Saša Spačal: Light reader

ave you ever wondered what would be like to listen to light or even play with it?

29 July 2020 | 5 – 9pm @ osmo/za, Ljubljana

Participants will build a Light Reader – a simple physical interface to trigger sound with light. It consists of a mechanical part that allows light control with perforated discs, and an electronic part, an integrated circuit that generates sound according to the light signal’s duration and intensity.

The technological principles applied in the Light Reader were developed for and applied in the biotechnological sound art installation Mycophone_unison (2013) authored by Saša Spačal, Mirjan Švagelj and Anil Podgornik.

Mentor

Saša Spačal is a postmedia artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her work focuses primarily on the posthuman condition, where human beings exist and act as one of many elements in the ecosystem and not as sovereigns. Therefore abandoning the Cartesian system of classification and accepting the fact that the field of technology has expanded not only from hardware to software but also to wetware resulting in hybrid phenomena inscribed in mechanical, digital and organic logic.
Her work was exhibited and performed at venues and festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Prix Cube Exhibition (FR), Transmediale Festival (DE), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural Center Athens (GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Eyebeam (USA), Cynetart Festival (DE), National Art Museum of China (CHN), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (SI), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Device_art (CRO), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE), Kiblix Festival (SI), Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje (SI), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (SRB), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sonica Festival (SI). Her works received awards and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica Starts Prize, Japan Media Art Award, Prix Cube, New Technology Art Award and New Aesthetica Prize.

Saša Spačal

How to apply

Workshop is free of charge, please apply to delavnice@projekt-atol.si.

Production

Organised by Projekt Atol.

The workshop is part of konS:: Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.
konS:: Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art is a project chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.