“montanamex” by Eduardo Garcia (2014)
“Eduardo Garcia, a chef who lost his arm and now uses advanced mechanical prosthetics to continue the pursuit of his passion: food.”
“Eduardo Garcia, a chef who lost his arm and now uses advanced mechanical prosthetics to continue the pursuit of his passion: food.”
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<p>”This work is concerned with how we, as human beings, inhabit this world and experience our place in it. We live in both a physical world and a spiritual metaphysical world. Both exist within and around us but are experienced very differently. This work sets up a juxtaposition of forms that suggest this experience. Mass is used as a visual form to convey notions of the bounded physical domain. The unbounded metaphysical domain is conveyed by movement of sound between the forms. The tangible stationary bulk of the suspended spheres co-exist with the intangible ephemerality of the sound piece. “</p>
The Foot Tap Amplifier draws the wearer’s attention to their own nervous habits by amplifying them.
The MYO is a gesture control armband, very similar to what Daito Manabe did, but with Bluetooth 4.0.
White lights hung above the viewer respond to sound and make organic-looking patterns and waves.