What you’re looking at is mind-bending footage from DROMOS, a multimedia installation inside the Satosphère in Montreal to to help celebrate the Mutek Festival. Created by composer Fraction and digital artist Maotik, DROMOS is so intense that it’s almost unwatchable. Cited as an immersive live audio/visual performance, the installation really starts to get to the viewer after just seconds—imagine lying down on the floor in this room.
The artists worked off a phrase by theorist Paul Virilio, on the topic of technology speeding the rush of humanity: ”In the fields of science and technique that have built the western world, we have only conceived machines dedicated to increasing speed. The person who would invent a slowing down apparatus would be regarded as an absurd man."
In a strange video approximation of some works by James Turrell, the boundary between real and perceived space becomes broken, meaningless even, as the granules swirl and the very world of the performance expands and contracts. Check it out above.
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[via Designboom]
