Máquina de síntomas
En ‘We Need Sanctuary’ (2016) y ‘Symptom Machine’ (2017), Cooper presenta el cuerpo como un espacio disputado para la comunicación y la representación. Utilizando imágenes generadas por computadora, se combinan situaciones y personajes para pensar a través de la política del trabajo explotador y la experiencia somática de la producción y distribución de imágenes. Ambas obras presentan escenas de cuerpos generados por ordenador; tanto femeninos como no humanos que se vislumbran en los mismos bordes de la pantalla. Sus manos se tocan; se mueven hacia atrás en una cinta transportadora; y la sangre gotea de la boca de la niña mientras el no humano barre el piso detrás de ella.

Somatic Echo
“Somatic Echo” is an experimental sound art and research project that utilizes bone conducted sound as a method to investigate human audition and create an unusual and mesmerizing aesthetic of the body as a medium of sound. The installation uses a reclining chair and a sound mask to play an 8-channel sound composition through 8 transducers placed on the user’s head: 6 channels in the face and 2 in the back of the head. The transducers transmit sound through the bone structure of the skull directly to the listener’s inner ear, bypassing the outer ears, which normally are the gateway for auditory signals. The listeners experience the soundscape through both their auditory and tactile senses perceiving a sonic image shaped by the sound traveling through the head structure and through vibrations applied to the skin. This set up lets us experience sound through our body and our body through sound.

от стыда
On Shame является частью серии Psychosomatics, которая была начата в 2010 году. В этих работах Франко позволяет ощутимо испытать такие эмоции, как радость, страх, замешательство, счастье или стыд с помощью цифровых технологий. Камеры, датчики движения и тактильные сенсоры служат инструментами для облегчения диалога между людьми и машинами. более…

Somatic Field Project
In 2014, he started Somatic Field Project, aiming at nurturing young dancers as well as his own movement method ‘Kinetic Force Method’.

In ‘We Need Sanctuary’ (2016) and ‘Symptom Machine’ (2017), Cooper offers the body up as a contested space for communication and representation. Using computer-generated imagery, situations and characters are brought together to think through politics of exploitative labour, and the somatic experience of image production and distribution. Both works present, scenes of a Computer-generated bodies; both female and non-human who loom at the very edges of the screen. Their hands touch; they move backwards on a conveyor belt; and blood drips from the girl’s mouth while the non-human sweeps the floor behind her.

On Shame
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foto: Luiza Ananias
On Shame is part of the series Psychosomatics which was initiated in 2010. In these works Franco makes it possible to tangibly experience such emotions as joy, fear, confusion, happiness or shame by means of digital technologies. Cameras and motion and tactile sensors serve as tools to facilitate the dialogue between humans and machines. more…