Technologically, titanium shavings are industrial waste. This is not the final, but one of the possible, intermediate forms of material existence. In this cyclicity, titanium is accompanied by numerous manipulations associated with processing on various equipment and. But what information about himself, in addition to the visible shell, can he give in any of his possible states?

Each element of titanium shavings is unique, it has its own length, bending lines, glare surfaces. Using these characteristics, artists approach metal from a deep media research perspective - titanium acts as a sound wave generator and an electromechanical audio signal processor. Real-time physical, chemical, and color sensor data adjust the parameters of these generators. The received sound signals are passed and processed through the body of the four curls of the shavings.

The transition to a new quality becomes the very stage that allows you to get out of the state of technological death, to reveal the internal potential of the material, previously unknown to anyone.

Four-channel sound outlines a moving sound space and forms a study area for the viewer that exists only within the established spatial and temporal limits.

CREDITS
Project by Da team (Timofey Gorbatenko, Olesya Ilyenok, Anastasia Lukuta, Evgeny Lukuta, Marina Muzyka, Andrey Chugunov).

Made in Far Eastern Federal University, –Da. Master Program in Digital Art. School of Digital Economics.

Media used: 4-channel audio, plexiglass cube, titanium shavings, electronics.

Exhibitions:
“Received from or Handed to”, the research project of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale, Ural branch of the NCCA-ROSIZO, Yekaterinburg, 2019.

Da (Digital art) is a team of master students in digital art, which started in Vladivostok in 2018. They work at the intersection of science and art and create projects on topical topics of our time, using new types of media technologies.