Media:
Submission for the publication “Potato” by Potato press and the publisher mul-thee-funhjk-shuh-nl.
Design in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.
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What are the differences between reflection and diffraction?
This experimental zine explores both thought processes using book drawings, conversational writing and hole punching on the pages.
The Digesting Care publication was developed for the EU Commission project Taking Care by Museum Volkenkunde in the Netherlands. It is a static website written by a Python script that takes the content written in markdown and makes it HTML using Pandoc. The website interface filters the content based on a question generated by a small set of parameters. These are defined by us digesting the concepts and unsolved topics of the conference. The website was developed by experimenting with the idea of resilient web design and web-to-print techniques. We printed an edition of 120 copies of 50 different publications.
Text taken from Louisa’s Website
EARTHRISE × Zhouwéi Network is a location-based game I co-created and produced as part of my residency at Roodkapje in 2021. As an extension of my research into geocaching as a game tool, I set up a collaboration between MaMA and Roodkapje, inviting the research duo Liminal Vision to co-imagine this hybrid format in relation to their work Zhouwéi Network. In this inspiring effort, we opened up portals in different locations in Rotterdam, where stories from characters of Zhouwéi Network could be found, iterating life in the future on the various locations based on three potential future societies. For this project, I imagined an alphabet in which symbols correspond to syllables, which can be read by players into code words, using an in-game dictionary. The alphabet was designed by Camilo Garcia Aycardi, based on the aesthetics of the three different societies of Zhouwéi Network.
Pictures taken from the projects page.
Visual system, graphic design and publication design for Ether-axis project and the exhibition From Then to Here by Erik Peters.
EtherAxis is the result of an ongoing collaboration between me (Camilo García A.), Emilia Tapprest, Erik Peters, Federico Poni, Louisa Teichmann & Victor Evink, as part of the Hamburger Community of Live & Art trajectory of Roodkapje. With the participation of Queer Arcana as performers.
Exhibition Pictures taken from Erik Peters.
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Sketchbook experiments,
or conversations between digital and analog mediums,
Yes, better that. I like conversations.
Incense clock design for the film Scent of Time, inspired by the fifth worlds developed in the project Ether Axis. This iteration in design is made to be drawing as a single line.
Space between particles is an installation that proposes a dialogue between organic forms, natural elements and geometric constructions seeking to reflect —using as metaphors the ideas of particle and network— on the relationship of beings in their environment.
The project was born and configured in the space as one of the many possibilities where the relationship between being/particle and context/network can make structural sense. Through resources of drawing, painting, sculpture and color, each piece of the installation proposes different physical encounters of the dialogue. Each of these tries to fend for itself, but in turn, by the very nature of the project, it becomes meaningful when viewed in relation to another. Some pieces approach concepts from rational thinking and others appear in space as contemplative scenarios loaded with questions and mystery.
What are the plastic capacities of the relationship? Can a relationship indicate, illustrate, describe, select, place, unveil, extract, dissociate, huddle, hide, dislocate the related …?
The project does not intend to answer those questions. Space between particles aims to be produced and get lost in the question. Just as the being can do it when thinking from within. A constant uncertainty.
“The Book. The Form” reflects on a fragment of the book Relational art of Nicolás Bourriaud where it is described the birth of form as Epicuro and Lucrecio did it. The project proposes, as a book, the construction of the book itself and its existence as a primary conceptual and material process.
The final result is an artist’s book that takes shape during his own process of making. In a preliminary stage the project included a book binding workshop in which it would be born as a physical object, and it would spread to others by a sharing knowlege experience, but it couldn’t happen as I planned, so the edition of the book exists but I made it by my own. This project was exhibited at La Caja Galeria in Taller Trez, as a part of the exhibition Trez con Z during Artbo Weekend in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Book:
Atoms fall parallel in the vacuum slightly diagonal,
Falling, a fortuitous detour causes an encounter with the neighbor atom.
Encounters bring clash. And with clashes,
the birth of the world.
The Form:
The world persists in form of book.
Submission for the publication “Potato” by Potato press and the publisher mul-thee-funhjk-shuh-nl.
Design in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.
<3
What are the differences between reflection and diffraction?
This experimental zine explores both thought processes using book drawings, conversational writing and hole punching on the pages.
The Digesting Care publication was developed for the EU Commission project Taking Care by Museum Volkenkunde in the Netherlands. It is a static website written by a Python script that takes the content written in markdown and makes it HTML using Pandoc. The website interface filters the content based on a question generated by a small set of parameters. These are defined by us digesting the concepts and unsolved topics of the conference. The website was developed by experimenting with the idea of resilient web design and web-to-print techniques. We printed an edition of 120 copies of 50 different publications.
Text taken from Louisa’s Website
EARTHRISE × Zhouwéi Network is a location-based game I co-created and produced as part of my residency at Roodkapje in 2021. As an extension of my research into geocaching as a game tool, I set up a collaboration between MaMA and Roodkapje, inviting the research duo Liminal Vision to co-imagine this hybrid format in relation to their work Zhouwéi Network. In this inspiring effort, we opened up portals in different locations in Rotterdam, where stories from characters of Zhouwéi Network could be found, iterating life in the future on the various locations based on three potential future societies. For this project, I imagined an alphabet in which symbols correspond to syllables, which can be read by players into code words, using an in-game dictionary. The alphabet was designed by Camilo Garcia Aycardi, based on the aesthetics of the three different societies of Zhouwéi Network.
Pictures taken from the projects page.
Visual system, graphic design and publication design for Ether-axis project and the exhibition From Then to Here by Erik Peters.
EtherAxis is the result of an ongoing collaboration between me (Camilo García A.), Emilia Tapprest, Erik Peters, Federico Poni, Louisa Teichmann & Victor Evink, as part of the Hamburger Community of Live & Art trajectory of Roodkapje. With the participation of Queer Arcana as performers.
Exhibition Pictures taken from Erik Peters.
{.mediumSketchbook experiments,
or conversations between digital and analog mediums,
Yes, better that. I like conversations.
Incense clock design for the film Scent of Time, inspired by the fifth worlds developed in the project Ether Axis. This iteration in design is made to be drawing as a single line.
Space between particles is an installation that proposes a dialogue between organic forms, natural elements and geometric constructions seeking to reflect —using as metaphors the ideas of particle and network— on the relationship of beings in their environment.
The project was born and configured in the space as one of the many possibilities where the relationship between being/particle and context/network can make structural sense. Through resources of drawing, painting, sculpture and color, each piece of the installation proposes different physical encounters of the dialogue. Each of these tries to fend for itself, but in turn, by the very nature of the project, it becomes meaningful when viewed in relation to another. Some pieces approach concepts from rational thinking and others appear in space as contemplative scenarios loaded with questions and mystery.
What are the plastic capacities of the relationship? Can a relationship indicate, illustrate, describe, select, place, unveil, extract, dissociate, huddle, hide, dislocate the related …?
The project does not intend to answer those questions. Space between particles aims to be produced and get lost in the question. Just as the being can do it when thinking from within. A constant uncertainty.
“The Book. The Form” reflects on a fragment of the book Relational art of Nicolás Bourriaud where it is described the birth of form as Epicuro and Lucrecio did it. The project proposes, as a book, the construction of the book itself and its existence as a primary conceptual and material process.
The final result is an artist’s book that takes shape during his own process of making. In a preliminary stage the project included a book binding workshop in which it would be born as a physical object, and it would spread to others by a sharing knowlege experience, but it couldn’t happen as I planned, so the edition of the book exists but I made it by my own. This project was exhibited at La Caja Galeria in Taller Trez, as a part of the exhibition Trez con Z during Artbo Weekend in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Book:
Atoms fall parallel in the vacuum slightly diagonal,
Falling, a fortuitous detour causes an encounter with the neighbor atom.
Encounters bring clash. And with clashes,
the birth of the world.
The Form:
The world persists in form of book.
Cover and back cover for Tajalapiz publication. A sketchbook collection of Bogotá artists.
This brings me good memories.
