Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank

Name: Recombinant Media Labs and Gray Area present THIRST with Franck Vigroux & Werktank
Start: 2025-02-13T19:00:00-08:00
Location: 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110

Schedule

Thu, 13 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110 | San Francisco, CA

Electronics sorcery wizard Franck Vigroux who galvanized the Gray Area / Recombinant Festival collaboration in summer 2023 with his works Atotal and Nacht returns to the Bay with the cinematic world premiere of THIRST. This intense spectacle of overlapping multi projector image layers onto a singular expansive screening canvas in 3 dimensions portrays an advanced AV approach to live telluric depictions as generated by the top Belgium based media collective Werktank.
Drawing inspiration from the lexicon of road movies, Americanized iconography, and hyper-colored, tableaux-saturated aesthetics, it offers a sensory excursion that prompts reflections on postmodern symbols of transgression, rogue journeys, and yearning. These symbols are now confronted in the concert by contemporary societal, digital, and planetary developments.
The escalation of an eminent sublime in Vigroux’s pulsating brutalist sound showers pervades this electrified Neo-dystopian audio atmosphere. THIRST is a diversified piece of music with motion picture revealing the different influences of Vigroux's worldwide studio sessions over the years. He has conducted synchronized collaborations with Mika Vaino from Pan Sonic, Zeena Parkins and Zeitkratzers Reinhold Friedl from Berlin.
Live music : Franck Vigroux
Video : Werktank
On View alongside: Animal Locomotion
Feb 10 - 16
A collection of GIFs as part of ongoing research for a Virtual Reality project based on the work of Edouard Muybridge, the 19th-century photographer famous for his movement studies of horses and humans. He is often considered the unofficial inventor of the GIF.
These A.I. interpretations offers an alternative history of the human body in motion, and questions the notion of physical movement in relation to speed. When we create with the help of A.I., we sometimes have the impression of communicating with an extraterrestrial life form and opening a portal to a parallel universe.
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