Originally, the purpose of tattooing went beyond the aesthetic and contained narratives specific to each of the cultures that practiced it, developing unique symbology around each one. The great popularity it has achieved in recent years has transformed the ritual of the act, progressively distancing it from the world of the senses and objectifying it as a commercial good. Therefore, through this project we intend to distance ourselves from the common archetype of tattooing and its current practice, presenting a whole new series of formulations still unknown with which to experience tattooing from other sensory pathways and revalue the act.

Transcription 3.0 is a performance where, through the practice of tattooing and the use of new technologies, a series of live experimental acts are carried out that aim to transcribe a series of sound and light phenomena onto the bodies of both the performers and the audience in order to propose a new tattoo practice where technology is used to reinforce the sensorial act.

In the performance there are three bodies; the tattoo artist, the tattooed person and the interface (Software and Hardware), with independent functions but connected by the same space and time; an act of feedback where bodies communicate with each other through data, fluids, movement and sensations. The new tattoo is revealed not only in the wound, but through devices implemented in the tattoo machine, data is extracted, creating the possibility of transcribing this information using the displacement of sound waves and the movement of light to affect the sense of sight, hearing and touch.

2018

A performance in collaboration with Andre Moreno Ortz

Software: VVVV