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Jaanis Garancs
parallel[land]scapes

In my recent works I use stereoscopic photography (and sometimes video) overlayed with abstract real-time computer graphics. The work "Parallelscapes" uses interactive stereoscopic projection and offers views of natural landscapes, urban environments and people in various situations (in night club, at dinner table, in a car) - interwoven in pulsating "hybride tissues", constituted by metaphysical code. In these synthetic "landscapes", the eyes of the viewer participate in imaginary "surgery on space", travelling between endo- and ultra-perspective of situations. The work emphasizes the idea about multi-layered structure of the "fabric of reality" and may hint that the visible reality, its technological represention and mapping, human inner experience of space, diffuses into a paradoxical composite image. http://cellulae.x-i.net/scapes

Artist Bio

Jaanis Garancs

After studies at the Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga/Latvia; Royal University of Fine Art in Stockholm/Sweden and Germany (MFA 2003 at the Academy of Media Arts   - KHM - Cologne) continues in areas of interactive multi-media installations, Virtual Reality, Internet and cultural network projects.

Participations with exhibitions, projects, lectures in many international events - Ars Electronica (1997,1998,2002) - Linz/Austria; EXPO2000 - Hanover/Germany; ISEA2004 Helsinki/Finland; DEAF04, Rotterdam/the Netherlands; Transmediale, Berlin/Germany - and venues such as Kiasma, Helsinki/Finland; SAT, Montreal/Canada; BNMI - Banff/Canada, ICA - London/UK - among others.

Recent solo and collaborative works -- interactive and networked installations, featuring synthetic urban landscapes, geo-encoded and location-aware media - manifested in audiovisually intensive stereoscopic 3D projections and multi-channel audio, touch up with concepts of contemporary theoretical physics, communication and evolution theories.   Another artistic research focus is multi-media "performance", using self-developed "VR instruments" - virtual multimedia interfaces. Main aspects are exploration of the extremes of audiovisual perception, artificial synaesthesia, crossing of sensory pathways and treating immersive environments as place and tool for aesthetic experiments.
www.Garancs.net


 
   
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