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by Atractor/Semantica
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
Atractor Studios is a visual arts collective by Juan Cortes, Juan Jose Lopez, Juan Camilo Quinones and Alejandro Villegas. Semantica Productions is an XR film and research lab founded by Jemma Foster and Camilla French.
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by Atractor/Semantica
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
Atractor Studios is a visual arts collective by Juan Cortes, Juan Jose Lopez, Juan Camilo Quinones and Alejandro Villegas. Semantica Productions is an XR film and research lab founded by Jemma Foster and Camilla French.
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by Atractor/Semantica
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
Atractor Studios is a visual arts collective by Juan Cortes, Juan Jose Lopez, Juan Camilo Quinones and Alejandro Villegas. Semantica Productions is an XR film and research lab founded by Jemma Foster and Camilla French.
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by Atractor/Semantica
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
A Tale of Two Seeds: Sound and Silence in Latin America's Andean Plains is a subversive sound installation interrogating the problematic expansion of agro-industrial technologies in Latin America, and new forms of colonialism represented by genetic engineering, the privatisation of seeds and land sovereignty.
The sound installation that explores food sovereignty, deforestation, and the preservation of biodiversity through the story of soy monoculture and its expansion in South American territories. The main body of research behind the project is concerned with how the aggressive practices of agroindustry GM monocultures have had an irreversible and detrimental effect on the land. The amaranth grain also plays a key role in this story. Categorised as a parasite, amaranth has been resistant to even Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ pesticide, and is the largest threat to soy monocultures. This work draws attention to the fact that amaranth, before being villainized, occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples, and is an essential grain that circulates outside the predominant agro-industrial matrix. The corporate solution to combat amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy plants in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. For this work, Atractor, together with Semantica, used various sound recording devices and specialised microphones to create soundscapes that document the enormous loss of diversity that agro-industrial expansion causes.
This project will exhibit in Austria at Prix Ars Electronica 2023 as the winner of the Golden Nica, in the category of Digital Music and Sound Art.
Atractor Studios is a visual arts collective by Juan Cortes, Juan Jose Lopez, Juan Camilo Quinones and Alejandro Villegas. Semantica Productions is an XR film and research lab founded by Jemma Foster and Camilla French.
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