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Three channel audio-visual installation with haptic interface 




Proxima, a machine learning system, reacts to human visitors through camera detection and processes sound and visuals. It generates non-linear narratives in pulsating vibrant utterances, creating a poetic space that reimagines body~world relations in tension with our world’s surveillance mechanisms. Whilst the AI ensures the performativity of the installation, visitors are invited to place a custom made tactile transducer and explore it on their own bodies. The work uses vibration to activate somatic memory, expanding the sense of ‘listening’ through touch and being in ‘touch’.

This intimate encounter between the Self and machine, relates surveillance and its impact in the coding of who we are and continuously become. The use of factual data for control and capital development contributes to an apparatus that feeds into our fear of the unknown (…Who is writing who in the end?). Thus, the work seeks to destabilize these vicious cycles, aligning with a regenerative direction in resonance with the Self and its processes, rather than towards a techno fetishised future.




Credits
Concept and direction: Angelo Custódio
Live electronics and programming: Tatiana Rosa
Image direction and editing: Pedro Matias
Text and voice: Angelo Custódio
Technical support: Michele Abolaffio
Design development and wearables: Arthur Guilleminot




Proximity Music: Deep in Afterthought, Rewire Festival 22, The Hague, NL
Supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Stichting Stokroos and Stroom Den Haag

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Prospects 22 – Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Supported by Mondriaan Fonds
(2022)

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