Adrián Regnier Chávez,

L.O.V.E. es sinónimo de "Laboratorio Orbital de Video Experimental", es la primer micro-novela multimedia experimental de nuestra época. Usa el lenguaje propio del hipertexto, las restricciones cuantitativas al video, el audio y lo envuelve en un vehículo de narración experimental. Se entreteje una experiencia compleja y profunda para el espectador, el fomento de introspección, el descubrimiento, la curiosidad y ludopatía rizomática. También cuenta la historia de una nube nuclear de amor a la humanidad en breve será convertido. // L.O.V.E. stands for “Laboratorio Orbital de Video Experimental” (Experimental Video Orbital Laboratory), it is the first micro-multimedia experimental novel of our times. Using hypertext, QRs, Video, Audio and experimental storytelling narratives. It interweaves a complex and profound experience for the viewer, encouraging introspective, discovery, curiosity and rhyzomatic ludopathism. It also tells the story of a nuclear cloud of love humanity shall soon be turned into. // www.lovelovelovelovelove.xyz

‘C. (Celeste) - Multiple Interpretation of the Stellar Order', was one of the 6 awarded projects in the 2013-2014's Grants & Commissions program by the Cisnero-Fontanals Art Foundation. Celeste is a multimedia project that strives to develop a system through which any positional array of stars can be interpreted as data variations on a scallar graph, and then effectively translate them into audio/musical compositions. Starting on April the 1st and up until June 27th, I did a photographic registry of all of 2014’s spring night skies. I set side by side two tripod+DSLR camera systems, both aiming at the night sky in a 0° vertical position: the first camera set to bulb mode, the other one controlled by an intervalometer, to take one picture each 10 seconds. Every third day, all through the spring’s ninety nights, this system allowed me to amass more than 85,000 time-lapsing images of the night sky, clearly allocated into 30 sessions – what much later would then become Celeste’s 30 Stellar Nocturnes-. These images were then condensed into 30 Radial Maps optically-compensated images that integrated thousands of photos into an emulation of polar graph akin to spherical navigational maps. The next step was to meticulously transform all of the Radial Maps’ spherical data into planar data (i.e. polar coordinates conversion to scallar ones). This way, the polar position of each star was transformed into audio data when read as points in linear/scallar graphs: the final Linear Maps –essentially, notes over musical pentagrams-. In a second level of musical complexity, the chemical composition, distance from Earth, color and mass of each star –as well as a myriad of other astronomical data- were all integrated into a musical algorithim so as to procedurally modify each note's –each star’s- specific amplitude, pitch, reverb and overall sound. ° When exhibited, Celeste is comprised by three mixed media modules: 1) M.: a 4’ single channel video abstract, detailing the iner workings of its system, as well as its poetic statement. 2) The Stellar Nocturnes: a ten-channel monitor array, each one showing showing one of the ten three-nocturne sets, with video showcasing each night’s stellar movement through orbital animation, playing in loop along the Nocturnes (all 30 musical compositions). Each one 3’30” long, for a total running time of 33’. 3) The Multiple Interpretation of the Stellar Order: 30 6’*12’*3/8’ tungsten-coated aluminum slates, each one engraved with a different Linear Map. These pieces are made to resist up to 5,000 years’ worth of metal/material degradation, effectivelly eternal. Between September and November 2014, Celeste was featured in the Grants & Commissions 2013-2014 collective exhibit, Fleeting Imaginaries, held at the CIFO Art Space, in Miami. It now forms part of the Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation collection. So there you have it, here resides Celeste, the multiple interpretation to all our stellar and their multiple orders. Please enjoy it and the symphony resulting. For as brief as your passing through this universe may be.

Se dice que, a lo largo de la marcha de miles de seres humanos, el caminar y vitoreo por sus ideales liberan energía equivalente al de un pequeño sol y los amaneceres que precede. Se supone pues, que esas manifestaciones son el principio de esas manifestaciones.

"¿Es usted parte de alguna tribu o culto?" V.I.S.A. es una pieza hecha para provocar en el espectador una mezcla incómoda entre repetición consciente y escrutinio pesado. Confronta al espectador con un conjunto de preguntas protocolares que las embajadas de los Estados Unidos de América hacen a cualquier persona interesada en la emisión de una Visa. Acaso un rito de pasaje internacional para el cual resulta pertintente considerar si el entrevistado posee un dominio de las artes marciales israelíes; si tiene un historial de asesinatos presidenciales o si ha traficado con tejidos humanos. Al final, V.I.S.A. se trata de reconocer estas importantes cuestiones no a una bandera / nación , ni a una madre / padre, sino a algo mucho menos indulgente : el propio corazón. Se recomienda revisitar V.I.S.A. regularmente : si no acaso por la tranquilidad que ofrece, sí al menos por la respuesta automática que produce. // "Are you part of a clan or tribe?" V.I.S.A. is a work made to instill into the viewer an uncomfortable mixture of both mindful repetition and tiresome scrutiny. It confronts him/her with the set of protocolary questions all United States of America’s embassies ask to anyone interested in issuing a Visa. A rite of international passage for which matters like proficiency in Israeli martial arts, history of presidential assassinations and human tissue trafficking are a big ‘no,no’. In the end, Various Implications, Solid Appraisals is about acknowledging these important matters not to a flag/nation, nor to a mother/father, but to something much less forgiving: one’s heart. It is advised to revisit V.I.S.A. regularly: if not for the peace of mind it offers, at least for the automated response it ensues.

Itera es un cortometraje de animación tradicional que busca ejemplificar los roles de la repetición y la identidad en la vida. A través de una serie de fases iterativas, lo que comienza como una forma simple y reconocible, eventualmente degenera en una matriz de sí misma. De desbordado e imparable cambio. Este es un círculo que ha sido fotocopiado 80,000 veces. Esta es su mejor historia. // Itera is a traditional media animation that strives to exemplify the roles of repetition and identity in real life. Through a series of iterative phases, what begins as a simple, recognizable form eventually sprouts a matrix of itself. Of uncontained and thriving change. This is a circle that has been photocopied 80,000 times. This is it's better story. // Texto original de Carlos Paz Olivieri Sangiacomo. Adaptación por Adrián Regnier Chávez. ©Adrián regnier Chávez 2012