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Patxi Araujo
H.D.H. Hortzmuga Den Hartan
In that one Horizon

 

            Patxi Aurajo is an artist and a professor of the Fine Arts faculty of the País Vasco University, where she distributes subjects to the Technological Drawing and Multimedia department. After an expanded experience in the field of plastic that continued from the drawing and painting to the digital animation, she investigated scenographic applications, installations and events of interactive nature under the surroundings of visual programming. 
-------Patxi Araujo describes H.D.H. as a visual and sonorous interactive landscape that projects the vision of the horizon through an image of a synthetic sea, in which the structure varies as it emits sounds and wind by imitating the sound of the waves and the breeze of the sea.
            In H.D.H., the order, the frequency, the quality, and the quantity of those dynamic elements are reactants to the noise of video signals that are around the room which they capture the interaction of space and the presence of the spectators when they are in the room.  That leads to the H.D.H. to elevate the waves and the wind based on the movement and position of the person interacting with it, and calm its surge when the spectator stops moving or if the space is empty.
            To approach the recreation of the image and the meaning of the sea, H.D.H, develops its argument from three interrelated key elements. These elements would generate in the spectator, use the sensation and evocation of certain natural qualities by means of the use of artificial or synthetic simple units.
            The visual noise, the temporary movement, and the targeted locations of the position of the spectator inside a space of interaction, illuminated by infrared light, generates variables that register 3D and MIDI data by means of loudspeakers and video projectors.           
            This particular exhibition was very interesting and exciting to me. It showed me a different type of art and sound combined together that also interacted with its viewers. I was actually guarding this particular exhibition at the Fine Arts University of Palma. For a week I got to see the reactions different students, professors, and visitors had of this fun interactive art. The art consisted of a square white room with two projectors and infrared lights on every corner.  As the body moves in the room the infrared light captures that movement and projects it from the projectors to the screen and emits it in sonorous waves and breeze.
The room sounds very simple but when the system was turned on and the lights turned off, you were almost immediately surrounded by the sonorous waves. I was sitting there trying to find words to explain the technology behind this amazing project, but listening to the sounds of the wave and the breeze made me travel to the place I always go to when I’m pondering or relaxing, the island I am from.
            This sound not only becomes art with the help of technology and from its spectators but also from the sound itself: the waves and breeze. It transcends you to a different world. It creates your own art for the imagination you capture from it and at the end it becomes your own art.