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TERRAFORMA
Terraforming is the process that shapes a planet atmosphere and surface to support life. In this new territory there is a mutual adaptation: the community gradually rewrites its genetic and cultural codes around the updated ecological circumstances, developing a story radically divergent from its home world.
Terraforma is an experimental music festival, where sound acts as a gravitational centre: our experiences and thoughts orbit it, following paths drowned on a common ground or suspended in solitary contemplation. Sound comes and go as a summer storm, naturally orienting life on twisted, unforeseen paths.
Terraforma lasts 3 days and 3 nights, dissolving in the breath of dawns and sunsets the linearity of time, where our experience extends and contracts in harmony with the environment. Since the beginning in the year 2014 we have involved artists developing a natural frequency of music, echoing in their performances the depth and permanence of the listening.
Terraforma has its roots in Villa Arconati and the surrounding woods, where a sustainable production supports a reconstruction and innovation plan for the local ecology and architecture. From the camping area to the 17th century maze we develop an overlay of ancient, contemporary and imaginary spaces where our memories weave and flourish.
Since 2014, a different artist has been involved for the visual identity of Terraforma. Following our collaboration with Ignazio Mortellaro, Luca Trevisani, Francesco Cavaliere and Emanuele Marcuccio and Nathalie Du Pasquier, this year's choice is TCF. Lars Holdhus is a Norwegian born artist and musician who deals with language, codes, infrastrastructure and ecology. Influenced by code, cryptography and self-referential complex systems, his approach to his practice and art-making in general is not in communication but an in-depth investigation that strives towards a goal of making its own system - often one that is self-referential, or an inversion of signs and signifiers that folds or collapse back in on themselves.
"The artwork created for the festival is made from photos I've taken travelling, foraging, mushroom hunting and spending time out in nature. I tried to reflect my current contrasting reality of having my artistic practice based on software while I've have been spending more and more time out in nature.Negotiating what role technology should have in your life. The photos gets processed by TCFX and creates a feedback loop that I incorporate into my practice. TCFX algorithmically processes the images using a wide variety of image processing techniques. It generated around 50000 images which I spent a few days sorting and selecting from. It's like creating a forest of images and then going into the forest foraging what you need. "
The artwork of Terraforma 2020 is the result of a collaboration between Studio Temp and Daniel Sansavini.
Terraforming is the process that shapes a planet atmosphere and surface to support life. In this new territory there is a mutual adaptation: the community gradually rewrites its genetic and cultural codes around the updated ecological circumstances, developing a story radically divergent from its home world.
Terraforma is an experimental music festival, where sound acts as a gravitational centre: our experiences and thoughts orbit it, following paths drowned on a common ground or suspended in solitary contemplation. Sound comes and go as a summer storm, naturally orienting life on twisted, unforeseen paths.
Terraforma lasts 3 days and 3 nights, dissolving in the breath of dawns and sunsets the linearity of time, where our experience extends and contracts in harmony with the environment. Since the beginning in the year 2014 we have involved artists developing a natural frequency of music, echoing in their performances the depth and permanence of the listening.
Terraforma has its roots in Villa Arconati and the surrounding woods, where a sustainable production supports a reconstruction and innovation plan for the local ecology and architecture. From the camping area to the 17th century maze we develop an overlay of ancient, contemporary and imaginary spaces where our memories weave and flourish.
Since 2014, a different artist has been involved for the visual identity of Terraforma. Following our collaboration with Ignazio Mortellaro, Luca Trevisani, Francesco Cavaliere and Emanuele Marcuccio and Nathalie Du Pasquier, this year's choice is TCF. Lars Holdhus is a Norwegian born artist and musician who deals with language, codes, infrastrastructure and ecology. Influenced by code, cryptography and self-referential complex systems, his approach to his practice and art-making in general is not in communication but an in-depth investigation that strives towards a goal of making its own system - often one that is self-referential, or an inversion of signs and signifiers that folds or collapse back in on themselves.
"The artwork created for the festival is made from photos I've taken travelling, foraging, mushroom hunting and spending time out in nature. I tried to reflect my current contrasting reality of having my artistic practice based on software while I've have been spending more and more time out in nature.Negotiating what role technology should have in your life. The photos gets processed by TCFX and creates a feedback loop that I incorporate into my practice. TCFX algorithmically processes the images using a wide variety of image processing techniques. It generated around 50000 images which I spent a few days sorting and selecting from. It's like creating a forest of images and then going into the forest foraging what you need. "
The artwork of Terraforma 2020 is the result of a collaboration between Studio Temp and Daniel Sansavini.
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