Biocity by stanza: 2002
Audio visual relationships between art and science. There are 24 artworks in the series built into a unique software system. They are available as a touch screen edition for exhibition and sale.
Inspired by the idea of the city being a coded system. These paintings map out emergent city spaces. Each one in the series has different behaviours which change the sounds over time or generate and evolve new images, ie shapes and colours. The city experience is a web of connected networks and multi layered threaded paths that condition us to the emotional state of the city space. In essence, the city fabric is a giant multi user multi data sphere. The patterns we make, the forces we weave, are all being networked into retrievable data structures that can be re-imagined and sourced for information. These patterns all disclose new ways of seeing the world.
EXHIBITION
Tate Britain and also Venice Biennale in 2007 SeNef Online Grand Prize Korea: 2002 New Voices Competition Winner Digifest: Canada 2003 Fluxusonline Internet Festival event Sao Paulo Brasil. 2002 Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Mexico 2004 Arte digital. Cuba 2002 ICA. Cybersonica Soundtoys. Internet UK 2004 Fused USA. Sao Paulo Bienale. Brasil Zeppelin Barcelona Spain Artsdepot, London. 2006
Available as a collectors edition software suite with twenty different biocities built in and is for sale on touch screens like the ones below. More info on the touch screens.
Selected digital paintings on canvas have been made as outputs from the software system. These are also available for exhibition.
Images below of Biocities used in performance in Souel at Samsung Media Centre 2004.
Images of Stanza biocity touch screen version in a plynth, shown at Tate Britain and also Venice Biennale. 2007
Image above. Biocity was exhibited in Holland in show called "No - Land" curated by Patricia de Ruijter which was shown in Art City in the NDSM. {9th October2007; for one month.}
Contact: Stanza at sublime.net
Stanza 1997 - 2005.