"Certezas" (the original software created in Processing for this work) detects the silhouette of a rock (image) and generates a shower of figures that fall with the force of gravity, respecting this outline.
These figures are a collection of drawings I created for this work.
Initially, this projection was done on a large painting; the object representing the stone was a hyperrealistically painted rock. Over the past year, the projection surface has changed. The resulting image is now projected and mapped onto natural stone, creating a dialogue between the material and the digital, the shadow cast by the stone, and the light emitted by the projector.
From the beginning, humankind has made constant use of the resources provided by rocks. Minerals have always been available and ready for human use, but what other kinds of relationships can exist between them? There are various real and symbolic analogies between them. For example, the individuality of rocks, their developmental processes (lithological cycle), the skeletal origins of humankind, rock migrations, etc. This is an opportunity for humanity, through electronic arts and new media, to reconnect with its origins in the minerals that preceded it on Earth, reflecting on power relations and the bonds that unite them. This project proposes a series of artworks with a lithocentric perspective, where minerals are the masters and have the voice to recount their situation. I propose a new current of works, based on my theoretical and philosophical research. This series of artworks reflects on the relationship between humanity and minerals, from an ecological and nature-respecting perspective, utilizing the electrical and physical properties provided by the naturally occurring rocks. Thus, a new theoretical field of research is created within electronic arts, which I call LitoArt and LitoTecArt.