ARBASOAK [ancestree] / 2021 / 37 min (variable)

Two artists and researchers, Martin Etxauri Sainz de Murieta aka Txo! (audiovisual and new media) and Xabier Erkizia (sound art and listening culture), will meet at the Mirador of the Museum to create a live work. The field they have chosen for their intervention is the secret life of machines. The simile between machines and human bodies may be inevitable in order to understand the functioning and imagine the autonomy of the former. The artists point out: "we have even come to accept that these mechanical bodies also sweat, even if it is electromagnetically". They will seek to "make that inner life of the machines audible and visible, and turn the intimacy of their whispers and cries into light and shadows.

Installation realized in the Pantalla de Sol of Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, within the SmartPlaces program. Loop of generative video programmed in Processing.

Interactive piece created in collaboration with BikoLabs for the 30th Anniversary Exhibition of the UPNA. This installation transforms the student data of the last 30 years into a human figure, formed by points (data) that related and joined together, create a meta-visualization of a liquid being that represents all the individualities of the student body.

Ignis Fatuus is a system to liquefy the body to flames. It is a transmuting mechanism to which I give parts of my being and turns them into ignis fatuus (will-o'-the-wisp), beings that populate the space between the spectator and me, ephemeral existences in the here and now of the factual ritual that is this work.

The design of the boxes for Beruta is created with the technique of "generative graphics":
Instead of making a certain design with a graphic design program such as Illustrator or Freehand, what is done is to use the programming, in this case with Processing, to establish some fixed parameters, some random parameters and standards or conditions to which the design should be adjusted. When launching the program, the randomness expressed within the established parameters will create the different designs, each being unique and unrepeatable.

In this case, for example, it was programmed to create X number of stripes and circles leaving right and left. The logo of the fish and the wave should be included in the first circle that was created with a minimum size so that it was not too small. The circles had to be measured within a particular fork, the stripes were not to exceed measurements and the two points at the ends of the stripes had a maximum height difference. And in addition to all this, many other rules that must be established for the design to be within what we want to achieve.

Instalation presented at“La Habitación 1: T.A.Z. (Zona Temporalmente Autónoma)”. Huarte's Contemporary Art Centre. February, 2017.

This work is born from a course of generative graphic that imparted Alba G. Corral.

A project like Elurmaluta in which one of the important axes is the use and experimentation of technology and new media, could not have an ordinary logo.

Audiovisual improvisation in the "Festival of Nations". Teatro Gayarre, Pamplona, December 3, 2016.

Audiovisual performance presented in TE017T. Center of Contemporary Art of Huarte. January 3, 2017.

Audiovisual mapping within the project "Hormek Diote" integrated in Donostia 2016 European Cultural Capital. Donostia, July 28, 2016.
After that it was projected in several movie theaters within the program "Hormek Diote Zinera".

From the roots of sound  digital landscapes are born, unfathomable and timeless spaces that are transformed to the frenetic rhythm of beats. Trajectories marked by synthesizers that are extinguished in cliffs redrawn by waves that converge to mark their vertices. On the horizon a convulsive sun marks the rhythms of a world in constant evolution.