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BMA lab: Compositional process in SYNSPECIES, with Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc
Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc will present the main concepts behind the audiovisual imagery of the Synspecies project. From the idea of confronting objects to the audiovisual form they take, in this masterclass the artists will show the way behind the scenes of their work.
The Synspecies project is inspired by virtual ecologies - unstable morphological spaces that emerge from an interaction of unrelated but coexisting entities with the void. This project emerged after long reflections and conceptual drifts on virtual audiovisual objects, digital art paradigms and narrative exploration. It is on the basis of these dichotomies, dialogues and conflicts that the duo gave rise to the unique audiovisual language that fuels the Synspecies project.
Trainers Synspecies (Elías Merino and Tadej Droljc)
Duration 2h approx.
Target audience Artists, programmers, teachers and other professionals interested in media arts.
Note Masterclass in English.
Support Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. RTCP - Network of Portuguese Theatres and Cinemas
Elías Merino
Composer and sound artist based in Madrid. His practice includes installation, composition and live performance. His work drifts between abstract and algorithmic computer music, unusual contemporary electronica and instrumental music; and explores fields such as time-perspective change, fractured narratives, immersive contemplation, states of disorientation, otherness and strangeness. He is also interested in approaches related to speculative fiction and futures, post-digital materiality, object-oriented composition and post-humanities.
Tadej Droljc
Tadej Droljc is a Slovenian creative programmer who works with the intersection of sound, image and light. In his individual work, Tadej has received the Lumen Prize Student Award, Dennis Smalley scholarship in electroacoustic music and won the Most Promising Video Artist award at Matadac - International Festival of Audio-visual & New Media Art (Madrid). Tadej has presented and exhibited at festivals such as Ars Electronica, Paris Biennale NEMO, L.E.V., Brighton Digital Festival, Semibreve, Sonica Glasgow, Lunchmeat, Node, among others.