Artist
Romain Biros
Careless fluids
Free. Artwork shown as part of main exhibition.
Romain is an artist based in London and best known for his ability to interrogate and hack audio-visual technologies to go beyond their intended purposes. He has a master in computer science (INSA Lyon, France) and in computational arts (Goldsmiths, U.K.). Using programming his work spans a diverse range of practices such as photography, film, electronic music, performances and art installations. With loss="binary_crossentropy" (2019), he brought the latent space of machine learning into the gallery space to explore the operational contexts in medical imaging. He is now involved with in_grid collective and his latest series of works focus on revisiting the use of the slit-scan photography technique.

Careless fluids is an installation originally made for In-grid RealBodies in 2022, an exhibition and performance evening organised by the ingrid.io collective: “Clubs are refracted spaces, experienced by their visitors as serving a spectrum of functions. They are places to converge and meld bodies into dance monstrosities. They are the site of introspection, of a mindful hedonism, for an individual alone in a smoking area. Or else they are safe spaces, a room in which to comfortably self destruct.”

In this new iteration we incorporated a sonic dimension reacting to the visuals and designed by Sunny. The installation is made to distort the audience reflection with a similar technique used in AB_tempora called ‘Slit-scanning’ along with real-time mesh noise deformation of the surface the moving-image is mapped upon. Technology: C++, OpenFrameworks, openGL, openCV, RaspberryPi