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Interdisciplinary media artist working across documentary, installation, sound, performance, and participatory media. 

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By McKinley Argyle, William Bender, Luca Buongiorno Nardelli

Description.

Anthropocene explores unity through the disjunction and unification of elements. Taking the form of a multi-media, audio-visual, interactive piece, common themes of breath, rhythm, dynamic, static, and texture are explored within audio-visual space. Intended for 5 screens and spatialized audio, the core content explores Nature, Water, Industry, and Energy as seen through field recordings. What begins as disconnected, segmented, and individualized space, becomes unified through a process of blending these thematic elements across the audio-visual space. One screen fields a prompt instructing the audience to internalize images and sounds in the space, de-reifying the content, then asks them to reflect these imagined sounds, signifying an embodied unification with the piece.  
As a cognitive meditative experience of reharmonization, these themes act as hinges between spacetime, unified, unfolded, and enforced through the breath and concentration of the audience. The performers are leading a guided meditation through their instruments, interpreting the images and sounds in real time, just like the audience.

Full Performance. 

Stills. 

Adaptation for the New Media Contemporary - Free Standing Gallery Installation

Video Sample. 

snake1.mov
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