El Problema de la Percepción Submolecular (The Problem of Submolecular Perception)

2020
single channel video, HD, 09:14
spanish with english subtitles

sound design: Andy MacArthur
in collaboration with: Adrián Hernández Nájera, Amelia Criollo Calvo, Inés Sroczyñski Merino, Karla Garduño García, León Meléndez Cuéllar, Maria Maafs, Montserrat López, Montserrat Nava Cuahutle, Raquel Reyes Galindo

This experimental video was developed during a residency at Laboratorio de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnologia, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. It was the result of a series of participatory workshops with a group of undergraduate and masters students at Tecnológico de Monterrey, who were studying across photography, film, visual arts, nanoscience, and engineering.

In the digital processes we used there was a blinding at play, we were attempting to represent something that humans only have theoretical knowledge of, rather than a phenomena we have experienced with our perceptual and sensory systems. We were not trying to explicitly illustrate submolecular phenomena, but to create a sense of probability, dynamism, wave-particle duality and uncertainty. The abstract visuals combine with a documentary voiceover that anchors the viewer’s experience of the images within the physical submolecular realm.

The work was donated to the Colección del Tecnológico de Monterrey.