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Alessandro Capozzo
and Katja Noppes
Exuvia
75 inches x 22.5 inches x 25 inches
Art installation, analog-digital mixed media
ARTIST STATEMENT
The collaboration between Alessandro Capozzo and Katja Noppes
is based on the possibilities of merging different experiences in
different media: coding as an expressive medium and painting
as an analogue process. Exuvia is the first result of their method.
The installation suggests a narrative flow, starting from a metamorphosis
– referring to an empty chrysalis (exuvia) as the printed
memory of an absent object – until the spreading wings climax: vital,
delicate and ephemeral as software could be. Interaction between
an analogue medium and a digital one forms a synthesis of the
properties of these two elements, transcending mere software
objectification and material dynamization.
CONTACT
Alessandro Capozzo
Independent Artist
via Monza 51
Cernusco sul Naviglio
20063 Milano, Italy
alessandro@ghostagency.net
www.abstract-codex.net/exuvia/
CO-AUTHOR
Katja Noppes
Independent Artist
via Barrili 31, 20100 Milano, Italy
noppes@tiscali.it
www.katjanoppes.net
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
Exuvia is a mixed-media installation consisting of a semi-transparent
synthetic-material mould of a desktop computer (and its peripherals)
and an lCD display with an epoxy-resin layer mounted on. A
representation of dragonfly wings has been imprinted into the resin
by several analogue processes. Semi-generative software (built
with Processing) is visualized on the prepared lCD display: a set
of attractors “drive” a cellular-automata flow through the wing’s
lines of force.
Custom software: (built with Processing).
Screen: 30 x 36 centimeters. Epoxy resin on lCD display.
Moult: 190 x 57 x 64 centimeters. Synthetic material with
talcum powder.
Various hardware, cables, and iron mongery.
Artworks Art Gallery Electronic Art and Animation Catalog
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