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We have received more then 70 applications from all over the Nordic countries for the HYBRID MATTERs production grant. The quality of the applications has been generally high and so it was really difficult for the HYBRID MATTERs team to come to a conclusion. Finally we settled on the exciting proposals TROUBLED ATMOSPHERE by Hanna Husberg and FOLDING by Lawrence Malstaf. We are looking forward to produce these new works in collaboration with them and keep you updated on the develoments.
Her proposal with the working title TROUBLED ATMOSPHERE investigates the explosion of new materials dissipating into the biosphere and the atmosphere at large scales. By defining the atmosphere as troubled, her intention is to address the question of perception and visibility, and to stress the materiality of the atmosphere, and its characteristic as a medium to transmit light and vibrations and to diffuse volatile and soluble chemicals. She also evokes an estrangement produced by the difficulty to understand climatic phenomena occurring at multiple and contradicting scales.
His proposal FOLDING stems from a research project using side effects in 3D scanning and modeling software to explore the borderline between representation and abstraction. The aim is to accumulate a series of full scale kinetic sculptures based on 3D scans of the exhibition visitors. The kinetic and acoustic dimension in this project will involve breathing: The sculptures will breathe, expand and shrink according to real time breathing patterns of the public in the space. Thus the visitors are reanimating the abstracted models of earlier visitors and create a responsive choir of breathing avatars. A metaphor for the blurring boundaries between animate nature and inanimate simulation and modeling technology.