{"id":3774,"date":"2024-02-07T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/disappearance\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:34:47","slug":"disappearance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/en\/disappearance\/","title":{"rendered":"(dis)appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"banner alignfull \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min.png)\">>\n        <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"content\">\n            <h1>\n                (dis)appearance            <\/h1>\n                        <p>\n                Arash AKBARI (Iran), immersive installation            <\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-violet-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d7dd37c5f1c6d345fa39052edef88e8f\">(dis)appearance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Telecommunication technologies promise us the ability to be anywhere at any time. They result in reaching a destination while no departure has happened. The appearance of a destination is the sudden disappearance of the previous one. Thus no meaning, ground, or narrative is possible and every moment collapses in on itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Byung-Chul Han wrote: &#8220;The atomization of life goes hand in hand with an atomization of identity. All we have is ourselves, our little ego. We are subject to a radical loss of space and time, even of the world, of being-with.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In (dis)appearance, hundreds of AI-generated windows with views of places that don&#8217;t exist, randomly (dis)appear in an empty Euclidean space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"http:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min-1024x585.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3129\" style=\"border-radius:20px;aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min-1536x878.png 1536w, https:\/\/recto-vrso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/disappearance-min-2048x1170.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center  has-background\">The artist<\/h2>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-violet-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-25b763773f180d19658c9f64e942e4c6\">Arash AKBARI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Arash Akbari is a transdisciplinary artist, based in Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His interest in dynamic art systems, human perception, nonlinear narrative, and the co-existence between physical and digital worlds compelled him to explore the fields of generative systems, interaction design, immersive technologies, and real-time processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a critical mindset toward the dominant paradigm of technology, he examines the counternarratives in which computational processes, interactive cybernetic systems, and their emergent behaviors can evoke concepts, ideas, and questions as well as social and emotional responses and impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akbari directs his experimental practices into audio-visual performances and installations, interactive software, and multisensory experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His music compositions investigate experimental approaches to sound generation, field recordings, acoustic instrumentation, digital synthesis, DSP, and noise to create immersive sonic environments that explore the agency of autonomous systems, audification, indeterminacy, memory, and the perception of time and space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-turquoise-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arashakbari.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt; 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