Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival presents LEAFlets

Join us at The End Lafayette at Dog House Music Studios on Saturday, March 7th for Insecta and Salar: Adaptation. Doors open at 6:30PM and the show starts at 7PM with cocktails, beer, wine, cider and seltzers, plus some snacks and coffee to help y’all enjoy your night!

INSECTA

A sound-object installation by Chilean artist Fernando Godoy that is activated performatively as an environment of light, sound, and movement.

The work invites us to immerse in a space that is progressively animated by small kinetic devices, which generate a series of sound/visual interactions with everyday materials and objects through their autonomous behavior.

Fernando Godoy (1977, Valparaíso, Chile)

Sound artist, curator and director of Tsonami Arte Sonoro. His work investigates sound and listening as a space for relationships that traverse territory and bodies, developing a practice that encompasses installations, radio broadcasts, concerts, listening actions, performances, and publications. He has presented his work at festivals and venues in Chile, Argentina, México, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, and Germany.

Salar: Adaptation is a live audiovisual performance by Anna Friz and Rodrigo Ríos Zunino combining the sonic, electro-magnetic, and visual textures recorded and filmed in Atacama with a science fiction incorporating space mission communications, live electronics, and voice.

“Deserts on Earth have served as a training ground for off-planet travel to Mars; meanwhile, Earth’s ecology becomes a little more like Mars every day. A Martian returns to the damaged planet, while feral earthlings born of industrial and wild life strive to adapt.”

Salar: Adaptation is part of a suite of media artworks entitled We Build Ruins. It reconsiders the industrialized Atacama Desert in northern Chile, by understanding it as a place once covered by water, as an arid environment described by rare geologic and organic systems, and as a high-altitude mining site transformed and abused by global infrastructures. Robotic extra-planetary modules such as the Mars Rovers have been tested here, and the mining techniques currently being developed in Atacama contribute to billionaire’s dreams for eventual off-planet mining operations. However, deserts are not ‘wastelands’ good only for exploitaton. Through live concert and video, Salar: Adaptation proposes listening, sensing, and adaptation as alternatives to dominion and extraction.

Bios:

Anna and Rodrigo have been collaborating together since 2017, undertaking intensive research in the Atacama Desert in Chile, resulting in a suite of performances, installations, short films, scholarship, and a feature film in progress.

Anna Friz is a Canadian transmission, sound, and media artist. Anna is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and won the Karl Sczuka Prize for radio art in 2024. She has presented work internationally since 1998; recent venues include The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, The Lab (San Francisco), Sonic Pavilion (Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago), Sonandes Bienal Internacional de Arte Sonoro (La Paz, Bolivia), Bienal Sur (Argentina), Heroines of Sound Festival (Berlin Germany), esc Medien Kunst Labor (Graz, Austria), Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, Germany), Radio Art Zone (Esch-Zur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria), RE:SOUND Festival (Aalborg, Denmark) and more. Her radio artworks have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Denmark, and Spain, and heard on public and independent airwaves all over the world. She is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Rodrigo Ríos Zunino is an Ecuadorean/Chilean media artist dedicated to sound, radio and the intersection between the invisible fields that surround us and the material plane of existence. Recent presentations of his work include Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Festival Fungi, Festival Toda la Teoría del Universo, Sonandes Bienal Internacional de Arte Sonoro in La Paz, Bolivia; Bienal Sur, Argentina; Radio Art Zone, Esch-Zur-Alzette, Luxembourg; and esc Median Kunst Labor in Graz, Austria. He is currently co-director of radiotsonami.org and part of Tsonami Arte Sonoro in Valparaíso, Chile.