Cymatics (from Greek: "wave") is the study of visible sound and vibration, a subset of modal phenomena. As Deleuze shows in his works on Spinoza, resources involved in the genesis of form are immanent to matter itself, instead of seeing matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside.
Working in this frame of an alternative model of genesis of form, one in which is not imposed on matter from the outside, Cymatics Disport lies between audiovisual performance and form finding processes through material properties.
This installation came out of the mexican underground in 2011 as an architecture exercise in emergent systems, morphogenesis and questioning of the limiting line between biological and material life. Creating waves in the international media art scene, as a novel and elegant approach to morphogenesis and an exercise in audiovisual performance, it worked as a conceptual philosophical statement in art, design, science and manufacture.
Its hybrid and poetic use of multilayer meanings read as a piece beyond the technology narrative.
Cymatics Disport marks a breaking point in Jorge Ramirez's career by being selected to be part of the historical Art and Science exhibition in Beijing, China, organized by Tsinghua University, and held in the Science and Technology Museum in 2012. Gathering the best media artworks from the world as an effort to fill the aspiration from Chinese society to incorporate technological art. Jorge Ramirez was the only Latin American artist to be featured in this exhibition and was part of the finalist artworks in the art and science prize.
Also represents the success of the artist as a pioneering Mexican artist in the art scene of Beijing, after collaborations with different art spaces in Cao Chandi Art district in Beijing.
3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium Beijing, 2012, Project MUSE.
Transreal Topologies Exhibition, MARart4.
MARart4/Transreal Topologies Exhibition, ISMAR 2013.
Media, Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities & Design
Workshop (MASH'D), IEEE Xplore.
Diarios Efímeros - Live Coding en el MUAC, MUAC.
