“Re:****Sitruuna ja meduusa”
Artists: Merja Nieminen and James Andean
**“**Re:Sitruuna ja meduusa” is an audiovisual installation.
The installation constructs a ‘live’ dynamic system, comprised of projected 3D graphics and projected sound, creating a virtual environment or ecosystem which changes and evolves in real-time. It explores the capacity of the spectator to create relationships – to build worlds – from multiple sensory information.
The completed work runs live in the Processing and MaxMSP programming environments. The visuals are constantly being freshly generated by Processing, and output to projectors in the gallery space; being live, the work never presents the same scene twice – each and every visual moment is entirely unique.
Relationships are kept in a delicate balance between clarity and obscurity. Are visible behaviours triggered and controlled by sound, or do their behaviours create sound? Are we listening to their actions, or are we watching them respond to the sounds of their environment? This projected universe operates on its own laws; familiar, but somehow elusive. These laws appear to be based in sound, or to emit sound: objects turn; the projected world turns… while sound events strike, scurry past, or resonate…
James Andean is a musician and sound artist. He is active as both a performer and a composer in a range of fields, including electroacoustic composition and performance, improvisation, sound installation, and sound recording. He is a founding member of improvisation and new music quartet The Rank Ensemble and of the sound collective Resonator Helsinki, and one half of the audiovisual performance art duo Plucié/DesAndes. He has performed in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Italy and Canada, and his works have been performed in Finland, Norway, Russia, Portugal, Canada and China.
Merja Nieminen is a Finnish visual artist who currently lives and works in Helsinki. Her studies include architecture studies in the University of Technology, Helsinki, and media art studies in Medialab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki. She works in collaboration with artists from diverse fields including electro acoustic rhytm music, classical music, dance and new circus. Current projects include collaborations with Tuomas Norvio, James Andean, Defunensamble, Mikko Kallinen Company, Circo Aereo and Meidän Orkesteri. Her works include abstract animations for audio visual performances and installations.