INSTALLATION «Unearth» by Diana Carmenate and Kira Wieckenberg
Final project by the students of the International Master’s Degree in Multimedia Creation for the Live Shows
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The #MICME. Interactive Art Festival is an exhibition of the final projects of the Master’s students, tutored by the teaching staff. The festival highlights the role of multimedia and technologies as the core of the artistic experience: live audiovisuals, performances and interactive improvisations in real time.
«Unearth, at its core, a laser beam becomes the instrument that unearths hidden worlds. The experience is dynamic and ephemeral. Periodically, the light beam undertakes a spiralling movement, triggering a cascade of images and videos projected from a single point. These portals to other times, lives and worlds manifest themselves fleetingly before the viewers’ eyes, only to disappear into silence. Each unearthed portal carries with it its poetic discourse, its metaphors and deviations. Unearth reminds us that light, image and sound shape our intimate universes, have the power to unearth hidden memories and forge our shared humanity. A call to penetrate, crack and explore the terra incognita.»
Diana Carmenate and Kira Wieckenberg
MICME International Master’s Degree in Multimedia Creation for Live Shows
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Diana Carmenate, student of the 2nd promotion of the MICME. International Master in Multimedia Creation for Live Shows at LABA Valencia, graduated in July 2024.
Designer, illustrator, teacher, Vu and poet; trained in Cuba and with a consolidated professional career in Uruguay. The only woman to have won twice the Coral Award for Best Poster at the International
Poster at the International Latin American Film Festival. Her posters have been shown in 17 exhibitions in 9 countries. She has worked for international institutions such as UNICEF, Amnesty International, Radio Ambulante – NPR, Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO, PAHO, FAO, Intendencia de Montevideo. She is in charge of video-scenes for several bands such as Kumbiaracha, Dostrescinco, Juli Taramasso and Latasónica.
Kira Wieckenberg, student of the 2nd promotion of the MICME. International Master in Multimedia Creation for Live Shows at LABA Valencia, she graduated in July 2024.
She is a multimedia artist. Although she works with various media such as video, performance, sculpture and drawing, she focuses on the creation of immersive and atmospheric multimedia installations.
For Kira Wieckenberg, every artistic process must begin with a question, a problem, an enigma. Her work revolves around the human experience of living in a complex world, in the suspense of ignorance, fear and ambiguity.
It provokes the entanglement of the human psyche with the supposedly self-evident rule systems of games. His avatars are always in a state of limbo between paralysis and the ability to play.
Wieckenberg understands herself as a sculptor and works with materials such as ceramics, glass and textiles, among others. In the central act of sewing and dressing costumes of imaginary characters, she perceives her own body as a tool in her sculptural work. By combining video projection with sculpture, she extends the space of the video into the present space, thus recognising the projection as part of the three-dimensional, sculptural process. This process is never stationary, always evolving and moving.
Through a colourful visual world of childlike symbolism, Wieckenberg plays with the expectations of his viewers. When his characters do not behave according to the prescribed symbol, these expectations are dashed and the viewer is left vulnerable. In this moment of vulnerability lies a subversive power: by realising that an assumed system of meaning is empty, you can sense the possibility of new ways of seeing. When one finds oneself unable to solve an enigma, one can begin to enjoy its absurdity.
Kira Wieckenberg lives and works in Hannover and Valencia. In 2022 she finished her studies of fine arts at the University of Art in Braunschweig with a diploma with honours, showing the solo exhibition ‘es gibt torte’. Since the end of 2023 she has been studying for a Master’s degree in Multimedia Creation at the LABA Valencia University with the support of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, of which she has been a scholarship holder since 2021.
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