systems oriented disruptions
Toward a Design, Art, and Practice of Multitopological Spatiotemporal Hyperlinked Gigamaps

orus mateo castano suarez

Project Description

How can art and design resist urgent systemic injustice by shaping the ways we understand complex information? In Systems Oriented Disruption, Castaño-Suárez responds to this question with three nine-minute installations: the futurist user interface design Torus vs Silos, the deep history sonification Song Within a Sacrifice Zone 2, and the call for critical wellness Failure to Produce.  

Torus vs Silos
2024
Video projection, soundscape, 9’00” 

Castaño-Suárez's research-creation UI futurism imagines designs inspired by Vedic sacred geometry and emerging generative artificial intelligence technology brought together by the interdisciplinary systemic design practice of gigamapping. The video projection captures Castaño-Suárez’s vision for a multitopological spatiotemporal hyperlinked gigamap interface. In presenting Torus vs Silos Castaño-Suárez affirms that art can be a site of scientific innovation. 

Song Within a Sacrifice Zone
2024
Video projection, soundscape, 9’00” 

In their second iteration of Song Within a Sacrifice Zone, Castaño-Suárez centers the Earth as agent with this sonification of the deep history of climate change in the environment-human relationship. The soundscape is visually accompanied by a network graph analysis of the Sixth Assessment Report written by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 

Failure to Produce 
2024 
Video projection, soundscape, 9’00” 

Failure to Produce interrogates how capitalist measures of production shape mental health diagnoses and calls for a critical wellness as resistance. As an audible intervention, Failure to Produce asks the visitor to listen deeply for the unheard. As visible intervention, it projects a network graph analysis of themes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM). The video projection centers people buried nameless in medical history for their own ‘failure to produce.’ This piece was commissioned by curator Sara Dagovic and first presented at the Body of Aesthetics exhibition. 

Sound Samples Used: 

Song Within A Sacrifice Zone 2 

• Dauzakobza, Natural Wind – Winter Blizzard Howling 

• Shilry Spikes, Natures Wrath – Iceberg Breaks Ice Crackling Collapsing 

• Ivo Vicic,  Ice Cold – Ice Blocks on Wet Ice Cover 

• Alexander Kopeikin,  Natural Elements – Iceberg Breaking Away 

• Nick McMahan, Nourishing Nature – Frozen Lake Ice Swooshing Cracking 

• Ivo Vicic, Ice Cold – Ice Blocks Flowing Under Ice Cover 

• Unrealsfx, Extreme Climate – Underwater Earthquake Thud Swirling Rocks Erupting 

• Bleep & Break, Alaska – Glacier Close Up Ice Melting Water Dripping Ice Fragments Falling 

• Nick McMahan, Nourishing Nature – Melting Ice Dripping 

• Ivo Vicic, Bora Wind – Strong Wind Blowing Through Grass 

• Ivo Vicic, Bora Wind – Forest Strong Wind Dead Leaves Rustilng 

• Sam Fourie, Epic Disasters – Sudden Avalanche Ricks Shifting Rumbling 

• OG SoundFX, Boom – Earthquake Landside Crushing Trees 

• DT Sound, Ambience Central – Server Room Room Tone 

• BOOM Library, Cinematic Nature Deep Earthquake Rumbling and Shaking 

• Stefano Trezzi, Retro Interface – Spaceship Computer Scanning 

• Sound Ideas, Explosion 5  

• Sound Ideas, Explosion 1 

• Dauzkobza, Natural Countryside – Windy Flames Soft Fire 

• Dauzkobza, Natural Countryside – Crackling Embers 

• Bjorn Lynne, Flameable – Forest Fire Burning Crackling 

• Unrealsfx, Extreme Climate – Firestorm Wildfire Cataclysm 

• Omnibit Sound, Nature of Japan – Rain on Village Street 

Failure to Produce 

• Artlist Original, Smooth ASMR – Woman Speech Gibberish 

• Flaviu Ciocan, This is Cinema – High Pitch Ring 

• Stefano Trezzi, Modular Textures – Dystopian Whispers and Piano Keys 

• Phil Michalski, Hacking – Computer Short Sequence Digital Click 

• Phil Michalski, Hacking – Updating System Software Data Transfer 

• Giacomo Maraboli, Writing, Pen on Paper Fast Strokes 

• Artlist Original, Deep Impact, Deep Low Impact 

• Artlist Original, Tech Glitch – Sonar Ping

• Udi Zisser, Timeless Transfers – Reverse Cymbal Riser Pulsing Tone Reverb