Neus Torres Tamarit Art

Biomorpha 3D, 2017 Variable dimensions Mixed media: digital prints on acetate, magnets, video This installation is the first response to my artist residency at the Reuter Laboratory at UCL. Dr Max Reuter and his team use fruit flies and yeast to conduct research into the forces that drive and constrain evolution. This first part of the residency has been quite challenging for me. I have spent the last two years thinking about genetics as a subject for art; now I spend my time with research scientists who must develop a very deep understanding of a very specific part of genetics. I created these artworks to reflect my experience of their experience of science. I have used a combination of images taken through microscopy and images of a 3D version of the Confined Mutations / Biomorpha digital lifeform. They are deconstructed, defocused and decontextualized so that detail is enhanced but context is lost. Some microscopy images are of fruit fly cocoons, others are of biop...

From the 20th to the 24th of September 2017, we exhibited at Clinic //2, an exhibition curated by Vitamin Design studio in partnership with the London Design Festival and Oxo Tower. Clinic //2 explored the diminishing digital interface layer and technology’s effect on our reality. Digital emulation continually strives to become indecipherable from real-world existence. Where does your reality stop and simulation begin? Vitamin Design studio invited us to exhibit our installations Confined Mutations and a selection of the artworks belonging to Biomorpha (Evolving Structures). When we arrived to the emblematic Oxo Tower, we decided to turn our piece Confined Mutations into a site-specific installation, as we wanted our abstract digital organisms to interact with the features of the space as much as possible. Site-specific adaptation of Confined Mutations We decided to project the animations on the structure of two old windows, which had a mixture of materials such as gla...

Biomorpha (Evolving Structures) is a mixed media installation that combines a digital interactive installation, a series of acrylic and bioplastic sculptures, holograms, photo-etchings and a performance. The project explores the idea that an organism is limited by the success of the mutations of its ancestors and how evolutionary pressure accelerates the mutation rate in an organism that is adapted to an environment that originally has stable conditions. Special thanks to Ben Murray for his help in developing the software, to Dr Max Reuter for his contribution in genetics and evolution and to Aimee Dulake and Jessie Richardson for their involvement in the performance. This is my final project for the Masters in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins, exhibited at the Degree Show in May 2017.  Video of the performance on this link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj5p1Rxrkpw Digital interactive installation with a member of the public and Ben Murray. ...