FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Michael Betancourt
Garden
Michael Betancourt
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – CGI VIDEOS
Electronic Language International Festival
Garden – United States
Garden is a generative glitches animation created by deliberately conflicting AI (LoRA) models. Using multiple LoRA models to generate images that evoke flowers in a garden, the work transforms traditional representations of plant life into a fluid and hallucinatory exploration of growth, decay, and metamorphosis. These transformations suggest alternative ways of understanding organic growth, where the boundaries between individual organisms become fluid and permeable.
BIO
Michael Betancourt is a contemporary Cuban-American critical theorist, filmmaker, and artist-researcher known for his pioneering work in the fields of Digital Capitalism, Motion Graphics , and Glitch Art . Since 1990, he has explored the intersection of technology, culture, and aesthetics in a diverse practice unified by a constant concern with the poetic potential of images generated by errors.
ART+COM
Lluvia cinética
Kinetic Rain es una obra de arte diseñada para la Terminal 1 del aeropuerto Changi de Singapur. La escultura cinética agrega un elemento contemplativo al animado espacio de tránsito de la sala de salidas. Kinetic Rain consta de dos partes instaladas sobre las dos escaleras mecánicas centrales de la terminal. Cada elemento simétrico está compuesto por 608 gotas de aluminio recubiertas de cobre. Las gotas están conectadas por cables de acero a motores controlados por computadora que las suben y bajan con precisión.
Nick Paparone
Idol
Nick Paparone functions within the systems of mass culture and the marketplace in order to satirize and expose their inner-workings. Employing a variety of media from video, installation, and performance, the artist states that his work “is slathered with evolving iterations that anatomize branding idioms and client dynamics.more…
LESLIE DAVID
Experimentation
JIYONG LEE
Segmentation Series (genetic building block)
Laurie Simmons
劳丽西蒙斯
ローリー·シモンズ
로리 시몬스
ЛОРИ СИММОНС
Walking Pocket Watch/ The Music of Regret
SIMMONS HAS LONG INVESTIGATED HUMAN PERFORMANCE AS IT RELATES TO SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH A DEEP DOCUMENTATION AND PROFOUND CHOREOGRAPHY OF DOLLS AND OBJECTS IN AND ON A STAGE. THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTION AND REALITY ARE OFTEN BLURRED, AND THE ARTIST’S TABLEAUS ARE EVOCATIVE OF A SINCERE HUMANITY, EMOTION AND CHARACTER.
ALISON SAAR
Skin/Deep
Maxim Zhestkov
Pulsar 2021
“New dimensions inside monuments. An excerpt from my art project Pulsar 2021..” Maxim Zhestkov
KENGO KUMA
eska plastic optical fiber
TOYO ITO
تويو ايتو
伊东丰雄
טויו איטו
伊東豊雄
도요 이토
Tower of Winds
During the day the perforated metal panels that cover the Tower of Winds reflect the city image and make the design appear humble and simple. But during the night, it gets lit up in an ever-changing combination of light intensity and colors. Using computer software, the lighting follows the wind speed and noise levels changing the Tower’s appearance accordingly. The Tower of Winds features more than 1300 light bulbs and 42 flood lights and neon rings (on each floor). The small lights change their colors according to the wind’s noise level and the rings change their intensity according to its speed.
Basically, the Tower of the Winds by Toyo Ito is a wind indicator in a constant relationship with the city and the natural environment, a junction between the two. It is placed at the train station area, welcoming the passengers arriving in Yokohama and its functional role is accommodating another natural element. Surprisingly the Tower of Winds houses the water tanks for the air-conditioning system of the underground mall below. The Tower is not a new construction, but a re-designing of an old concrete tower that already existed there since the ‘60s.
NANINE LINNING
Hieronymus B
Nanine Linning consciously leaves the beaten theatrical path with her artistic vision by intensely integrating dance, design, video, music, visual arts and fashion. Her extremely physical choreographies and out of the box events make reference to human instincts and emotions as well as aspects of cultural history and social criticism.
TAMARA KVESITADZE
Love
yin xiuzhen
Инь Сючжэн
尹秀珍
