Diastrophisms
- Diastrophisms
Diastrophisms is a sound installation with a modular system that sends images through rhythmic patterns. It is built on a set of debris from the Alto Río building that was destroyed by the 27F earthquake in 2010 in Chile. With Diastrophisms we were looking for a poetical, critical and political crossing between technology and matter, in order to raise questions about the relationship between human beings and nature, and to consider the construction of memory in a community by questioning the notion of monument, as well as to imagine new forms of communication in times of crisis. This piece has a full paper in the Art Papers section on page 356 of this journal.
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Diastrophisms, detail of devices actuating the debris of Alto Rio building, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo Cerrillos, Chile, 2017. (© and Photo: Yasushi Sakai)
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Supplementary Material
You are the Ocean: Vimeo video link: https://vimeo.com/232792092
"Reconstructing “Sketchpad” and the “Coons Patch”: Toward an Archaeology of CAD": Interactive Software Reconstructions of the 'Coons Patch' and 'Sketchpad': https://vimeo.com/243439941
nicolelh@media.mit.edu
thomassl@mit.edu
yasushis@media.mit.edu
Nicole L'Huillier (Chile), Thomas Sanchez Lengeling (Mexico) and Yasushi Sakai (Japan) are researchers, artists, students, architects, musicians, technologists and scientists. They are currently based at the MIT Media Lab, Boston, MA, where their work scales from creating micro-chip universes to sentient megastructures, converting tangible artifacts to intangible experiences, and creating synthesized reality tools to speculative futuring actions.
