Mem1 | Projects

Visiting Hours | 2009
"Visiting Hours" is a site-specific audiovisual composition created by Mark + Laura Cetilia for the Laptopia #5 exhibition at the Museums of Bat Yam, Israel. Recordings of the museum and the other artists working in the space were gathered by Mark (video) and Laura (sound) during the week prior to the opening. These recordings were used to create a library of material from which we each produced a finished work, and then exchanged. Laura then created a new work with cello and electronics based on Mark's video ("East"), and Mark created a video based on Laura's manipulated field recordings ("West"). The results are two synchronized audiovisual works installed as a single dual-channel audio / visual piece for the exhibition at MoBY.

To view project documentation, go to: http://www.vimeo.com/mem1

Sonodendron | 2007
Sonodendron is a fully immersive work that explores the sonic potentials of cello and electronics on both a microscopic and macroscopic scale. With a 5.1 Surround Sound score by Mem1 and video by internationally acclaimed media artist Liora Belford, Sonodendron is a visceral tour through the bowels and extremities of the cello.

For more information, go to: http://www.duprass.com

Infinite Delay | 2006
"A restrained subject surrenders to a sublime state of waiting in a mysterious underwater world." –Sundance Film Festival

Infinite Delay is an experimental film short that features mesmerizing underwater visuals with a breathtaking, immersive soundscape. This swirling pool of interrelated sounds and imagery features an original score with processed signal paths by Kadet along with artists Mem1, a collaborative venture between Laura Thomas-Merino and M. Cera in which sounds generated by extended cello technique are manipulated using custom software built in Max/MSP.

Infinite Delay is a film about the sublime nature of consciousness. It explores the subtleties of tension that exist between surrender and resistance through an unconventional, experiential narrative. The captivating underwater images of a restrained subject present a dialectic - possibly depicting someone who is being forced to wait, or alternatively representing a subject actively engaged in the erotics of waiting. The voiceless figure in this mysterious subterranean world investigates how renunciation could be an affirmation of power and a means of absolute embodiment. The sensing body in its inaction surrenders itself, and all questions of identity and placement are dissolved into a virtual suspension of absolute definition. The result is a blurring of lines - between the inner and outer world, self and other, and past and present.

For more information, go to: http://www.tektonicshift.com