SYNAPTIC CAGUAMAS BY RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER - ADA

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- real-time
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- Installation
  - augmented reality
  - interactive installation
  - mixed reality
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - virtual reality
    - 360° virtual walktrough
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
  - Computer performance
  - Happening
  - multimedia performance
  - sound performance
  - video performance
- robotics
- Telematic Art
subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
  - anthropology
  - archaeology
  - artificial intelligence
  - astronomy
  - biology
  - botany
  - cartography
  - code
  - combinatorics
  - cyberspace
  - database
  - documentation
  - emergence
  - evidence
  - experiment
  - geography
  - geometry
  - history of science
  - humanities
  - library
  - light
  - machine
  - mathematic
  - medicine
  - microscopy
  - nanotechnology
  - neuroscience
  - philosophy
  - physics
  - psychology
  - Representation of knowledge
  - research
  - science
  - scientific image
  - space
  - statistics
  - stereoscope
- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
  - allegory
  - animation
  - architecture
  - art history
  - art market
  - artistic invention
  - beauty
  - cinema
  - Concept Art
  - conservation
  - dance
  - expanded cinema
  - fashion
  - gaze
  - grid
  - illusion
  - image
  - literature
  - mask
  - materiality
  - mirror
  - model
  - museum
  - music
  - nude
  - panopticon
  - panorama
  - personification
  - perspective
  - poetry
  - projection
  - representation
  - shadow
  - sketch
  - spectator
  - symbolism
  - theatre
  - Theory
    - complexity
    - media theory
    - modernism
    - postmodernism
    - poststructuralism
    - semiotics
    - simulacrum
  - virtuality
  - visual culture
- BODY AND HUMAN
  - agency
  - anatomy
  - body
  - breathing
  - cybersex
  - cyborg
  - death
  - disease
  - dream
  - embodiment
  - empathy
  - expression
  - eye
  - facial expression
  - fantasy
  - feeling
    - affect
    - emotion
  - gender
  - genetics
  - gesture
  - hand
  - human
  - identity
  - intimacy
  - movement
  - pain
  - perception
  - performativity
  - physiognomy
  - posthuman
  - self awareness
  - senses
  - sexuality
  - skin
  - speech
  - surgery
- HISTORY AND MEMORY
  - ancestor
  - antiquity
  - archive
  - artifacts
  - collective memory
  - colonialism
  - cultural heritage
  - historical site
  - historism
  - history
  - meme
  - memorial
  - modern era
  - nostalgia
  - postcolonialism
  - preservation
  - romanticism
  - teleology
  - tradition
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
  - access
  - advertising
  - Big Data
  - broadcast
  - commerce
  - communication
  - electronic media
  - error message
  - fiction
  - film
  - global village
  - hypertext
  - information
  - intermediality
  - internet
  - language
  - media archaeology
  - open source
  - print media
  - radio
  - search engine
  - social media
  - storytelling
  - telecommunication
  - telephone
  - television
  - video surveillance
  - visualisation
  - writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
  - agriculture
  - animal
  - anthropocentrism
  - atmosphere
  - catastrophe
  - DNA
  - earth
  - ecosystem/ecology
  - energy
  - environment
  - evolution
  - four elements
  - geology
  - global warming
  - globe
  - landscape
  - magnetism
  - nature
  - ocean
  - outer space
  - physical law
  - plant
  - pollution
  - sustainability
  - vegetation
  - water
  - weather
- POWER AND POLITICS
  - authority
  - banking
  - censorship
  - conspiracy
  - democracy
  - discrimination
  - economy
  - equality
  - geopolitics
  - governance
  - heroism
  - human rights
  - imperialism
  - institution
  - law
  - manipulation
  - market
  - military
  - nationalism
  - patriarchy
  - politics
  - sovereignty
  - surveillance
  - terrorism
  - violence
  - warfare
- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
  - afterlife
  - alchemy
  - bible
  - church
  - creation
  - crucifixion
  - esoterism
  - exodus
  - heretic
  - legend
  - mysticism
  - myth
  - mythological creature
  - mythology
  - paradise
  - religion
    - buddhism
    - christianity
    - islam
    - judaism
  - ritual
  - sacrifice
  - Saint
  - sin
  - spirituality
  - vision
  - worship
- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  - activism
  - capitalism
    - surveillance-capitalism
  - civilisation
  - community
  - consumption
  - counterculture
  - digital identity
  - diversity
  - ethnicity
  - feminism
  - food
  - globalization
  - individuality
  - information society
  - interculturalism
  - mass
  - mass culture
    - entertainment
    - parody
    - phantasmagoria
    - popular culture
    - spectacle
  - migration
  - minority
  - morality
  - native
  - otherness
  - participation
  - poverty
  - privacy
  - racism
  - territory
  - unemployment
  - urban space
  - voyeurism
  - wealth
  - working class
- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
  - artificial intelligence
  - artificial life
  - biocomputer
  - blockchain
  - cybernetics
  - development
  - digitization
  - electricity
  - emulation
  - engineering
  - history of technology
  - innovation
  - intelligent environment
  - invention
  - mechanics
  - military technology
  - mobility
  - nonhuman communication
  - optics
  - product design
  - production
  - robot
  - simulation
  - supercomputing
  - technophobia
  - telematics
  - telepresence
Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - dome
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
    - Head-up Display
    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
    - light-emitting diode
    - lightbox
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - Virtual Workbench
  - Virtuscope
  - webcam
- Interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - Speech Recognition
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
    - Voice User Interface (VUI)
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - robotic interfaces
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer >

»Synaptic Caguamas«, 2004 - 2004

Co-Workers & Funding:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer — concept, direction
Conroy Badger — programming
Will Bauer, Sandra Badger, Karl-Erik Riesach, Peggy Strong, Robyn Badger, Jennifer Laughlin, Denis Sulivan, Olav Kahlbaum, OMR Gallery (Mexico) — production supportPrivate collections and FEMSA collection in Monterrey, Mexico

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/english/projects/synapticcaguamas.htm

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - »Synaptic Caguamas«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/synaptic-caguamas.html (retrieved 2010-08-11). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - »Synaptic Caguamas«}, url = {https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/synaptic-caguamas.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2010-08-11}

Technology

Display

Year of Creation: 2004
Technique: Glass bottles on motorized wooden table, PC running algorithms that simulate neuronal activity.
Dimensions: 87 x 210 x 180 cm. Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Keywords: generative, indoor, robotic, sound, performer.
Collections: Colección Femsa (Monterrey), Jonathon Carroll Collection (NYC) and private collector.

Descriptions & Essays

Synaptic Caguamas is a kinetic sculpture consisting of a motorized Mexican “cantina” bar table with 30 “Caguama”-sized beer bottles (1-litre each). The bottles spin on the table with patterns generated by cellular automata algorithms that simulate the neuronal connections in the brain. Every few minutes the bottles are reset automatically and seeded with new initial conditions for the algorithm, so that the movement patterns are never repeated. This kinetic sculpture is a primitive and absurd attempt to make tangible the mathematics of recollection and thought. (Photos by Antimodular Research)

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