The installation invites you between the sheets, inside a living and breathing space, which allows foar a playful exploration of intimacies. An organism of spectral drapes, collected from our friends and family’s discarded bedding, hangs in a loose arrangement of ‘melting’ walls and ceilings, exploring how ideas of intimacy shape and are shaped by intimate relationships.
By navigating this space, you are invited to negotiate moving/ changing boundaries - pulsating and contracting walls that react to presence. We define the installation as an interactive sculpture that is designed to respond to both circulation and proximity with the use of DIY electronics - air ducts, relays, electric fans - and a custom soundscape.
Dorin is an interactive artist based in Bucharest. He has a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and a Master of Arts degree in Interactive Technologies in Media and Performance Art. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies in Bucharest, focusing on emotion recognition from sound. His research concerns interactive environments, emerging AI technologies, and the cooperation between humans and machines. He is actively involved in teaching a Creative Coding lab at UNATC University in Bucharest. In his artistic pursuits, he delves into the concept of sentient machines and explores the significance of emotions in human-machine relationships. Over the past three years, he has successfully developed several interactive installations that address this duality. He actively explores sound performances, DIY electronics, and live coding as part of his artistic practice.
Wilfred is interested in notions of space and place, spatial thinking, placemaking and acoustics, a research and practice started with an undergraduate in Architectural Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth (UK) and developed into the making of installations & sound performance during the critical theory Masters in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute, Netherlands.
As a student, Wilfred wrote regular experiential and poetic pieces on Serpentine Gallery’s (London) series of architectural pavilions for the annual Royal Institute of British Architects’ Student Newsletter. Throughout his studies and artistic endeavors, Wilfred has maintained a consistent writing practice, investigating language, particularly in its sonorous qualities, pertaining to sound, rhythm, tone and performative text.
Maria works as a freelance videographer and photographer, researcher in the field of social sciences, consultant in research with multimedia components and multimedia workshop trainer for high school students. Her projects integrate interactive technologies to create new environments and interfaces for visual research. She completed an MA in Ethnographic Film at the Granada Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester and studied Interactive Technologies for Performing Arts and Media at CINETic, UNATC.