Untitled  interactive heat installation, Sandra Rosas Ridolfi

Beyond the artworks we appreciate through eyes and ears, Sandra Rosas Ridolfi’s "Untitled" allows audience to enjoy music through heat on their fingertips.  A musical note is translated to soft heat.  People can feel the melody on each fingertip like playing a piano, while they put their hand on the flat-type device.  This creative way of listening music attracts people to enter the Alice’s wonderland.   by Byeong Sam Jeon

Only through our senses are we able to interact and connect with others and our environment. Through the past century we as a society have centered in the sense of sight and have paid little attention to the rest of our senses to recollect information. Touch is essential to all of us and we don't give it much thought. The sense of touch is so much more than texture which is how we usually think of it, temperature sensing is primal to our survival and we are all surrounded by it. We make many assumptions without realizing that due to them we are missing many things in life. This piece's intention is to reflect upon this and the way our senses work to recollect information and connect with it. The squares will draw different forms and patterns with the use of nothing else but temperature.

Biography:

A great deal of my work has been directly related to my health condition experience, which made me very aware of my body, time and how fragile this link is. I am currently walking away from my illness condition (orthostatic intolerance combined with postural taquicardial syndrome) to the more spiritual and intrinsic aspect of what being human means. By shaking or subtracting what we take for granted or given, only then can we become aware of the rules we have set up upon ourselves, or the way we understand the world. What questions do we ask ourselves? Through what eyes do we look at the world? Which are our paradigms? These are the questions that I try to answer through my work. To become aware and show to everyone else the way I look at the world. People may relate to it by similarity or contrast, what matters to me the most is that hopefully, they’ll start questioning. Do we all ask ourselves the same questions? What is consciousness? How does it affect others? My work derives from my everyday life experiences and my intellectual interests. I need to be related to what I’m working on, it’s a commitment.