Atacama Garden (2021) presents a universe of works based on the cosmological, cultural and astronomical site of Atacama Desert.
1.
Atacama Garden (unplugged)
Music Performance
2.
Networked
Digital simulation and live CCTV broadcast from ALMA Observatory
3.
Chajnantor - Place of Departure
Video
Curated by Christl Baur - Head of Ars Electronica Festival
Atacama Garden (unplugged)
Photography by Max Donoso
ATACAMA GARDEN (unplugged) is a music performance by
Samuel Domínguez
Total duration: 22 minutes
It uses Andean woodwind instruments and electronic music composed using astronomic data of the Orion constellation, obtained from the observatories in Atacama Desert.
Commissioned by Museo de Arte Contemporáneo / MAC Parque Forestal
in the context of the Chilean participation at the Ars Electronica Festival
Performed by Francisca Bascuñán and Conjunto Yacktamari
Astronomical Sound Data by Ricardo Finger
Sound Mixing by Olaf Peña
Atacama Garden (unplugged)
Photography by Max Donoso
Networked uses live access to one CCTV camera at ALMA Observatory with a digital simulation reacting to the weather and light shifts in real time. The digital sculpture is an LED monolith that shows words that have been used by Europeans to describe the landscape of the north of Chile.
Total duration: seven days
Design by Ming Rang Bai
Photography © D. Schreiner and S. Degezelle/ESO with artist intervention by Samuel Domínguez
Atacama Garden
Ars Electronica Festival
Live CCTV broadcast with digital animation
In collaboration with ALMA Observatory
Chajnantor - Place of Departure is a collaboration between Elisa Guillaume and Samuel Domínguez, a commissioned video based on the Chajnantor plateau, the place where ALMA Observatory is located in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile.
Created with pre-recorded footage (courtesy of ALMA), the video immerses the audience into the bleak landscape of Atacama. By combining images of the Desert and Mars together through digital techniques, the work seeks to question our relationship with nature within the context of the digital revolution.
The narration was written collaboratively between Guillaume, Domínguez, and a text-based artificial intelligence algorithm.
Finally, the video uses a musical interpretation composed by Olaf Peña Pastene, making use of data from the Orion Constellation obtained by astronomer Ricardo Finger.
