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Hidden Topology of Being, 3-channel video projection, 21', 2012

The work embraces a series of multimedia works realized with the support of research centers in India and recently in Poland: the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi, CEMA Centre for Experimental Media Art & the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.

The protein molecule named the basic brick of life is processed and set as a video animation. The artist is excited by the very fact that 'we cannot see basic bricks of life, but collecting data from different instruments we can elaborate their amazing molecular topologies'.The protein leads us to questions how scientific and cultural imageries influence each other in shaping our today understanding and knowledge and how technologies modulate these relations. The deeper we look inside the (animated) matter the deeper we dive into the space of technologies, data interpretation and imagination.

Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich works in the field of media art and experimental video/animation, dealing with sustainability of synergy between Art, Science and Technology. She is a founder of the Art & Science Node in Berlin.Works as a professor (Dr. hab.) at the University of Arts in Poznan. Art residencies include: BioQuant Centre / DKFZ / Heidelberg University DE; Academy of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg, DE; CEMA Centre for Electronic Media Art /Srishti College & NCBS National Centre of Biological Science, Bangalore; KHOJ & ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi.