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TIFFANY TRENDA : UBIQUITOUS STATES

2,249 views · Published 15 December 2015 · 1:21 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2015 · Education

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Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Joseph Bishara. 

Ubiquitous States is an interactive performance that combines live heartbeats into a data visualization by new media performance artist Tiffany Trenda, 3D Systems (the largest specialized 3D printing company) and award winning designer Janne Kyttanen. Trenda will don a 3D printed dress that has an embedded computer screen. The image on the screen will show a data visualization of both the participant's and Trenda's heartbeat. In Ubiquitous States, the performance will question, if we can have authentic human connections using today's vernacular technology?
During the performance, the artist will approach a spectator and place a heart monitor (located at Trenda's fingertip inside the glove) on the viewer's wrist or neck. Once the sensor reads the pulse of the user, the imagery on the screen will change and show both pulses simultaneously. Trenda and the viewer will try and match their rhythms' to create another change in the animation, making the performance interactive.

Concept:"The amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful." - Paul Valéry The Conquest of Ubiquity 1928. In Veléry's The Conquest of Ubiquity, he describes the current state of our techno-obsessed culture where our tools of precision have changed our behaviors. Today, these tools are primarily our screens (smart phones, tablets, computers, etc.). They give us the ability to download, text, talk, and interact anywhere with the surface of the skin and surface of the computer. Thus, we are living in both the physical and the simulated world simultaneously and we are unable to fully engage in the present. Instead, we are hiding behind our devices and masking our primitive desires of having real time physical interactions. This questions the authenticity of our behaviors using these vernacular technologies. In Ubiquitous States, the performance will unite the heartbeats of both artist and the participant and will measure our emotional connections through the virtual.
 
Tiffany Trenda  is a new media performance artist based out of Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design and her MFA from the University of California Los Angeles, Design and Media Arts program. Trenda won Artist of the Year at the London International Creative Competition Awards and introduced the work, "Entropy" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  She was invited to perform at the 2010 World's Expo, in Shanghai, China at the Heatherwick designed British Pavilion. She also exhibited at Art Hamptons, A+D Museum, Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Boulder Contemporary Art Museum, the Italian Cultural Institute, and Art Miami Context, where she graced the cover of the Miami Herald for the first image of Art Basel 2012. Trenda was included in the performance program at the Metamorphoses of the Virtual - 100 Years of Art and Freedom during the 55th annual Venice Biennale. More recently, Trenda exhibited at the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires and lectured at the 3D Printshow in New York.
http://tiffanytrenda.com/

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at 
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