Amor Muñoz
Hybrida
What are the characteristics of life? When can one say that a piece of matter has biological functions? Amor Muñoz’s project Hybrida experiments with the conditions for the rise of new biological forms to reflect on “the living” in the present. Through artifacts, the artist connects a series of nodes between biology, technology and computer science to create a new tissue based on interconnected technical and living processes.
The exhibition consists of three sound biosculptures that host a variety of organisms (bacteria and yeast colonies), whose survival involves a process of constant fermentation. This metabolic activity is transformed into electronic data through the use of sensors and is then expressed through a sound piece composed of gastric and intestinal noises. These audio stimuli express organic processes, mediated by a technical sensibility.
The bacterial membranes within each glass stomach have been inserted with radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips that assign them a digital identity. The presence of each one of these Hybridas in the exhibition space implies a projection of the human: through its biological activity, the sounds mediated by computer language and its bodily presence and architecture, the project evokes a “cyborg being,” sketching out a possible future that, no matter how far-off it may seem, is already here in potentiality.
Hybrida is a project sponsored by the UNAM Department of Cultural Promotion and forms part of El Aleph Science and Art Festival.
Artista: Amor Muñoz (Mexico City, 1979)
Curators: Cuauhtémoc Medina, Jaime González Solís
Publicación
Publication
Amor Muñoz
Authors : Cuauhtémoc Medina, Amor Muñoz
Language : Spanish & English
Editor: MUAC, UNAM/RM
Price: $150
