Aetherbits

Collective formed by Mariela Cádiz (Spain), Kent Clelland (USA) and Denis Lelong (France), multimedia artists who have collaborated on artistic projects of digital creation from 3D computer graphics to live cinema performances and interactive multimedia installations. Informational networks are treated in Social Synthesizer_Prototype, calls received through a Skype answering machine are transformed into a collective composition of images and sounds, which feed back and evolve at every moment, with the participation of the public and users of the Network. Mariela Cádiz studied Fine Arts in Madrid and Denis Lelong studied metal sculpture in Paris (France). Both majored in new visual media at CalArts. They currently live in France and work in new media. Kent Clelland is a digital music composer who studied saxophone, composition, and music theory before pursuing a Master of Interactive Composition at CalArts. He currently lives in Germany and designs touch performance software for music and video.

They participate in Medialab Madrid with the digital project Social synthesizer that explores and investigates the application of sound synthesis techniques to process databases of audiovisual material from interactive computer networks in which the content is generated by users (computer networks with architecture collective participation and social networks). It is a small-scale participatory model experiment that seeks to create an interactive, self-evolving, perpetual generation audiovisual instrument on a large scale.

They also participated in Medialab Madrid banquete05 with “Levántate, 2002”. Interactive audiovisual installation. The body is a sender and receiver of signals that communicates with its environment. Our identity is just a sensitive, vulnerable and transformable membrane. If the body exists through language and its representations, its code is a battlefield between creation, destruction and regeneration. What you breathe in this burning darkness is an immersion in our secret life. The audiovisual installation shows the image of an electronic body projected overhead on a kind of sarcophagus and visualizes the most intangible part of the human body: the incessant transformation of flows of information and energy.