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  Felipe Macia

Artist and filmaker exploring questions on memory in landscape, atmosphere and planetary systems

Statemnt + CV

PUBLIC SPACE INSTALLATIONS
Architectural Kinetics
Public Space
VIDEO/LIGHT INSTALLATIONS Archeology of Sky # 4
Atmosphere of Rivers
Boundaries
Niebla
No Cumbia Without Forest
Monoculture 3D Portraits
La Danza del Agricultor
La Voz de la Tierra

SOUND INSTALLATIONS
Arhceology of Sky # 3
Archeology of Sky #2
Archeology of Sky #1

EXPERIMENTAL 3D
Monoculture 3D

FILM
Greener Than Gold
The Last Miller

CURATORIAL WORK
Forest in the Caribean 
Dulce Tumaco

PUBLICATIONS
Forecast Journal Issue 11






f.macia23@gmail.com

Architectural Kinetics


2023
Architectural Kinetics is a large scale public scale  installation that was part of 2023 'Season of Light,' ART on THE MART partners with students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The work was on view from November 26 until December 30, nightly at 7:30 pm. 




The work explores  facades as light objects that modulate public space. By taking the grid patterns embedded in the architecture of the facade of the Merchandise Building and superimposing them, the work expresses the light generating potential of still patterns of modern architectural design. The work creates interfering patterns of intersecting architectural grids as a source of movement and light. Spatial position of architectural patterns becomes an analogue input for composition. The work revisits the techniques used by  Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz Diez to explore the movement potential of color  and geometrical patterns, and expands it by using patterns in architecture as a material to explore these principles. The facade of this iconic building, one of the largest in the world,  is understood  as a light trap of geometrical patterns and color with kinetic potential.





In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, ART on THE MART's 2023 winter season celebrates the emerging and established talent coming from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a beloved Chicago institution that is internationally regarded as one of the top art and design schools in the world.

Analog is a new commission created by undergraduate and graduate students from SAIC who have paired up to create 13 distinct projections. Under the guiding theme of "analog," the SAIC students were challenged to consider the site specificity of THE MART and the way analog visual and audio media production expands the possibilities of the world of digital projection. Each participating student, with backgrounds in artistic areas such as photography, film, kinetics, sculpture, or painting, bring to the project their different approaches and knowledge of materials, tools, and processes.