Arash Akbari is a transdisciplinary artist, based in Tehran, Iran. His interest in dynamic art systems, human perception, nonlinear narrative, and the co-existence between physical and digital worlds compelled him to explore the fields of generative systems, interaction design, and real-time processing. He examines the ways interactive cybernetic systems and their emergent behaviors can evoke concepts, ideas, and questions as well as social and emotional responses and impacts. Akbari directs his experimental practices into audio-visual performances and installations, interactive applications, and multisensory experiences.
His compositions investigate experimental approaches to sound generation, field recordings, acoustic instrumentation, digital synthesis, DSP, and noise to create immersive sonic environments that explore the agency of autonomous systems, indeterminacy, memory, and the perception of time and space.
His work has been presented in different festivals and exhibitions around the world, such as Athens Digital Arts Festival, Recto VRso Festival, Mutek Forum, Simultan Festival, New Media Fest, 3D Web Fest, Cinnamon Colomboscope, Lacuna Festival, Videofenster, and Graphical Web Conference. He has released albums on Karl Records, Flaming Pines, Unknown Tone Records, Taalem, and Soft Recordings among numerous other labels.
Dromo
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Surveillance tracking technologies have become an inseparable part of our surroundings added new dimensions to the physical space. Our movements, actions, decisions are being tracked by a network of surveillance systems and are being used as fuel for creating automated decision-making machines to control and change different aspects of our individuality and society in a feedback control system.
The Beholders is a series of artworks that explores surveillance tracking algorithms as a creation tool by generating forms and compositions from the movements of tracked points in the video frames.
It reveals the autonomous, generative and spatiotemporal system of speed, human movements, and activities from the perspective of technology, machines, and AI. The sounds were generated in real-time using the same extracted data to create a synchronized and parallel score that matches the movements to sounds to create a multi-modal audio-visual system.
As a part of The Beholders, DROMO is a metaphorical take on P. Virilio's concept of speed and accident in a technological post-modern society. He noted that the speed at which something happens may change its essential nature. So the speed of transmission and computation has changed our perception of politics, the economy, our cities, and ourselves.
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