10 years 10 days 10 projects
Galerie àDuplex, 9 rue des Amis, 1201 Geneva
from 26 September to 5 October
Free admission from 2pm to 8pm
The Maszkowicz 103 exhibition offers a retrospective of a decade of Daniel Maszkowicz’s artistic practice, a practice that constantly situates and develops itself on the boundary between the arts and sciences. The exhibition comprises three interactive installations with sensory effects and seven collaborative performances. In addition, it features a number of videos and sound pieces that will be streamed continuously by means of a display system that invites visitors to take a look. Presented over 10 days, the exhibition is primarily conceived as a journey through sources of inspiration, creative processes and their singular and sometimes zany results. It is also a celebration of the sharing and exchange that form the multiverse at the heart of the artist’s creation and of the human being with multiple personalities.
Daniel Maszkowicz is a power electronics research engineer, independent film curator, multidisciplinary performance artist, composer and producer. As a sound artist he develops and implements devices for manipulating electrical signals and electromagnetic fields with a variety of unusual analogue feedback and sensors. In particular, he uses now obsolete laboratory instruments, synthesisers and other effects machines, sometimes with noisy Tesla coils. Studying psychoacoustic and binaural effects on consciousness in a qualitative way, he works on sound algorithms for various broadcasting methods and installations and experiments with data sonification using Python and SuperCollider in an approach that leaves room for expression for both the scientist and the artist.
Installations
One aspect that particularly interests me in audiovisual installations is the tactile interactive aspect, with the possibility of influencing the soundtrack or the visual aspect. A child standing in front of one of my installations should instinctively be able to activate its actions, either by shaking whatever is within reach, by turning the knobs on the machines, or by waving their hand. This interactivity is also reflected in the concept of feedback, which consists of looping the output of a system to its own input. This technique enables a kind of parallelisation of several processes that feed off each other. I’m thinking particularly of the double installation Mycorrhiza, where the feedback, although digital and algorithmic, results in unpredictable, even chaotic, and therefore organic effects. The person interacting with these installations is part of the system as a chaotic process in its own right, which causes the algorithms to act, but whose actions are also influenced by the results.
Mycorrhiza
digital symbiosis between the sonic tree and the mycelial sporophore
Osciktowicz
hypnotic immersion device with primitive electronics
Liquid Cast
algorithmic audiovisual play with the Robert Turner Collective
+ display of several video and sound pieces
Events and collaborative performances
TH 26 – 5pm Exhibition opening
presentation of the installations
FR 27 – 7pm SparK-O-WicZ
electromagnetism with Flo Kaufmann aka Flozkicare
SA 28 – 7pm Influut
electroacoustic post-jazz improv with Nat Cilia
SU 29 – 7pm Kosmosmonium & Synkie
audiovisual immersion with [ a n y m a ]
MO 30 – 2pm-8pm Guided tours
presentation of the installations
TU 1 – 2pm-8pm Biblioteq Mdulair
sound massage sessions with Emma Souharce
WE 2 – 7pm Dactylogos
performative installation with Antón de Macedo
TH 3 – 7pm Wikitractatus ad Terras Sonoras
immersive reading with André Ourednik
FR 4 7pm The Hanged Man
body and sound performance by Maszkowicz
SA 5 7pm Exhibition finissage
presentation of the latest data sonification projects
With the kind support from “Ville de Genève” and “la Loterie Romande“
Silkprint poster artwork design by Thomas Perrodin
