Nacre (in collaboration with Marco Antonini), mixed media 2009
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
A synthesized Creature cultivated in the net, fed by incoherent and divergent data.
Nacre grows trying to protect itself from interferences and anomalies retrieved from the net.
Those data are perceived as hostile bodies, thus analized and converted into a shield through a frantic, abnormal growth.
THE MOTHER OF PEARL
The Pearl originates its beauty by reacting to external interferences.
Organic materials, parasites and even mantle tissue of the oyster itself are considered a threat, and covered in nacre.
Also known as “mother of pearl”, nacre is composed of hexagonal platelets of a substance called aragonite.
NACRE is a project in which data inconsistencies retrieved from the net bloom into an ever-changing sprawling structure. Interferences and anomalies (the multi-faceted constituents of networks that are no longer able to produce a linear, unequivocal reality) are perceived as a hostile external body.
Built from huddling hexagonal platelets designed over information collected by a spider (an automatic computer program which crawls the net in search of data), NACRE exists to give shape to this underworld of deceptive, ambiguous data, in a way that is neither creative nor critical.
NACRE has a completely different approach to the economy and ecology of information. Its peculiar treatment of fragments of data and information sustain a completely useless, anti-iconic entity.
Unwilling to decipher a complexity which is perceived as completely unmanageable, scary and beautiful, NACRE stubbornly tries to protect itself from an overwhelming reality with its frantic, abnormal growth.
OTHER = ME + OTHER
Panels from the exhibition
PROJECT DETAILS
Project Name Nacre
Year 2008
Materials Vbs Programming, Internet Network