On 11th and 12th June, PLANTA’s facilities will host the artwork “CALL OUT”, by Abel Korinsky & Orhan Kavrakogl, which was recently awarded the ISEA2022 Barcelona scholarship offered by the Sorigué Foundation, as part of the ISEA2022 — 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art.
This is an immersive installation that questions the growing presence of satellites that orbit Earth and build a large network to virtually connect the world. The work creates a light field using LED tubes and surrounds visitors with real-time, constantly-changing 3D light.
Visits to “CALL OUT” must be booked in advance via this link and they include the usual tour of the different artistic spaces that make up PLANTA.
To show us how this affects one of the world’s greatest shared commodities: outer space.
About the ISEA2022 scholarship
The Sorigué Foundation has awarded one of the five scholarships promoted by ISEA2022 Barcelona, in collaboration with NewArtFoundation and HacTe, to drive production and research in artworks centred around the point where art, science and technology meet.
The artwork “CALL OUT”, chosen as the winner of this scholarship, has become part of the Foundation’s collection and is being exhibited at PLANTA as a one-off event organised as part of the ISEA international symposium.
About “CALL OUT”
“CALL OUT” is inspired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX project, which aims to place more than 11,000 satellites in our orbit by 2027.
There are ever more satellites orbiting above us, although we are barely aware of it. These devices allow for great technological advances, but still lead to many other debates with no answer. Responsibility, property, data collection and communication monitoring are some of the topics on which the artists reflect.
The purpose of “CALL OUT” is to emphasise human responsibility for technology through an immersive audio-visual installation. Through light fields generated by LED tubes, visitors will be able to experience the real-time presence of satellites from their location, tracked via GPS.
The transient nature and physical beauty of the light patterns mixes with tri-dimensional sound to transport the audience to outer space and blur the lines between reality and illusion.
The work has been exhibited as a projection at the Aaran Gallery (Tehran), and in physical format at Bozar (Brussels Palace of Fine Art) and at the Bulgarian water festival.
The transient nature and physical beauty of the light patterns mixes with tri-dimensional sound to transport the audience to outer space and blur the lines between reality and illusion.
The work has been exhibited as a projection at the Aaran Gallery (Tehran), and in physical format at Bozar (Brussels Palace of Fine Art) and at the Bulgarian water festival.
