AlgoMech symposium - Alejandra Pérez Núñez - Yeast

Full info: http://algomech.com/2016/artists/alexandra-perez-nunes/

Yeast is an audiovisual bio noise performance of yeast reactions and algorithmic systems Yeast reactions are considered biological responses to systems, in example geophysical systems. They are considered embodied responses and alternate ways of knowing. They perform in a sense an onto-epistemological approach, because the way of knowing is contained or altered by the ontologies, thus the way of knowing is altered by the way of being. The objective of the piece is to render an aesthetic response, an economy of the hallucinatory, permanent doubt, diffraction, strangeness through the noise ecology assembled from the reactions in yeast cultures on stage. This heterogeneous approach is deemed necessary to formulate a complex response to the problem which undertakes the effort of apprehending ”space as a unitary phenomena” (Lefebvre 1991, p 4,20-21,28) and thus of considering a “360 degree” conception of the hidden and imperceptible producing space. Yeast are considered in relation to a sensing ecology able to respond to other cycles in ”the environment”. From another perspective, there is no outside from the production of space as there is no outside of the relations of materiality (Barad 2007), thus there is no environment but only phenomena.

Part of an arts-research day symposium, with talks on the theme of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement, chaired by Thor Magnusson and Chris Kiefer from University of Sussex's Experimental Music Technology Lab, and taking place in the Sheffield Institute of Arts.

Film by Jon Harrison

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