Peripheral
—CGI generating video
—Deep generator network
—5.1 surround sound
—2023–ongoing
—No time
[Installation shot at Ca2M, 2023]
CGI animator: David Guerrero
Research: Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science
MBARI
Monterey Bay Aquarium
MBARI
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Peripheral conflate archaic idioms with futuristic expressions where immaterial elements such as light are rather relevant in a narrative way. Comb jellies are descendants of the earliest lineage of animals to branch off on their own when animals first evolved multicellularity over 600 million years ago and their translucent bodies change color depending on its environment, using luminescence to survive. Their transparent body —and particularly their neverending light spasms— establish different analogies with the neons I usually produce despite being completely different technological bodies