Magna Mutatio / Pantha Rei

Magna Mutacio is the title of a series of works that explore the transformation of a selected territory over time, specifically the transformation of cities, landscapes, bodies of water and glacial formations. European Space Agency satellite data are used for this analysis. The transformation of the territory is mapped, which, given its size and the long period of observation, could not be perceived from the viewer's perspective. The work thus offers a macro view of the subject.

The Magna Mutatio / Pantha Rei installation explores the unique ecosystem of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. Monitoring through ESA datasets provides a macro-scale view of the site over different time periods. The work builds on previous work by Magna Mutatio / Natron, which tracked colour phenomena occurring on the lake due to the specific composition of the water there. This time, it is not a comprehensive view of the entire body of water, but more detailed shots of different parts of the lake, conveying the unique processes to the viewer in more detail.

The installation uses translucent panel technology - a layer of liquid crystals extracted from display devices through reverse engineering techniques. Here, the white colour appears as transparent, which allows you to look through one panel to another, blending the images, spreading the visual principle, a different view of the observed reality.

Opposite the viewer, at the far end of the installation, stands a source of red light - a colour characteristic of Lake Natron - which permeates the display opposite the recipient as a unifying principle.

The set of six smaller panels is rounded off by the seventh, the largest, presenting a generative video that takes specific Natron phenomena to more abstract levels. A local species of flamingo also acquires its red coloration by consuming red cyanobacteria found only in the extreme conditions of the lake. Using machine learning, the work works with this concept, thinking independently about the form of the flamingo and trying to give it a shape, starting from already created forms and transforming and improving them again and again.

Transmutatio

Pragovka Gallery Pop - Up / Prague / Czech Republic

Curator / Lucie Nováčková

Technology / translucent display - 2090x790x60mm / PP hollow cylinder, subwoofer, water - 1230x550mm / series of drawings by robotic arm on paper - 1000x70mm

The installation entitled Transmutatio explores the transformation of water resources in the landscape over the years, not focusing only on negative influences, but trying to make a more complex observation of environmental change and wondering whether this observation can be documented by artistic means at all. He captures the change, which reveals both the negative and positive aspects of water transformation in the landscape, through an installation of interconnected light, sonic and graphic objects.

Water, grasped through its presence in the landscape, becomes the imaginary driver and consequence of the whole concept. Physically, the core of the installation consists of the interconnected objects Transmutatio and Fluctus. Transmutatio shows ink-splattering video drawings based on data from the European Commission's website on a translucent display. The information then travels to the neighbouring Fluctus object, which modulates the sound frequencies according to the dynamics generated by the video drawing in Transmutatio, thereby also influencing the shape of the water surface, which changes in response to the vibrations.

The pair of objects is complemented by a series of six drawings created by a special robotic arm based on data on the drying of the planet from the European Commission's website. These depict various problematic areas that are visually more or less significant, with black being the sign of the least amount of change. 

The whole installation is bathed in a warm yellow light as if in warning contrast to the environmental issue under investigation.

Intra Fluidum

Chov Gallery / Barchov / Czech Republic

Curator / Kristýna Pozlerová

Technology / combined aluminium profiles / laser / glass bulb / water from fire tank - 2000x2000mm 

The Intra Fluidum installation was specifically designed for the Breeding Gallery, where for two months it connected the water microworld with our reality. The essence of this visual laboratory is the continuous scanning of water droplets using a laser beam. This principle creates a unique projection in which the viewer can see previously hidden systems of microorganisms. Another level of Intra Fluidum's installation is to combine the viewer's imagination with a projection based on the unique conditions of the site. To this end, the Intra Fluidum installation uses a local water source - in this case, a fire tank behind the gallery. Because it is a water source directly from the installation site, the viewer can more easily synchronize with the Intra Fluidum action and thus find connections between the site and the projection.

Resonare De Audire Fluctus

Studio Prám / Prague / Czech Republic

Curator / Pavlína Janíková

Technology / laser cut aluminium - 500x100mm / metal balls / neodymium magnets / glass - 100x70mm / printing with robotic arm / plated fabric

The Resonare de Audire Fluctus installation follows the concept of the Audire Fluctus garment. It was first presented at the spring 2019 Mercedes-Benz Prague Fashion Week and was based on the uncovering of invisible electromagnetic waves. The wearers of the garment find themselves in the role of technological "flaneurs", to whom this imperceptible layer of reality has been revealed to the naked eye. For the pilgrims of Audire Fluctus, the big city becomes a distinct energy hub and the storm brings a symphony in the form of electromagnetic thunderbolts.

In Prague's Studio Prám, the installation Resonare de Audire Fluctus further explored and elaborated the phenomenon. Antennas placed around the gallery space sensed the ubiquitous electromagnetic waves. Based on this data, the kinetic sculpture continuously printed an amorphous object from tiny metal particles onto a magnetic substrate in a specific way, as a tangible record of EM activity. The set of drawings created by the robotic arm was magnetically attached to the gallery walls using the same metallic particles. The installation was completed by garments from the Audire Fluctus collection, this time as a kind of relic of past events, the pilgrims previously dressed in them could be seen only in the exhibited drawings.

Electromagnetic waves were therefore not only reflected in the individual parts, but as a connecting element permeated the entire installation.

Resonare de Inter Solaris

Atrium na Žižkově / Prague / Czech Republic

Curator / Petr Vaňous

Technique / printing with robotic arm on paper - 707×1000mm / neodymium magnets / laser cut aluminium / Fresnel lens - 2000x1800x700mm

The installation of Resonare de Inter Solaris builds on the previous work of Inter Solaris. This was a kinetic sculpture capable of melting and thus reshaping fragments of local rocks in various open-air environments using the sun's rays. The actions of Inter Solaris were intended to record a unique moment, which was recorded thanks to the melting into the rock. Here, the rock, in addition to being a medium, served as evidence of the place where the action took place and the resulting artifact of the process.

Hornina 01 / pozice 01

Hornina 01 / pozice 02

Hornina 01 / pozice 03

Hornina 01 / pozice 04

Hornina 01 / pozice 05

Hornina 01 / pozice 06

Inter Solaris / druhý výpal

Prokopské Údolí, Prague, Czech Republic

2000 x 1800 x 700 mm / neodymium magnets, laser cut aluminum, Fresnel lenses

Inter Solaris is a kinetic mechanism that, when placed in specific locations using solar radiation, transforms rocks found in its vicinity. The exposure of the kinetic mechanism itself is presented as a site-specific installation, for which the processing of rocks at various locations is key. The concept of the Inter Solaris mechanism works in time cycles, during which it acts on concentrated medium with concentrated sunlight. Medium - the rock is placed in a rotating shaft, which rotates and thus exposes various parts to the sun's rays. The rock is transformed and machined by the continuous action of sunlight. The whole device works depending on the solar activity of the Sun, which affects the course of transformation of the objects. The activity of the Sun is thus reflected in different intensities of recording into individual objects.

Inter Solaris / první výpal

Hora Říp, Středočeský Kraj, Czech Republic

2000 x 1800 x 700 mm / neodymium magnets, laser cut aluminum, Fresnel lenses

Inter Solaris is a kinetic mechanism that, when placed in specific locations using solar radiation, transforms rocks found in its vicinity. The exposure of the kinetic mechanism itself is presented as a site-specific installation, for which the processing of rocks at various locations is key. The concept of the Inter Solaris mechanism works in time cycles, during which it acts on concentrated medium with concentrated sunlight. Medium - the rock is placed in a rotating shaft, which rotates and thus exposes various parts to the sun's rays. The rock is transformed and machined by the continuous action of sunlight. The whole device works depending on the solar activity of the Sun, which affects the course of transformation of the objects. The activity of the Sun is thus reflected in different intensities of recording into individual objects.

Full Moon Transmission 03

Egon Schiele Art Center, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic

500 x 2000 mm / aluminum sheet, subwoofer, analog projector

This is a site-specific installation that builds on its previous presentation in the exterior, where its essence was to capture the luminosity and position of the Moon relative to the Earth at full moon and the subsequent transformation of these phenomena using a light analog projector. The output thus became a specific audiovisual installation. One of the themes that appears in the installation is the reflection of natural cycles, influenced by the relationship of the Moon to the Earth. A lunar cycle that has undergone an evolution of opinion during its journey, from a spiritual to a pragmatically experimentally verified insight of society. It allowed us to look at the moon's relationship with the earth as a formula of opinion that accelerates further into the future from its inception. And which in history has marked itself as one of the milestones in the perception of time or the observation of the gravitational energies associated with the full moon. However, the acceleration of thought does not narrow the circuit themes like a spearhead of spears towards one goal, on the contrary, the stream of opinions offers a branching range of views of this phenomenon to which we are exposed. It is necessary to look into the palette of interrelationships of indirect influences associated with it. This satellite that can be watched by anyone and from anywhere on earth. It is projected in all cultural (ethnic) layers. The connection to man, which is also evident in the elementary perception of day and night. Or inclusion in the context of religion. However, the installation does not aim to reveal in detail the socio-cultural horizons associated with this phenomenon. But to draw attention to their connection and mediation of the raw connection with the moon in its clearest full moon form. The moon then becomes the node from which the threads are guided by context. The installation mirror will then facilitate the virtual connection and materialization of the abstract planes. The individual viewer here represents a multitude of opinion streams that change dynamically according to the number of users. The main thought node represented by the lunar disk is converted in the installation into a range of sound frequencies that vibrate the membrane inside the projector. The soil extract is stored in the membrane at the place where the installation is located, which in a symbolic level connects the location of the installation and the scanned moon. The final synchronization of the projection position and the Moon occurs when the sound signal reaches the illuminated diaphragm and vibrates the medium on it. All the action that takes place in the projector is displayed on the projection screen, located under the projector. The projection screen is tuned to the same vibration scale as the diaphragm in the projector. This also leads the imaginary communication between the membrane and the projection surface in the installation. These vibrations, which pass through the viewers and visual foot projections, allow us to focus on a moment that may sometimes come to us as mundane or so abstract that they merge into easier reality. The installation thus offers an insight into the triangular connection of the moon, earth and man. The monthly screening was carried out in cooperation with a stolen gallery in the former laundry.

Full Moon Transmission

Academy of Fine Arts in Prague / Prague / Czech Republic

Technika / 500 x 2000 mm / aluminum plate, subwoofer, analog projector

The installation builds on its previous presentation in the exterior, where its essence was to capture the luminosity and the position of the Moon relative to the Earth at full moon and the subsequent transformation of these phenomena using a light analog projector. The output thus became a specific audiovisual installation.

One of the themes that appears in the installation is the reflection of natural cycles, influenced by the relationship of the Moon to the Earth. A lunar cycle that has undergone an evolution of opinion during its journey, from a spiritual to a pragmatically experimentally verified insight of society. It allowed us to view the moon's relationship with the earth as a formula of opinion that accelerates further into the future from its inception. And which in history has marked itself as one of the milestones in the perception of time or the observation of the gravitational energies associated with the full moon. However, the acceleration of thought does not narrow the range of topics such as the spearhead towards a single goal, on the contrary, the stream of opinions offers a branching range of views on this phenomenon to which we are exposed.

To better understand the role of installation in the context of fine arts. It is necessary to look into the range of interconnectedness of indirect influences associated with it. This satellite that anyone and anywhere on earth can watch. It is projected in all cultural (ethnic) strata. The connection to man, which is also evident in the elementary perception of day and night. Or inclusion in the context of religion. However, the installation does not aim to reveal in detail the socio-cultural horizons associated with this phenomenon. But to draw attention to their connection and mediation of the raw connection with the moon in its clearest full moon form. The moon then becomes the node from which the threads of context are led. The installation mirror will then facilitate the virtual connection and materialization of the abstract planes. The individuality of the viewer here represents a multitude of opinion stream which changes dynamically according to the number of users.

The main mind node represented by the lunar disk is converted in the installation into a range of sound frequencies that vibrate the membrane inside the projector. An extract from the soil is stored in the membrane at the place where the installation is currently located, which in a symbolic level connects the location of the installation and the scanned moon. The final synchronization of the projection point and the Moon occurs when the sound signal arrives at the illuminated diaphragm and vibrates the medium on it. All the action that takes place in the projector is displayed on the screen, located under the projector. The projection surface is tuned to the same vibration scale as the diaphragm in the projector. This also leads to the imaginary communication between the membrane and the projection surface in the installation. These vibrations, which pass through the viewers and the visual trace of the projection, allow us to focus on a moment that may sometimes come to us mundane or so abstract that they merge with our reality. The installation thus offers an insight into the triangular connection of the moon, earth and man.