This is a short trailer for my video “The Mind’s Egg”.
The full video is 2:30 long and is shown on festivals and exhibitions.
Screenings:
• 2024: TRANSGRESSION art + technology, curated by Hernando Urrutia, Madeira, Portugal.
• September 27 – October 3, 2023: Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos, Greece.
• August 29 – September 2, 2023: The Surrealist Summer Vacation Camp Los Angeles / Cologne 2023, The Surrealists Project – Vacations in the Subconscious curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne / The New Museum of Networked Art, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
• July 13-15, 2023: Surrealist Vacation Resort Ottersberg 2023, The Surrealists Project – Vacations in the Subconscious curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne / The New Museum of Networked Art in collaboration with Institut für Alles Mögliche, Performance + Medientage Ottersberg / Bremen, Germany.
• June 30 – December 31, 2023: ON SCREEN Festival, Pi ]π[ Digitꓯl MulTiverse, Goes:art, Vienna.
• June 30 – July 31, 2023: FONLAD 2023, International Video Art & Performance Festival, Coimbra (PT) and online.
• June 17-18, 2023, The Surrealist Vacations Resort Berlin 2023, The Surrealists Project – Vacations in the Subconscious curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne / The New Museum of Networked Art, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin.
• May 20, 2023, Licuadora Alternativa vol. 5.5 (The Secret Garden), Caracas, Venezuela.
• April 14-23, 2023: Eggsibition, Neuköllner Salon, Berlin.
• April 1-16, 2023: Uovo d’artista, Il Granarone, Calcata VT, Italy.
Keep in touch to be informed about screenings!
Description:
The metaphore of the mind’s egg refers to some of the highly estimated potentialities of the human mind that we know as creativity, innovation, and originality. Just like an egg contains the genetic material and nutrients necessary for the growth of a new organism, the mind’s egg contains the ideas and fundamentals, knowledge and experiences that may give birth to inventions, new insights or new art forms.
I had these ideas in mind when I began working on this video. I started with a 3D animated egg and then continued with an animated chalk drawing on a blackboard. The drawn figures seem to come out of the egg, but at the same time they nest the egg in a protected environment. When the drawing is completed, the egg and the figures undergo a transformation. The result is a dynamic digital microcosmos.
To add a commentary on this evolution I consulted an artificial intelligence nonetheless capable of expressing ideas and thoughts. I prompted ChatGPT to write a short poem about The Mind’s Egg. After several unsuccessful attempts, it produced the following poem:
Nest the mind
Mind the nest
Where thoughts take flight
And dreams can rest.
I thought the verses were appropriate to end the video with.
title: The Mind’s Egg
technique: Digital/analogue animation video
length: 2’30”
year: 2023
music: “light-o-logic” by Edoardo Pistolesi Somigli, from the album “Congenital Cataract of the Eye” (MuteAntSounds)
poem: ChatGPT
concept, images, drawings, animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal
© Maria Korporal 2023
* Edoardo Pistolesi Somigli is co-founder & Station Manager @ Dots Unlimited Radio, a multichannel webradio dedicated to free music, sound research and new forms of communication and language: www.duradio.net
Knob-twiddler in the field of experimental music, fond of all possible links between sound and psychology, undergoing multiple ambient/noise/psychoacoustic creative projects plus -within the scientific community- currently approaching sounds and frequencies to be applied in several alternative cognitive-behavioral therapies in the treatment of various forms of OCD, freely and originally inspired by some tests conducted by Jean Piaget in the 40s of last century. He has also collaborated with Maria Korporal in the projects Pervitin Power, ZoOm into my Room and Is a dot a black hole?
