Evanescence
Keywords: Individuation, Blur, Unpredictability, Interactive Sculpture
Materials: Clay, Kinect Camera, Screen, Aluminium Extrusion, Stepper Motors, Arduino
2m x 2m
Evanescence is an interactive sculpture exploring the potential for collective transformation of human identity through the generation of a composite face. As a temporal installation, it challenges the established set of rules defining individuality. It passively interacts with the audience by capturing the ambient faces in defined intervals of time, gradually carving new profiles over the existing ones. In this process, the artist embraces its unpredictability, allowing it to slowly destroy the conventional understanding of what a face is. It blurs the boundaries between participants, as they gain a new configuration as a collective entity, undoing their inceptive orientation and melting the conventional roles, types and images demanded by society.
Originally from Lisbon, Sofia is a computational artist based in London, with a background in both arts and computer science. Her interests include interactive art, creative coding and web development. Through computation and installation, Sofia researches the overarching fields of perception and intermedia, exploring the intersection between different sensing experiences.
