»CORPOREAL ABSTRACTIONS - MICROPORTRAIT« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Berlot
Keywords
Information
Uršula Berlot >
»CORPOREAL ABSTRACTIONS - MICROPORTRAIT«, 2019 - 2020
Co-Workers & Funding:
Prof. dr. Sašo Šturm, dr. Matejka Podlogar, Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana – Department for Nanostructured Materials (microscopy), Lovrenc Košenina (3D modelling), Makplast d.o.o., Municipal Gallery Nova GoricaVacuum formed plexi-glass, light projection Series (6): Tooth, Eyelash, Skin, Hair, Tooth v.2, Nail Dim: 80 x 90 cm (each)
http://www.ursulaberlot.com/?avada_portfolio=corporeal-abstractions-microportrait-2019-2020
Technology
Hardware
Scanning Electron MicroscopyMaterial
plexi-glass, projected lightMethod
CNC technology, vacuum forming technologySoftware
Gatan Digital Micrograph software, 3D digital modeling
Descriptions & Essays
Uršula Berlot 20-04-2020
This series of relief light-sensitive works was conceived on the basis of computer-modified microscopic images of particles of the artist’s body by inverse fast Fourier digital transformation (IFFT), with the help of computer programmes used in microscopy. This is why the fragments of micro structures, despite the seeming naturalism indicated by the titles of particular works, are not the magnification of ‘the natural’, but algorithmically coded images, an artificial product of the digital software. Transparent or reflecting surfaces are dynamized by light effects and the fluctuating, subjective perception of the observer in time and space.
– Uršula Berlot, 2020
‘The relief transparent pictures were created on the basis of microscopic images processed with special software used in microscopy to analyse the structure of materials and crystals. The software copies the recorded images into an inverted, reciprocal space and generates new images using certain filters. The result is a double metamorphosis since the filters reduce the amount of data captured in the original image, from which the software then generates a new image. The new image is similar to the original, but it is created artificially, digitally. This opens an immensely broad semantic field of multi-layered references, be they references to the duality of mimesis and technologically generated reality or to the question of reality in this day and age, when the boundary between image/simulation and original is becoming increasingly blurred.' - Tomislav Vignjevi?, Bodyscope, 2020 (excerpt)
Uršula Berlot: CORPOREAL ABSTRACTIONS - MICROPORTRAIT, 20-04-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art This series of relief light-sensitive works was conceived on the basis of computer-modified microscopic images of particles of the artist’s body by inverse fast Fourier digital transformation (IFFT), with the help of computer programmes used in microscopy. This is why the fragments of micro structures, despite the seeming naturalism indicated by the titles of particular works, are not the magnification of ‘the natural’, but algorithmically coded images, an artificial product of the digital software. Transparent or reflecting surfaces are dynamized by light effects and the fluctuating, subjective perception of the observer in time and space.
– Uršula Berlot, 2020
‘The relief transparent pictures were created on the basis of microscopic images processed with special software used in microscopy to analyse the structure of materials and crystals. The software copies the recorded images into an inverted, reciprocal space and generates new images using certain filters. The result is a double metamorphosis since the filters reduce the amount of data captured in the original image, from which the software then generates a new image. The new image is similar to the original, but it is created artificially, digitally. This opens an immensely broad semantic field of multi-layered references, be they references to the duality of mimesis and technologically generated reality or to the question of reality in this day and age, when the boundary between image/simulation and original is becoming increasingly blurred.' - Tomislav Vignjevi?, Bodyscope, 2020 (excerpt)
Literature
Vignjević Tomislav. »Insight into body matter – Bodyfraction by Uršula Berlot.« Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica (2020).
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