CHORA: A MEDITATION ON THE IMPERMANENCE OF FORM

All things appear and disappear eternally and infinitely. But from what does form appear and disappear and who observes this? Interactive Chicago based artist Brett Ian Balogh explores the impermanence of form through a new multimedia installation called Chora.

For the project, Balogh combined audio data generated from the seismic activity of Mount Etna in Italy which is blasted through four speakers, with a moving abstract white filament image that renders an ever-changing wire based structure. The visual component, was developed using CAD (computer-aided design) and Blender (an open-source video-game engine). The most unique aspect of this piece is that it’s not a loop.

“The piece is generative, meaning it is computed in real time and therefore has no fixed duration. It can run indefinitely. The piece is meant to create an environment where both sound and image reference form and activity, but the abstract nature of these references create a space that is always changing, asking the viewer to envision new forms/spaces.”

A three-minute, quicktime screen grab is available here. Check it out.