Yto Aranda: Interactive Electronic Painting

An exhibition by Yto Aranda revealing the countless roles played by modern technologies in contemporary art was inaugurated on Thursday, October 13, in Artium, Chile.

The title of the display Interactive Electronic Painting comes from a concept developed by the artist after a decade-long research about painting and digital media. Specifically since 2008, Yto has been working on this series that includes two flagship projects: e-painting insane and R x 1000 stage 2.0, both of them showing the relationship between technological art and traditional art, through painting. Likewise, the exhibition includes her “light paintings,” and other pieces that form part of the Artium Gallery’s collection.

“I think that through the convergence of painting and digital media, I can contribute something different, that reflects the individual route (always collective at the same time) of my artistic and social experience,” the artist said.

e-pintura insane is a sonorous and visual process-work started by Aranda in 2009 with the building of the website http://www.yto.cl/demente/. The viewer can interact with the pieces in the series, by means of buttons and sensors that respond to circuits integrated in the paintings. In addition, viewers were invited to contribute texts, images …. On the other hand, Rx1000 2.0 (Resistance per one thousand, second phase) emerged within the framework of the Ninth Video and Medieval Arts Biennial (Museum of Cotemporary Art, Quinta Normal, University of Chile) and it is a big painting consisting on 1,122 hand-painted pieces. Artium’s exhibition shows the second stage of this project in which the concept of web is developed by using sensors and at least eight people are needed to make the whole work vibrate. Regarding the light paintings, Aranda unveils in this case an unpublished series of works inspired in first-time experiences; in this project she worked jointly with Roberto Larraguibel and NuryGaviola.

Yto Aranda (1966) has a degree on Arts from the University of Chile. Early in her career, she focused in modern technologies, working over the Internet since 1997. She has shown great interest in topics related with communication, collaboration and community development. In 1999, she created the Escaner Cultural online magazine and has been its director ever since then. She is a regular participant in exhibitions, international  meetings and projects wedding art and technology, particularly those held in Chile, Brazil, Canada, Argentina and Mexico, like the International Cervantino Festival and the Eighth Biennial of Visual Poetry (Mexico, 2004), FILE – Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009) and the Festival Montréal en Lumière (Canada, 2008).

The exhibition will be on display until October 31. For further information visit  www.artium.cl/ www.yto.cl.

Artium

Alonso de Cordova 3102

Vitacura, Chile

Source: Press release