The video documents the installation by Brasilian artist, designer, and researcher Zanotello, investigation on a new digital materialism rooted in the tension between dinstinction and convergence of matter, between information and matter. A machine performs the ore’s erosion sorted layer by layer employing magnetism while simultaneously writing the ore by depositing its residue sediments linearly according to the measured values.
Luiz Zanotello, A Habitat of Recognition, installation, 2017
The project was conceived as part of a master thesis submitted at the University of the Arts Bremen in 2017, and supervised by Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick, Prof. Dennis P. Paul and Prof. Ralf Baecker