Absences

Isolation. Rejection. Adaptation. Evolution. Things exist because of their limits, their difference, but also especially because of their relation with other things.

Is it the social nature of human that makes loneliness so fascinating? History is made of gatherings, contracts, exchanges and communication. Seclusion from the group makes one weaker and puts him at risk. Nevertheless, isn't there a vital part of our inner self that only asks for a space of solitude?

Absences is a public intervention project that involves electronic objects interacting with nature. Taking shape the frontier of new media and land art, it proposes a meditation on solitude and association, interaction and adaptation, natural and artificial, biological and inanimate.

Each intervention involves different species of objects with specific characteristics:

1. their ability to interact (such as sensors, light-emitting diodes, speakerphones, remote communication via infrared signal or radio antenna)
2. their intentions and needs ("seek light", "avoid noise", "attract insects", "communicate with fellow objects")
3. their strategies and behaviors (parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, cooperation, competition)
4. their complexity (axis reflex, adaptive intelligence, social mechanics)