Arcángel Constantini
Arcángel Constantini (Mexico) is a ultifaceted artist who develops work with an experimental and playful character, formally and conceptually reinforced. Part of his productive attention has been turning in a loop, feeding from the obsolescence of technological objects and redefining them in the artistic context, as well as experiencing market events as a sociological phenomena and a source of inspiration.
His activities draw on implementations that give meaning to obsolete objects
and events based on basic electronics and their operation, conceptual
recycling, the construction of low-tech electromechanical systems and the
extrapolation of ideas about different creative fields. Active in the
net.art scene, he has had a series of projects online since 1997, the year
he started this activity. He is a member of hell.com as well as a curator
and independent manger organising exhibitions and events at the Cyberlounge
of the Tamayo museum. He was a member of the curator board at the Festival
de Arte Electrónico Transitio Mx, and the Dorkbot, Mexico City board.
He is the director of the emerging gallery ¼; he has exhibited his work in
festivals and exhibitions in countries like, Holland, Argentina, Peru,
Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Puerto Rico, Canada, Italy, UK, Uruguay,
Brazil, Australia, Spain and Portugal; he won the Rockefeller MacArthur
grant for new media and is currently a member of the Sistema Nacional de
creadores FONCA.
http://www.nanodrizas.org/index.php?/info/cv/
Nanodrizas (2009) - work in progress (premier)
The Nanodrizas are 13 floating autonomous robotic artifacts forming a
network of wireless sensors, which measure, in real time, the water
environmental conditions, transmitting data to local decentralized systems
and Internet applications for interpretation, visualization and analysis,
establishing a radio frequency communication network, satellite Internet and
GPS. As a consequence, they intervene the space with synthesized sound and
release bacterial and enzymatic remedies in situ.
Nanodrizas, inspired by science fiction, have the shape of a flying saucer, that besides being a direct referent, give an ideal exposed surface for the collocation of photovoltaic cells to capture solar rays for energy
harvesting, together with ultra capacitors and lithium batteries, so as to
provide the electronic and autonomy system's needs.
These floating devices are planned as a radiofrequency communicative
network, each of them is a node that transmits and receives censed data;
they are structured as operative artificial species because of their
relation with the environment as well as the group answer to the
environmental phenomenon.
The individual intention of the processes executed by the Nanodrizas is
immersed as an holistic communicative process, the purpose of the sound
activity is, on the one hand, a formal solution of tactile communication
with the spectator, and on the other, one of communication with the watery
system when it emits representative sound waves of the environmental
condition to the system itself.
The intention, when using bacteria, seeks to also be communicative to the
watery medium. The use of different bacteria crops is sought, so that its
function would be to reestablish the system.
Nanodrizas, in this first stage, use organic matter as the reconstituent
element of the affluent, looking forward to using it in the future, combined
with specific machinery (MEMS), a product of nanotechnology.
Nanodrizas communicate with each other through the use of a particular
radiofrequency, establishing a wireless sensor network which sends readings
to a master center that documents and reinterprets the action in a numeric
level, thus establishing communication with the digital environment through
the Internet.
http://www.nanodrizas.org/
Project supported by:
Fundación Telefónica, interplanet, Airdesign, Fundación Bancomer, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Cinvestav, Casa del Lago, IICyT, direccion del bosque de Chapultepec, Eje7.