"Anima"
2017
Installation
h102 x w102 x d69 cm
The installation "Anima" simulates my recorded heartbeats with glasses of water using digital devices. A series of recorded heartbeats are allocated to 6 glasses and are played back in loops by a microcontroller.
*recorded heartbeat
The word "animation" is derived from the latin word anima, which means life, soul, or breath. Animation originally means "action of imparting life". This project is giving my breath to a non-organic substance
through a computer, that is to say, to curse ( hack ) the objects in a digital way. This is a primitive instrument, which merely pushes and pulls water in a binary manner. Also the object, which makes reference to my life log is
possessed by my anima in other words: it is my physical avatar.
The way in which we preserve ourselves could be more complex in the future, like a digital clone, with whom you could exist in a virtual world forever, or embedding DNA
information into a tree. This implies the appearance of a new type of animism. You can exist, even if your body does not. This might sound more primitive or even religious than current prevailing religions.