Martina Mezak (HR), Urania, 2006
About work
Urania is a cloud-making device. It allows us to control the cloud density by blowing up clouds and deals with the technological simulation of nature. An aesthetically pleasing ambience generated through the imitation of pleasant and calming natural phenomena is replicated in the gallery space. The interactive visual imagery allows the user to participate in the creation of a virtual sky, to create or disperse clouds. Due to the ‘immateriality’ of matter in this ‘clouds-air installat...read more
About author
Martina Mezak is a multimedia artist, born in Zagreb in 1973. Her work is based on multidisciplinary research in the fields of art, technology and cognition and she seeks to investigate human perception in relations with phenomenology of senses and possibilities of cognition. She is particularly interested in borders between comprehensible and incomprehensible experience and how it can affects conception of one's reality. Mezak has exhibited at a number of individual and grou...read more