Entity, moving installation that interacts with the public at the Etopia art center

Zaragoza City Council, via Etopia Art and Technology Center, Since yesterday, it has been showing the interactive videomapping of video artist Ernesto Sarasa.

“Ente is an allegory of our relationship with the audiovisual medium today, that not only shows us images and sounds, but also watches us, "He manipulates us and uses us.", This is how the video artist Ernesto Sarasa describes his work Ente, which was inaugurated yesterday in Etopia Center of Art and Technology from Zaragoza (more data in Digital AV), .

Ente is an interactive moving videomapping installation, carried out in artistic residency at the Etopia Audiovisual Laboratory with the help of engineers Eduardo Estopiñán and Miguel Ángel Varona, specialists in interactive audiovisual technologies and OpenFrameworks programming, with which the Zaragoza artist reflects on technological alienation.

Through Kinect cameras, that detect the image of visitors, Ente captures whoever interacts with this installation and integrates their figure into the screens that surround the space in which it is located., thus simulating a living organism – an entity -, that evolves with external action and that serves as an allegory of the relationship between people and audiovisual media.

Designer, illustrator, audiovisual artist,… Ernesto Sarasa is a multidisciplinary creator with extensive professional experience. From 2003, He also works in audiovisual experimentation and animation, in which he includes his own sound compositions using samplers and field recordings, manipulating and disintegrating them with electronic resources, with artistic works in various new media projects, often under the pseudonym Fonosträbico.