Adrià Gil
I am a new media artist working with sound, image and code. We all have an internal dialogue that we constantly develop as we communicate and contrast it with others. In our inner freedom we build identities, acquire tastes and celebrate events. We founded our own countries and states with our own character. In mine we speak with music, image, code and art is the manifestation of life. I choose music because it is responsible for the maximum human pleasure, it makes me happy and does not make any harm. Also because it is very primitive and very unusual, like a drug that doesn't kill you.
I choose the image because of the need to hold my footprint to give proof of my existence in this particular reality. I work with portraits because, like fire, they hypnotize me with their expression and lead me to create unique fictional identities that create new realities...I can't help but imagine the lives of those people, who make me happy and sadden me. I choose code because creation through electrical impulses has conditioned my conception of artistic practice.
I was born at the time of these and they are the source and objective of my creations.
Could you tell us a little more about your background, and how did you begin creating art?
My beginnings are based on technical knowledge, both around music and programming; knowing how the language that forms the screen is shaped, these interests and others make up the focus of my gaze. Through artificial intelligence I have found the aesthetic presence of the image, artificial intelligence allows me to be the curator in which your gaze will settle to see all the imaginary that I have inside.
What does your art aim to say to the viewers?
I understand aesthetics as something changing in front of a society with variable values. My images focus on the disorder and distortion since I understand in this schizophrenic and accelerated society, the imaginary is surrounded by the unheimlich that surrounds us in our day to day.
Can you tell us about the process of creating your work? What is your daily routine when working?
I am very lazy to answer this question, because those who dedicate time to create or be an artistic entity, knows that the information comes from our day to day, our activities and routines, in the most everyday, this interest in capturing behaviours is revealed. Humans who are based on this variable morality. My practice is daily, since the images I find on the net are coordinated by my emotional state. The coordination of artificial intelligence together with my curatorship form new states in which I immerse myself. I find an aesthetic joy in my practice that is why it stimulates me every day.
What’s the essential element in your art?
The most essential thing lies in the distortion, getting to capture the movement of a common place, such as the face, leads us to a self-analysis of human representation. In the creation process, the most important thing is the raw material; the images. The textures, the motif and the interpretation that a machine makes on these elements is the most interesting thing about this doing, since it leads me to many questions and to those who see it as well.
In your opinion, what role does the artist have in society?
The most sincere thing would be to say the agitation, move consciences, change the ways of being, the most common would be to find your own language. Artists or creators are people who continue to bet on creating a way to influence the common environment within their own perspective, when creating these methodologies they are in tune.
Website: http://iam.adriagil.com
