Uncanny Order

Artists: Floriama Candea, Claudia Chiriță și Cătălin Crețu
Opening, 13 July, 7:00 PM

Visiting days: 07.06 – 30.06.2023
Wednesday - Saturday, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

 

The strange order that spontaneously establishes itself and which we call synchronicity is the leitmotif of the Uncanny Order project. Whether we are talking about populations of insects pulsating visually or audibly in unison, trillions of atoms emitting photons at the same frequency, cardiac cells in our hearts, or group social behaviors, nature seems to have a tendency towards this order. Uncanny Order is an artistic research project focused on the real-time processing of data to create visual and interactive artworks, offering participants the opportunity to witness the emergence of patterns and explore the complex dynamics of chaos.

Chaos theory represents a field of research in nonlinear dynamical systems that is widely known and often understood as a deterministic theory characterized by paradoxes and recursion. This theory has many applications that underlie the technologies we interact with today, such as human-computer interfaces and the digital environment. Chaos describes both complex structures and principles of the natural world, as well as mathematical models that refer to the dynamics of nonlinear iterative systems and are fundamental to visible representations, generative imagery, and generative sound. Although chaos is often described as "random," it is in reality subject to strict mathematical rules derived from equations.
The team of artists consisting of Floriama Candea, Claudia Chiriță, and Cătălin Crețu, together with programmer Cristian Bălaș and researchers Marian Zamfirescu and Ionuț Andrei Relu, focuses on mathematical models of dynamical systems underlying natural, biological, and physical phenomena. They create artistic installations based on these models, offering the audience a guide to interact with objects that include electronic devices using randomization and combinatorial optimization algorithms, in order to recreate situations of synchrony. Through the presence and interaction with these installations, the public becomes an active part in challenging the initial conditions, determining changes in the behavior of the artworks, allowing them to follow unexpected and unpredictable paths.

 

 

Team:
Artists: Floriama Candea, Claudia Chiriță și Cătălin Crețu
| Communication: Anca Spiridon | Project manager: Adrian Moleavin |Graphic Design: Graphomat

 

Organisers: Qolony -The art & science Colony, MOBIUS Gallery
Partners: National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics,
Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy

Media Partners: Radio România Cultural, Radio București FM, Radio Timișoara, IQads, Spotmedia, B365.ro, TION, Știri de Timișoara, LIFE.ro, Mindcraft Stories, Observator Cultural, Revista Golan, Curatorial, Zeppelin, The Institute, Modernism, Happ.ro, Munteanu, Agenda, Gonext, Empowerartists

Uncanny Order cultural project is funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration and does not necessarily represent the position of the AFCN. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.