int.5_27/G.S.I.L.XXX is a generative audiovisual collaboration between LIA and the Portuguese music collective @c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela). The work was commissioned in 2004 by Medienturm Graz for their limited DVD edition series, Edition Medienturm.
The software system developed for this piece explores complex, layered visual structures generated from code. This specific generative engine was also adapted by LIA to create the interactive installation for the BIX Facade at the Kunsthaus Graz in the same year.
The video work was subsequently acquired for the Permanent Collection of the Neue Galerie Graz (Universalmuseum Joanneum) and has been exhibited internationally, including at the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia) and HMKV (Dortmund).
High-resolution still, digitally upscaled from the original 2004 source.
Generative outputs from the software system.
Critical Analysis
Her video “int.5_27/G.S.I.L.XXX,” part of a – so far – thirty piece project titled “G.S.I.L,” exemplifies some of the best characteristics found in this form of expression. The work pairs non-representational graphic sequences with the music of the Portuguese electronica duo, @c – a long-standing collaborator of the artist. Emphasizing an aesthetic of a generative nature, the video’s visual and audio juxtapositions are not only alluring but also notably significant in that they amplify the notion of abstraction through the paradigms of the digital arena.
Forms and patterns emerge in ways that seem to follow a logic particular to their own technological means of production. Clearly, “int.5_27/G.S.I.L.XXX” speaks in the language of abstraction to which only the elements particular to the process are relevant. However, unlike modernist predecessors, who following a similar criterion consciously reduced the pictorial components to their simplest form, LIA expands them via a more complex processing system. […] The audiovisual bits – while autonomous of any impulse external to their system – always recreate themselves anew in a variety of forms that suggest an embracing rather than a reduction of complexity.
Text by Andrés Ramírez Gaviria
Project Details
Year Created: 2004
Medium: Generative Audiovisual Work / Single-Channel Video
Duration: 8’44”
Format: 720 x 576
Permanent Collection
Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (Universalmuseum Joanneum, Video Art Collection)
Creative Collaboration
Sound: @c (Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela)
Commission: Medienturm Graz (‘Edition Medienturm’)
Selected Exhibitions
Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (‘Rewind, Fast Forward’, Feb 28 – May 24, 2009)
Curator: Günther Holler-Schuster
Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (‘Another Tomorrow’, Nov 7 – Dec 3, 2008)
Curator: Günther Holler-Schuster
HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund, Germany (‘Waves’, May 10 – June 29, 2008)
ARCO, Madrid, Spain (‘Digital Transit’, Feb 7 – 13, 2006)
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA (’13th Annual Festival’, August 17 – 24, 2006)
‘Rewind, Fast Forward’ Exhibited Artists: Nam June Paik, Valie Export, Peter Weibel, Bruce Nauman, LIA, Pipilotti Rist, Dan Graham, and others.
