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INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

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This interactive installation places us inside a very rustic and primitive tee pee with a camp re inside.

Around the camp re there are 4 oversized cell phones that look at the re as totems in a ceremony.

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In their screens images of other camp res in various landscapes are displayed. These camp res change randomly and independently within each cellphone until a spectator seats on any bench.

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When a spectator sits on any bench the images of camp res disappear and instead the viewers see themselves projected inside the cell phones. But the cell phones do not display in sel e mode, instead they project on the cell phone in front, which, like a mirror in front of another mirror, replicates the image of the viewer and the cell phone, but inside another cell phone.

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As the spectators get up from the benches, the totems once again project the images of camp res.Both moments are reinforced with sound within the installation.

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This piece aims to take us to the primitive origin, to the beginnings of civilization in which we supposedly lived in greater connection with nature and in community, but at the same time contrasting it with the world through the screens that we now live and embrace.

Indoor / Outdoor I n t e r a c t i v e V I D E O I N S TA L L AT I O N

Indoor / Outdoor

I n t e r a c t i v e V I D E O I N S TA L L AT I O N

CONCEPT The idea of a door comes from the assumption of dividing a reality in two. It comes with an innate idea of mankind of keeping these spaces apart from each other. The installation wants to play with these limits, with transition, with the ability of the door to transport us to di erent environments and states.

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The idea is to place the installation in a spot where its location invites people “to use” the installation to be able to circulate, in order that the fact of entering and going out of the installation be of mandatory tra c to cross from side to other, reinforcing the proposed concepts.

Indoor / Outdoor

I n t e r a c t i v e V I D E O I N S TA L L AT I O N

INTERACTIVITY - stage A The interactivity in the installation is generated between the projected video and the action of the spectator when crossing the threshold of door. Every time a person passes trough the doorsill, the projected doors will turn into another door of a facade.

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I n t e r a c t i v e V I D E O I N S TA L L AT I O N

INTERACTIVITY - stage B If after a certain lapse of time nobody enters or goes out of the installation the projected video transforms in a wide view of the shore with a threshold and a semi open door, inviting the spectator to pass it by.

MANCHINERY M U LT I C H A N N E L V I D E O I N S TA L L AT I O N

manchinery VIDEO INSTALLATION

manchinery VIDEO INSTALLATION

Brief description and way of mounting Multi-channel video projection (4:1) Multi-channel audio. Digital video. Digital projections. Variable dimensions. 2012.

The machinery installation places the viewer in front of 4 screen that become a visual orchestration of machines, people, gears, interfaces and devices, working together for a superior organism. A multichannel choreography of diverse elements and situations cross-linked by the dynamics of motion, transformation, change and the relationships of cause and e ect. A panoramic window into the insides of this machinery, an up-to-date City Symphony lm rendered through the intricate beauty of an assembly line.

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* The dimensions of this installation are variable. The dimension showed in this graphic are ideal and referential (as close to the dimensions in the grahic, the better). The purpose of the big format is to increase the immersive experience adding a sculptural dimension to the video. The panoramic landscape lends itself for the idea of a production line. The movements in the video, transform into a sensation of motion within the space.

manchinery VIDEO INSTALLATION

Theoretical background and references A series of devices connected by a relationship of cause and e ect lends itself to be easily associated with a Goldberg Machine.

Instead, the machine in this piece is the assembly of other machines, people and interfaces; whose connections are more based on matters of content, rhythm and motion than cause and e ect.

Rendering daily scenes of urban life and machines as a series of interconnected elements has been also explored in the City Symphony Films. Following this line, this piece is divided into sections or movements that vary in pace and intensity according to the era in the relationship men-machine that they depict.

The segmentation by periods of production within the history of capitalism (Henry Ford era/ post- Fordism/ industrialism/Postindustrialism] have been done following Deleuze´s analysis on technology and society; and how the relationship men-machines (accordingly to each era respectively) have developed di erent methods of control and production.

In the sections associated to the industrial revolution era, in which cogs, gears and pistons were visible and their functioning was more exposed as evident; the link among elements (screens) is more mechanical. While in the movements that approach methods of production closer to the Information Technologies, in which processors, computers and codes are its key elements, and its way of functioning is less visible. The connection between elements is more digitally triggered. Everything is independent and interconnected at the same time. “ Types of machines are easily matched with each type of society--not that machines are determining, but because they express those social forms capable of generating them and using them. The old societies of sovereignty made use of simple machines, levers, pulleys, clocks; but the recent disciplinary societies equipped themselves with machines involving energy, with the passive danger of entropy and the active danger of sabotage; the societies of control operate with machines of a third type, computers ” Gilles Deleuze - Postscript on the societies of control (1992)

In terms of form this project is closely related to what is know as Expanded Cinema, in the sense that it explores the spatial aspect of the moving image. The multi-channel audio and the multi-channel projections, re-inforces its sculptural qualities, allowing this visual score of people, machines and devices behave and work together as a whole or a superior organism.

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* For a project report and deeper information on the theoretical and artistic research, in the following link you will nd the thesis submitted for my master in Media Design at the Piet Zwart institute in Rotterdam http://issuu.com/luchosoldevilla/docs/manchinery_research_thesis_

manchinery VIDEO INSTALLATION

Video To see a video of the projected image go to : https://vimeo.com/45149582 Password : Soldevilla

Credits video and audio : Luis Soldevilla Audio mixing : Omar Pareja General Production : Luis Soldevilla Production Lima : Emergencia Audiovisual Location manager / Producer : Carolina Denegri sonido directo : Willy Ilizarbe Other audios, samples and wilds : The Free Sound Project Conceptual and production support : Piet Zwart Institute Shot mostly in Peru. Some footage shot in the Netherlands

Registry from : “Exception Handling” Piet Zwart Institute- Master Media Design & Communication Graduation Show at TENT Rotterdam - 2012. This is a reduced 8 mts long version of the instllation. Ideal lenght is of 12 meters.

machinery Video No 1

MACHINERY Video#1 S i n g l e c h a n n e l I N S TA L L AT I O N

single channel VIDEO INSTALLATION www.luchosoldevilla.com

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machinery Video No 1 Description First piece of the "Machinery"series. This video explores - in an abstract way - the motion generated by machines that "carry away" the citizens and how this machine at the same time transport the necessary energy to keep the city´s vital ow. By means of combining the inner motion of the devices (ladders, trains an elevators) with an external motion (camera movements) these ideas of motion, energy and transportation acquire a new meaning, generating a sort of vertigo and the idea of no point or direction.

Video To see the video go to : https://vimeo.com/23863746

Credits video and audio : Luis Soldevilla audio samples and wilds : The Free Sound Project Shot mostly in The Netherlands. Some footage shot in Paris and Lima.

PAISAL

M U LT I C H A N N E L V I D E O I N S TA L L AT I O N

PAISAL

MULTICHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION

PAISAL

MULTICHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION

CONCEPT PAISAL = Paisaje Social ( Social Landscape) To look at the social landscape is to look at the way of organizing and experiencing the territory; a way of comprehension and appropriation of the geographical space. Landscapes along which we walk and that we have constructed, landscapes that re ects a strong convergence of processes and cultural meanings. The landscape as a social portrait of our habitat.

The video installation Paisal is a journey through di erent views and locations; these social landscapes are being transformed and, as they do, so does the perspective of the viewer in the space.

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To see a virtual view of the projected video go to : https://vimeo.com/18921588

BASE 2006

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BASE

Immersive INSTALLATION

CONCEPT 1 : The Foundations of society. Elements upon which socielty develops and progresses. Basis of today´s society. Under this concept the video is projected on the oor, making the viewer stand on top of the image.

CONCEPT 2 : The re ection of the individual. The person as a re ection of society.

Under this idea the inside walls of the installation are covered with mirrors. The re ection of the spectator and of the image are in nitely multiplied, generating the feeling of motion in the entire space.

All cultures and societies physically develop in a territory, on a physical surface. Yet, in addition to that physical foundation, societies grow on the basis of ideologies, economies, technologies, and media. These (and others basis) are what truly support the entire weight and structure of social machinery. They are also accepted as solid foundations for an individual’s creation of a “lifestyle” and future. This sense of stability furthermore grants su cient rmness so that no one bothers to question the way in which society grows and progresses. In this way, individualism, violence, consumerism, etc. are conceived of as just social phenomena and not as re ections and expressions of the individual.

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Bearing in mind this purpose and starting from these conceptions, the video will be projected downwards, from the ceiling to the oor, making the viewer stand on top of the image. The entire space is designed so that the person’s re ection and the image, which acts as the oor, are in nitely multiplied due to the mirrors placed on the sides of the installation. Since the image will have a rather large eld of depth, the viewer, who is standing on the projection, will feel as if he is standing on top of nothing, and the mvement of the image will turn into the feeling of motion in the entire space

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title : BASE genre : Inmersive video installation technique : Projection onto Formica. Structure with mirrors at the edges of the projection. Sound in stereo.

Video MiniDV, digital photography.

The “BASE” video installation plays with the viewer’s perception of space, its dimensions and limits. It will not just be the physical space where he stands, but also of his condition as a re ection of society.

video : Luis Soldevilla animation : Henry Gates, Paulo Surber , Luis Soldevilla sound edition : Luis Soldevilla, Omar Pareja sound mix : Omar Pareja

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production : Luis Soldevilla montage production collaboration : Realidad Visual, Cultural Center of Spain

original format : NTSC loop duration : 6 minutes year of accomplishment : June 2006

To see a video resgistry of the installation go to:

https://vimeo.com/3320383 Images extracted from:: Google earth TV news - infomercials Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

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Sound and samplers extracted from: Neu! - Spintzenqualitat.

Stereolab – Black ants in sound dust No.9 – Dive in the deep (feat. Thika jun) Le tone – Bitter crop

DE PASEO NICOLAS DUARTE VIDEO CLIP - STILLS

HAMLET CHELA DE FERRARI V I S U A L S F O R T H E AT E R P I E C E - V I D E O S T I L L S

APEGO

SONIA CUNLIFFE - SILVANA PESTANA

V I D E O C O l L A B O R AT I O N - V I D E O S T I L L S

X-CLU ETERNITY VERÓNICA WIESE C O L L A B O R AT I O N F O R I N S TA L L AT I O N - V I D E O P R O J E C T I O N S T I L L S

OTHER Video works

Day ﹟8 Single channel video,2010.

Untitled Single channel video,2010.

OTHER Video works

LES ENFANTS DE FEU Collaboration with Mohammed Al Hawajri.

Single channel video, 2009.

Melatonin / Immersion Slumber Single channel video,2005.

OTHER Video works

Vimy Ridge Collaboration with Sara Hoyt and special person.com Video Clip , 2011.

No te denunciaré Rosario

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Video collaboration for Sonia Cunli e.

Single channel video , 2015