back to projects

Earth
prisma

Nebula Project

The artists travel to Alto Patache where they develop a site-specific performance. This time they film the patterns of turbulence in motion as a real-time visualization of the spatio-temporal behaviour of the camanchaca, specially broadcasted for the Garden presented by PRISMA in Ars Electronica 2020. They take advantage of the coincidence of the Festival’s date with one of the best times of the year for the observation of camanchaca in abundance. The project shows KMNCHK ScanLab functioning on-site, as well as the multiple artefacts spread upon this particular landscape which are used to monitor and harvest the cloud, such as weather stations, fog catchers and scientific settlements.

Architect graduated from Universidad Católica de Chile. Since 2013 produces an output of work from a transdisciplinary scope, using methods and space-analysis techniques coming from the architectural practice, in combination with the use of light, artifacts, photo, video and data to modulate new interactions between coexisting entities in the material world. Has produced site-specific interventions in spaces of diverse features, always asking questions about matter, space, perception, climate, ecology and the state of nature in the contemporary moment. Currently works as independent architect, musician and media artist; as general director in KMNCHK ScanLab (2019) and producer in Nêbula (2020); a forthcoming documentary about his work with the camachaca fog.

http://www.mauriciolacrampette.com

MA in Documentary Cinematography from the Universidad de Chile, filmmaker and teacher in the same University. His work ponders the appropriation of images, such as in the short films Imágenes Huérfanas, Input-output and Ejercicios de Montaje. He has also developed different video essays with Caos-Germen: documentary filmmakers collective. In his last project entitled Nebula | volumen en suspensión he worked together with a visual artist and an anthropologist making an expedition to the Atacama desert to study the behaviour of the fog. They studied and registered the patterns of the water that can be photographed by crossing the fog with a laser projector. This project was exposed in the Bienal de Artes Mediales at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile (2019). He currently works as a professor at both the University of Chile and the Arcos Institute.

https://www.sebastianfilmmaker.com/

NEBULA ARCHIVES

This section presents a cloud of suspended material surrounding the NEBULA Project: a cloud of work produced before, during and after the first expedition of the team. The cloud comprises fog-scans, weather datasheets, landscape photos, an expedition journey log, sketches, artefacts blueprints, topographical maps, GPS coordinates, laser visibility tests and footage of Suspensión / Traducción / Amplificación, which has been the first output of the project for the 14° Bienal de Artes Mediales (Santiago, 2019).

Nebula 01
Nebula 02
Nebula 03
Nebula 05
Nebula 04
Nebula 06
Nebula 07
Nebula 08
Nebula 09
Nebula 10
Nebula 11
Nebula 12
Nebula 13
Nebula 14
Nebula 15

Round Table

Turbulent Flow: Chaos Theory and Camanchaca´s Behavior in Atacama Desert

Moderator: Jazmín Adler

In the NEBULA Project, the chaotic inner geometry of camanchaca´s water droplets in motion unfolds a thorough investigation on mathematical notions, which may explain natural behaviours such as the dynamic of this very particular coastal fog. The artist Mauricio Lacrampette and the mathematician Alejandro Jofré exchange ideas on chaos theory and turbulent flow at the vast Atacama Desert of Northern Chile.

  • Alejandro Jofré
  • Mauricio Lacrampette

Researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) and Professor at the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universidad de Chile. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from France and a Post-Doctorate from the University of California. He has been a professor at the Universities of Paris 1-Sorbonne and University of California-Davis, as well as guest professor in the US and Europe. Alejandro Jofré has a significant research career in the areas of optimization, economic equilibrium, and variational analysis and network economics. He is associate editor of several journals and books on mathematics and engineering. He is currently Universidad de Chile´s Prorector. He lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

Architect graduated from Universidad Católica de Chile. Since 2013 produces an output of work from a transdisciplinary scope, using methods and space-analysis techniques coming from the architectural practice, in combination with the use of light, artifacts, photo, video and data to modulate new interactions between coexisting entities in the material world. Has produced site-specific interventions in spaces of diverse features, always asking questions about matter, space, perception, climate, ecology and the state of nature in the contemporary moment. Currently works as independent architect, musician and media artist; as general director in KMNCHK ScanLab (2019) and producer in Nêbula (2020); a forthcoming documentary about his work with the camachaca fog.