KIOSK: Alessandro Capozzo and Katja Noppes
Alessandro Capozzo and Katja Noppes (IT/USA)
Exuvia, 2006
Software (Processing), analog and digital mixed media, synthetic material and talcum powder
Collection of the artists
“Exuvia” is a term used in biology to describe the remains of an exoskeleton that is left after an arthropod (insect, crustacean or arachnid) has moulted. Exuvia is a mixed media installation consisting in a semitransparent synthetic material mould of a desktop computer (connected to its peripherals) and an LCD display with an epoxidic resin layer mounted on, where a dragonfly wings representation has been imprinted. A semi generative software is visualized on the prepared LCD display: a set of attractors “drive” an agents flow through wings lines of force. Through the interaction between an analogue medium and a digital one, Exuvia suggests a narrative flow starting from a metamorphosis till the spreading wings climax: vital, delicate and ephemeral as software could be.
Alessandro Capozzo and Katja Noppes (IT/USA) are part of the KIOSK-gallery, curated by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta.
