TRACES
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Jorge Luis Bandera Martínez & D.A. Restrepo-Quevedo



Traces is an electronic work of art defined as an immersive interactive interface. The relationship between these three components fosters in playful way scenario in which the participation of the human being in natural environments that are represented through digitization is encouraged. It is a work in which three natural spaces typical of the territorial characteristics of Latin America are digitally represented. These are initially a space of an aqueous system. In this very common space in many living environments typical of the Latin American territory, it is possible to observe how drinking water emerges from natural resources from the symbiotic relationship between the plants that promote its condensation and the living ecosystems that they can take advantage of. These scenarios begin to feel a level of reduction when we verify their relationship with the decrease in plant environments that favour their outbreak. A second scenario is the one posed by the mountains, also present in the Latin American territory in which the peaks characterized by snow-capped mountains are becoming increasingly scarce in response to global warming. In these spaces, it has been possible to develop an ecosystem and a relationship with the environment that allows for the emergence of water springs, but it is also the natural environment of birds that only exist on the planet in these territories, as is the case of the Condor of the Andes. Entering these territories is knowing a variety of the extremely important and transcendent ecosystems for the Latin American region, however, due to global warming, the native spaces of many of the animal species that inhabit these territories are diminished. We understand then, here too, that the relationship of the human being, even if it is not in the territory, begins to have very strong implications on other conditioning factors in territories that are not necessarily where those who consume the most are located.



Finally, the third and last component is represented through an arboreal space in which trees typical of the territories of the medium-height areas in Latin America begin to be affected due to deforestation and human presence to promote invasion of agriculture systems. or uncontrolled livestock. Traces put a critical eye on this relationship and on the way that as human beings we have been affecting the reality of the world and the reality of the territories. As the human presence not only deteriorates the quality of the resource that it represented by the digitized, building a series of deformities, which have the territories and living systems as an adaptation, becoming chaotic systems that understand that a new existing relationship between the human being and the territory begins to be built. Thus, the artistic representation that we propose at the level of immersion justifies the deformity of living space through human presence. In addition to the above, it is important to keep in mind that natural systems are also configured with a highly transcendent sound that allows identifying levels of tranquility and passivity that are also affected by human presence. That is why simultaneously with the impact on the visual transformation of digitally represented natural environments, there is also a deformity in the way sound is interpreted, in our case we represent it through an oscillation that generates an attentive listening of the relationship between the spatiality of the human being and the spatiality of the natural environment, thus creating a sound deformity that goes hand in hand with the implications of the human being in the natural territory. Raised in this way, our work focuses critically on the human presence in natural environments, showing how even his own presence can become a playful way of understanding reality.


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