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Arjan Guerrero

artist, Mexico City

Digital video:   I see it in the air

zoomed-in, waifu2x-upscaled footage of Mars by NASA‘s Perseverance with first ever recorded sounds of Mars (rover‘s self-noise filtered out) showing an Unidentified Navigating Object, from February 19, 2021    

Digital video (AI-generated still image, animated with added visual effects and using the original first recorded sounds of Mars by NASA‘s Perseverance rover on February, 2021)

33 seconds (looped)

              statement:

On February 19, 2021, NASA‘s Perseverance rover arrived to crater Jezero and delivered the first recorded sounds of Mars.

What does it sounds like? Does it sounds like just noise or does it sounds like wind? Does it sounds like just wind or does it sounds like a planet? What unheard things share the same atmosphere? What things are implicit in these sounds? What things are implicit in the things we register the worlds and what in the thigs with which we register?

We naturally try to see and hear shapes in the noise. Neural Networks – those algorithms that we use to enhance the world and get rid of the noise – do so as well. We try to see things were there aren‘t, but where they actually could be – because imagining what could be “there” is making it a little bit more real.

Familiar whispers in the air could become alien roarings in the sky.

               bio:

Arjan Guerrero (Mexico City, 1988) develops material investigations and speculative narratives making use of high cultural traction technologies, working long-term to participate in cutting edge cosmologies. He has been granted by programs such as Arte Ciencia y Tecnologías (2018), presented in institutions like the Centro Nacional de las Artes and awarded a Honorary Mention at Festival Transitio international contest (2017).

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