“Panning Time & Space” investigates our dependency on digital technology to enhance the experiences of our daily life, and explores how these digital artifacts affect our perceptions of the physical world. This piece reflects the artist’s interest in the impact of anthropocentric alteration and replication on the aesthetics of nature, taking as its departure point source materials collected during a trip to Iceland (images of landscapes and field recordings captured with a high-frame-rate video camera and sensitive microphone), which are then processed in real time through bespoke software designed by the artist, before being released into the space by a projector and loudspeakers.

Participants are invited to interact with the installation’s audio and visual content, by moving their hands above the motion and gesture sensor, which acts as a bridge between the physical and virtual realms, generating glimpses into newly formed composite realities on both temporal and spatial levels.

The images undergo transformations both subtle and marked, according to the nature of hand movements, from a few lines of shifted pixels to entire frames of altered video. In contrast to the common perspective of sensing space through a full picture, the spatial contexts are instead experienced here as time, through repetition and developments.

The unseen sounds are placed in the virtual space in fixed positions, which are accessible and deducible through experimentation with the placement of different hand positions. Unlike a continuous listening experience in a certain timeframe, the sonic components become tangible as particles forming in space. 

Adam Basanta is a Montreal-based sound artist, composer, and performer. His work traverses sound installations, experimental electronic composition, site-specific interventions, and laptop performance. Across disciplines and media, he interrogates intersections between conceptual and sensorial dimensions of listening, the materiality of technological apparatus, and the instabilities of instrumentality. His sound installations, concert music, and performance have been presented in internationally in galleries, festivals, and institutions, and have been awarded several international prizes. 

Aloïs Yang, born in 1986 Dax, France, raised in Taiwan, now based in Berlin, is a sound artist and interaction designer who produces work that explores the relation and interaction among people, sound, and the external world. His work is influenced both by scientific reference and human imperfection of understanding the nature. He overcomes the separation of art forms and genres with an integrated creative approach. He uses a wide range of media, from interactive installation to fictional story telling videos and live audiovisual performance. His work crafts a journey with open endings to both artist and audience. Where the interactions take place not just in objective reality, but also intimate experience and imaginative projection. These includes traveling among subjects such as brain function, facial expression, starlight and apocalypse.