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Life is Motion

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Artwork

The interactive installation Life is Motion illustrated an allegory between the genetic information of humans and the particular nodal structure of Chladni plates. Physicist and musician Ernst Chladni, dubbed the father of acoustics, researched the motion of vibrating plates in the 19th century. Each object has its own resonant frequency. Artist Nicolas Strappini explored this allegory with a "resonance" installation that invited participants to create their own individual patterns using sand on plates during the Resonances III Festival.

Life is Motion
Life is Motion, 2019, N. Strappini.

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A collaboration between Nicolas Strappini and Daniel Tirelli.

Nicolas Strappini website.

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