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Hugo Paquete is developing the field of visual arts and sound installation exploring the complex relation between the man and reality and the paradigms of language, perception and technology. His work carries us to one purified and synthesized language with the objective of constructing a new aesthetic of mental structuralism landscapes. He constructs this aesthetic in a surrounding noise of concrete music and ambient sound spaces and works with the conceptual relation with the objects where from the logic we reach the abstraction.

Since 2001 he has been working on an expanded concept of sound space and communication incorporating space according to its spatial characteristics in the narrow sense (acoustic, architectonic, sculptural, perspective, communicative and ambient). Beyond this, his installation works conceive space in its site-specificity, usually existing in several layers: a social layer, the communicative between emission and reception, and a situational layer exploring the concept of understanding of the reality and perception.

In some installations he explores this concept with several sound speakers and players giving different sound signals to the space to construct a more complex situation according to the conceptual explanation of the communicative space interception and brain selective information.

With “Space Dynamics” Hugo Paquete is interested in exploring the knowledge of the reality and the process of communication that go beyond the common perception. He uses elements from the city space to understand the conscience level that we have in the contemporaneity. He Explores the notions of dynamics and tension to represent a new city sound representation.

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2/3/8

sister george – making tv scene 1968
television tomarrow – found footage 1943?
5 cents a peek – vanessa woods 2007
post mortem crush 53 – sophie tucker – day v jones 2008

2/10/8

hootenanny scene – music for millions 1944
echo park – paul clipson 2007
post mortem crush 54 – marie bryant – day v jones 2008

2/17/8

living stereo – found footage 1953?
i am director – rachel manera 2006
post mortem crush 55 – phineas newborn jr. – day v jones 2008

2/24/8

fight scene – destry rides again 1939
bulb in the head – melika bass 2006
je meurs – jeremy newman 2007
tribe 8 – butch in the streets – dirtybird – day v jones 1996
my secret love affair with matt gonzalez – gordon winiemko 2007
post mortem crush 56 – victoria spivey dayv v jones 2008
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This installation makes use of a security camera rigged to a video game controller, software, and a laptop. The camera/game controller (nicknamed “LoopyCam”) captures, loops, and processes digital video images. Pointed outward at Valencia Street, the camera captures, loops, and processes imagery of passersby. Visually engaging patterns, overlays, color shifts, and layers of visual ‘remixes’ are generated by chance by the game controller and software.

About the artist:

Tim Thompson is a software engineer and artist who enjoys the creative process of developing artistic software for visuals and music, often involving unusual controllers. He has been inspired by events such as Woodstockhausen and Burning Man, where his interactive creations include a 12-foot high lyre and an antique radio. He collaborates with local ensembles dud and DOUBLE VISION. http://timthompson.com

About the Curator:

Liena Vayzman is a photo/video artist and curator of experimental and new media art. She recently co-curated “Chance Operations” and “Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments” at the Climate Theater, San Francisco. Vayzman curated the 30-artist exhibition “HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art” at Root Division in San Francisco in 2007. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She teaches in the Photography Department at San Jose State University. www.lienavayzman.com