{"id":3784,"date":"2024-04-10T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/?post_type=event&#038;p=3784"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:12:19","slug":"index-bma-lab-synspecies","status":"publish","type":[34,41],"link":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2024\/index-bma-lab-synspecies\/","title":{"rendered":"index: bma lab \u2014 synspecies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SYNSPECIES is a collaborative audiovisual project developed by the Spanish designer and musician El\u00edas Merino and the Slovenian media artist Tadej Droljc. In this masterclass, the two artists take the audience behind the scenes of their work and present the ideas behind the audiovisual imagery of SYNSPECIES.<br \/>\nThe work is inspired by virtual ecologies and unstable morphological spaces that emerge from a devastating interaction of co-existing unrelated entities with the void. It is out of these dichotomies, dialogues and conflicts that the duo have built the unique audiovisual language that is the driving force behind SYNSPECIES.<br \/>\nThey will also present ASBU (see page XX), a journey through time and space. In this work, the artist duo explore concepts such as speculative fiction, the weird, superstitions; a particular view of cyberspace; dream visions, myths and folktales; as well as the sublime yet harsh realities of nature\u2019s workings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>synspecies<\/strong><br \/>\nSYNSPECIES is the outcome of several long discussions and conceptual drifts regarding virtual audiovisual objects, digital art paradigms, and narrative exploration. The project is a creation of artists El\u00edas Merino and Tadej Droljc, inspired by virtual ecologies and unstable morphological spaces that emerge from a devastating interaction of co-existing unrelated entities with the void.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>el\u00edas merino<\/strong><br \/>\nEl\u00edas Merino is a composer and sound artist based in Madrid. His practice includes installation, composition and live performance. Merino works in the fields of abstract and algorithmic computer music, contemporary electronics and instrumental music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>tadej droljc<\/strong><br \/>\nTadej Droljc is a Slovenian artist and creative coder working at the intersection of sound, image and light. He has been awarded the Lumen Prize Student Award, the Dennis Smalley Scholarship in Electroacoustic Music and the Most Promising Video Artist Award at Madatac (Madrid).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>mediators <\/strong>synspecies (el\u00edas merino and tadej droljc)<br \/>\n<strong>target audience<\/strong> artists, programmers, teachers and other professionals interested in the media arts<br \/>\n<strong>duration<\/strong> 2 hours approx.<br \/>\n<strong>note<\/strong> masterclass in english<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">masterclass included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/indexmediaarts.com\/\">index 2024 &#8211; art and technology biennial programme<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">the index art and technology biennial is part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the april revolution<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10517 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/50x2_principal_1cor_negativo_CMYK-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYNSPECIES is a collaborative audiovisual project developed by the Spanish designer and musician El\u00edas Merino and the Slovenian media artist Tadej Droljc. In this masterclass, the two artists take the audience behind the scenes of their work and present the ideas behind the audiovisual imagery of SYNSPECIES. The work is inspired by virtual ecologies and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/event\/2024\/index-bma-lab-synspecies\/\" title=\"Learn More\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3785,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3784","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-educational-service","type-masterclass"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3784\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gnration.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}