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294 prepared dc-motors, cork balls, cardboard boxes 41x41x41cm, Volume’s centerpiece, is part of Zimoun’s current series of installations involving prepared dc-motors and cardboard boxes.

Ariel Guzik _ Mexico City, 1960

Musician, researcher, scientist, artist, iridologist, herbalist. Her work is driven by a nostalgia that seeks to recover the game and combine art with science. Based on this, their devices are governed by a methodology of interaction between the viewer and the environment involving various performative actions in each of his appearances and generating a continuous transformation of the work itself. He invented and built various musical instruments.

An installation for used cassette players which looks on their obsolescence not as an ending, but as an opportunity to reconsider their functional potential. Superseded as playback devices, they become instruments in their own right. Replacing the prerecorded content of each tape with a microphone gives us the chance to listen instead to the rhythmic and resonant properties of these once ubiquitous plastic shells. Binatone Galaxy brings the framework within which a generation purchased their favourite records to the centre of attention, revealing the acoustics of the cassette and the voices of the machines themselves.

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rAndom’s ‘Study of Time # 1‘ is a first piece that evolved from the studio’s recent scenography for the contemporary dance piece FAR by Wayne McGregor | Random Dance. Premiered at Design Miami Basel 2011, the installation takes light, it’s presence and it’s absence, as a medium for the representation of time. A vividly illuminated autonomous algorithm magically reveals the time of the day, re-imagining the principle of telling time from falling shadows as a contemporary light installation.