This series of images are the result of an algorithmic evolutionary process, completed through physical and digital media, originating from nature and delivered to the meta-ecosystem of the web. A series of waves at a beach in Attica were born and died during the long lockdown of 2020-2021. They were recorded in video by a camera from the only human in view during their life-course. The video was digitally distorted and data-moshed at a computer with the use of evolutionary algorithms, video-stills were photographed with a smartphone from the LCD screen, photographs were color-corrected at a computer, and finally the algorithmic fossils of the waves were formed. A digital imprint of what is gone, what is left, and of the time that has gone by. Fossils of the pieces of self that died in the process of sequential lockdowns, deprivations and isolation.
“An interdisciplinary female human, born by the sea, combining arts, design and science;
through experimentations, correlations, and collisions.”
Vanessa Ferle is an artist, graphic designer and neuroscientist. She has studied biology and
neuroscience at School of Science of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and at
Medical School of Athens, and digital arts and new media at Athens School of Fine Arts and
University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. She is combining her interdisciplinary interests
in art projects and artistic research. Her research focuses on the affective side of art in
correlation to anthropomorphism. In specific, her focus is on the representation of animals
per se and on the animal essence that automation, machines and smart technologies infuse
into digital art, and the emotional response of humans to this “animal-effect”. She has
present her works of VR, AR, digital images, experimental and animation film in various
festivals.
