Control
Tansy Xiao
Control is a gesture-controlled interactive video choir constituted by 16 clips each featuring mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland’s mouth singing to a graphic score that reflects significant stock chart from the beginning of the pandemic till present times (2020-2022).
The score includes charts of typical YOLO investing strategy stocks (Gamestop, AMC) that represent an attempt of individual opportunists trying to push the change of the economy; monopolistic corporations that raise ethical concerns (Facebook, Amazon) and pharmaceutical companies that are visibly profiting from the pandemic (Pfizer, Moderna).
By moving their body to the motion capturing webcam based on the choreography preassigned via machine learning (ml5.js), the audience experiences a fake sense of control of the choir—but do they really?
Control is a satire against capitalism and a bitter laugh at the awkward economic state that a lot of people find themselves in post-pandemic.
Tansy Xiao
Artist, curator and writer based in New York. Xiao creates theatrical installations with non-linear narratives that often extend beyond the fourth wall. Her work examines the power and inadequacy of language, furthermore, substantiates the multiplicity of being human through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. Xiao’s work has been shown at Queens Museum, Piksel Festival, The American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Osaka University of Art, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New Adventures in Sound Art, Pelham Art Center, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, SRO Gallery among others.
RECODE Online Exhibition
RECODE has admitted a resonance of the culture of the creative coding community as a plural movement of interpretation, reclaim, revisit, and/or resignification of artworks and fundamental practices of early computer graphics and art and its subsequent works through the usage of contemporary media, tools, and technologies.
We invite you to explore how artists, academics, researchers, and practitioners explored and interpreted the notion of recode in their works.
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