx2.0 of gallery lisboa20(pt), among others. Teaches audio-visual programming in Aula do Risco(02-06) and Restart(07-) and also orients workshops in several events.
( www.s373.net )
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