NETSCAPES © 2016
This series brings together an interest in the material exploration of glass and network visualisations that demand the appropriation of a three-dimensional installation space.
Spainnet appropriates the visualisation processes of a network to construct a particular cartography of the geopolitical map of Spanish territory. Based on different connectivity studies (roads, fibre optics, population density, etc.), a three-dimensional graphic has been generated that brings together this complex system of links and connections between different points of the Spanish geography. The purpose of Spainnet is to elaborate a spatial representation of all this informational data, capable of being replicable at other scales and in other cities, a matrix of possibilities. The work is understood as an open process, capable of incorporating new information profiles. Glass nodes indicate the capital of the corresponding autonomous community, while transparent tubes, with different heights and diameters, regulate the importance of the geographical nucleus to which they refer, while at the same time serving as a support for weaving the links resulting from the interpretation of the graphics studied. A multiplicity of lines are superimposed, both horizontally and vertically, weaving an organic, almost arterial network.
Spainnet © 2016
Borosilicate tube and rod, elastic rubber, wood fibres
200 x 150 x 75 cm (h)
Glassnet explores the visualisation of an ordered complexity in the form of a three-dimensional network. A network can be considered a structural and organisational model that permeates almost all areas of knowledge, but we are particularly interested in the parallels between the urban landscape and the neural landscape. In considering its representation, Glassnet primarily emphasises the value of nodes as spaces of confluence in the connectivity of links or vertices. In this installation the nodes are represented by crystalline structures in the form of an organic sphere containing within it a rhizome of connections, also transparent, almost intangible. These nodes are suspended in the air by the tension of red rubber bands that generate a complex web of lines and connections. A landscape of networks where the gaze goes from a micro approach of nodes-neurons-cities to a macro and relational one of links-brain-mappings.
Glassnet © 2016
Borosilicate rod, elastic elastic band
Variable dimensions
Trees network explores the visualisation of an ordered complexity in the form of a three-dimensional network. A network can be considered a structural and organisational model that permeates almost all areas of knowledge. In considering its representation, Trees network primarily emphasises the value of nodes as spaces of confluence in the connectivity of links or vertices. This sculptural ensemble is made up of three crystalline nodes in the form of geometric spheres that contain within them a rhizome of connections, also transparent, almost intangible. These nodes are supported by a metaphorical trunk of glass tubes. A landscape of tree-networks where the gaze goes from a micro approach, of superimpositions and transparencies, to a macro and relational one, composed of links.
Trees Network © 2016
Borosilicate tube and rod
40 x 30x 140 (h) unit#1; 30 x 30x 128 (h) unit#2; 30 x 30x 102 (h) unit#3;
CREDITS ::
Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro
Production: Esther Pizarro Studio / Emilio Elvira (scientific blower) / MAVA
EXHIBITED IN ::
Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio, MAVA. “Pensar en Vidrio”, Alcorcón, Madrid, España. 02/03/2016 al 06/06/2016. Catalogación: ISBN: 978-84-88536-32-7. DL: M-24674-2016
Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja, Museo Tecnológico del Vidrio. “Pensar en Vidrio”, Segovia, España. 30/09/2016 al 20/01/2017. Catalogación: ISBN: 978-84-88536-32-7. DL: M-24674-2016
Bornholm Art Museum. “European Glass Context 2016 Curated”, Bornholm, Dinamarca. 10/09/2016 al 13/11/2016. Catalogación: ISBN: 978-87-7830-397-4
ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE ::
AAVV (2016). Catálogo exposición: Pensar en Vidrio, Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio, MAVA. Alcorcón, Madrid, España. Edición impresa. ISBN: 978-84-88536-32-7. DL: M-24674-2016
