Maker Faire Los Angeles 2023
Martancho
Home: California, United States
Zen-borg is an audio-visual, biofeedback piece. The idea consists in creating a sensorial experience that is directly influenced by the performer's vital signs who's wearing custom built and modified heart beat and brainwaves detectors.
http://martancho.com/zenborg/
Maker
Martin Velez
Born in Bogota, Martin Velez lives in Los Angeles area. Martin’s work focuses in creating socially meaningful artistic statements by combining music, sound, science and technology into one single interactive experience. His installation works have been presented in several art galleries in Los Angeles and Bogota. His work aims to create social consciousness and self-awareness within the audience, both at a personal and environmental level. Martin holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Sound Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, and a Master in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in music technology with a thesis in biofeedback music under the tutelage of David Rosenboom.
http://martancho.com/What Inspired You to Make This?
Heart surgery at birth set up the base for a lifetime interaction with biofeedback devices, particularly EKG. By taking a personal element that defined me since birth, and merging it with a lifetime process of becoming a musician and artist, I adopt and implement the biofeedback cybernetic paradigm into my artistic statement. Zen-borg then, represents also the expression of my current reality in which my research work led to introducing all these theoretical ideas into my artistic performance.
