Izzy
*Food for Thought* (2020)
MP4
1920x1440


The central role of data in questions about the body takes a fantastic path in this sci-fi loop by Izzy. With an acute vision of the industrial dimension of an intangible product as data, this artist applies videogame aesthetics to express where he thinks things are going. Modified bodies are created to excavate data, deformed by working, and converted into animals that are fed with information. There is flying hardware everywhere, and the only sign of human life seems to be the blood on the floor.


Mounted as a film scene with a subjective camera, various elements situate the scenario in Asia: a sign indicating the way to Kasir, a mural with different kinds of heroes that could be part of a Bollywood movie, a Chinese-style temple, etc. It is not difficult to guess why he situated this fiction there, since that is where all technology devices are produced, most of the time at the expense of the workers. The frenetic track that mixes Indian rhythm, microtonal music, and an industrial beat depicts the same situation: the souls are possessed by machines. The work points out how far the industry is prepared to go in its quest to obtain and commercialize data and how this is transforming humanity. The history of globalization is combined with advances in genetic science as contemporary processes that mark us culturally. And this mysterious combination results in a rich field to imagine and speculate about our future.


This journey around the themes proposed by the artworks reveals similar concerns with very different approaches. With more or less emphasis on how these changes, worries, and fears sound, in every case the audio gives us clues or ideas about the reflections they propose. The exercise of listening can allow us to get into their worlds and embody the act of thinking.

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The sounds of mutation have been emitted, going fast and far through syntactic, decentralized, and distributed structures. The signal was heard from the part of the world connected to the net (now 63%, increasing). Now, bodies are changing because there is no such thing as a mind: in the end, there are only bodies. When we think, we do it physically; the act of seeing or listening goes through our body; and the same happens when we try to recall, wonder or understand.


To remember our bodies and imagine their drift is an exercise that gets more dizzying and challenging as the virtual layer of experience grows. To make it sound is to create a record in some place between the mess and the order of this process of increasing abstraction, while we feel the mutation or simply get used to it.


This second part of *Sounds of Mutation* expands its proposal to various regions and focuses on the sonorous image that this wide art scene is constructing between the body and the feel of mutating. Hoping that this audio landscape and its relationship with the visual image will give us a chance to think about time with the ear.

Sounds of Mutation part 2

Six pieces as ways of thinking body drift with the ear.

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