Diastrofismos

Work by Nicole L’Huillier, Yasushi Sakai, and Thomas Sanchez Lengeling

Opening Reception: March 7, 2018 at 6:30pm
On Display through March 31

Diastrofismos is an ongoing work that explores a poetical, critical, and political crossing between technology and matter in order to raise questions about the relationship between human beings and nature. This piece also considers the construction of memory in a community by questioning the notion of a monument, as well as imagining alternative forms of communication in times of crisis.

Diastrofismos is a sound installation with a modular system that sends images through rhythmic patterns. The installation changes depending on its context. The last version was done in the context of the Media Arts Bienal in Santiago, Chile, where it was built on a set of debris from the Alto Río building that was destroyed by the 27F earthquake in 2010 in Chile. For this occasion, the piece is built with the detritus of MIT, where the production of things is extremely fast, the landscape is in a constant shift, and there is a constant tension between the new and the obsolete, the future and the past.

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