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Adenium & Crystalline Control (2020)

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The projects Adenium and Crystalline Control investigate the evolving relationship between technology and human perception, proposing new modes of interaction between the corporeal and the digital. They raise critical questions central to contemporary media art: How might individuals engage with immaterial digital forms that exist exclusively within virtual environments? What constitutes the shared ground necessary for authentic interactivity? And where do we draw the boundaries between artistic practice, technological experimentation, and entertainment culture — between the act of control and the experience of interaction?

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Both works articulate how the emergence of new techniques and technological tools can serve as catalysts for rethinking the sources of cognitive and cultural transformation. Presented as video-based installations — or media sculptures— they employ visual programming environments (like vvvv) to enable responsive and generative behaviour. In Adenium, digital petals react to sound and applause, while Crystalline Control introduces a virtual crystal manipulated through a “living” crystal joystick embedded with sensors and an Arduino microcontroller.

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By merging living and virtual systems, these works construct a space where human presence, digital responsiveness, and material interfaces converge. The installations foreground the shifting dynamics of perception and agency in an era defined by technological mediation, inviting viewers to experience the fragile continuum between organic life and computational abstraction.