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Martin Bricelj Baraga & Fraction: DROPS in St. Petersburg

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DROPS is an audiovisual installation that sonifies the melting of ice in time through days, months, years – using the lycra textile that forms a levitating drop as a projection surface. DROPS is based on a data visualisation and sonification piece developed by Baraga and Fraction – a composition in time, about the disappearance of our most valuable natural element – ice.

The installation visualises and sonifies the melting of ice in time through years, months, days. The composition that visualises drops as a metaphor of melting ice transforms rapidly as we move towards the present moment- clearly reminding us of its urgency.

The dataset is used from project IMBIE, a collaboration between scientists supported by the ESA (European Space Agency) and the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

VIDEO:
https://vimeo.com/499562909

About ArtAntarctica

The ArtAntarctica Festival is organised by the Manege Centre, one of the main exhibition centres for contemporary art in St Petersburg. The festival is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian seafarers Fabian Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev. The festival is designed on several levels, with an outdoor exhibition creating an interactive cultural space and encouraging reflection on public space. ArtAntarctica presents a video mapping installation on a large iceberg, installed on Ploshchadi Truda (Workers’ Square) in St. Petersburg. Different compositions of video mapping are projected on the surface of the iceberg. The installation is a new artistic experiment that connects contemporary art with the historical urban environment. Art Antarctica offers viewers a unique journey through time: the exhibition takes the visitor back to the period of the discovery of Antarctica by broadcasting the stories of Russian explorers.

The collaborative project DROPS by the intermedia artists Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI) and Eric Raynaud (Fraction, FR) was presented in the festival’s video performance section with a premiere on 12 January, and was on show until 27 January 2021.

Links:
http://manege.spb.ru/en/events/the-artantarctica-project/

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MoTA organizes and supports transitory art in the form of continuous events, exhibitions and educational programs both locally and internationally. As its name indicates, MoTA examines what a museum can be today and in the future.

MoTA is in constant search for the new, the uncertain, and the undefined.

MoTA works on several continuous programmes & projects. We run MoTA Point – a Space for Art & Ideas, we curate and produce the annual SONICA Festival, in addition to regular music programmes such as SONICA Series and SONICA Classics.

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