AKASHA

The Akashic Records are a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future. They are believed to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the etheric plane.

We have built a machine that aims at expressing the divine through digital media. The disposition takes inspiration from the idea of sacred space. Each set was thought as stained glass windows of a cathedral. We aim at the induction of a meditative experience.

Our intention is that visitors can be involved for a long time with the installation. They could stay inside for hours or even days, the experience is always of mutation and impermanence.

It was built holding a massive archive of video and sound that I captured myself on site in different countries in Asia. We have compiled a selection of 6 years of video captures and catalogued them by archetypes. So we get an archive indexed by symbols: mountain, woman, water, moon, among many others...

An algorithm that interacts with the presence of people and creates in the screens several juxtapositions, double exposures and interactions between the videos and the code of the algorithm that generates what is being visualized, accesses this index.

Another algorithm digs in an original field sound recording archive captured on site. This archive is also indexed by its symbolic value. Chanting, sounds of the city, the silence of a forest, etc...These sounds elevate above an electronic mantra that is always present. The sound is a vacuum from which memories emerge.

Two algorithms, one connected to video and the other connected to sound colide constantly against each other, creating a poetic experience, ever-changing and of near-infinite signification.

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