The video works on two levels of microscopic observation: the first line of recordings shows the transformation of a non-living (inorganic) substance from one physical state to another – namely, the process of crystallization, which involves the transformation of an ionic liquid state into a solid matter triggered for the purpose of maintaining a balanced system. The recording of the formation of various crystal types is interrupted by a set of static images of geometrically-shaped concentric patterns or grids, which function to periodically interrupt the visual field. These images illustrate the technological structure of the view and simultaneously reveal another level of microscopic visualization. The compositions consisting of points of light on a dark background that are reminiscent of stellar constellations or similar are the result of electronic diffraction on crystals, which allows the visualization of crystals in inverse space.
The system of microscopic lenses reveals the inverse (reciprocal) multidimensional space, which is mathematically expressed in complex numbers as the ratio between the real and imaginary values. Although the crystal images appear to be simplified, the reciprocal space in fact contains far more information than the physical three-dimensional reality that we typically inhabit. At the same time, microscopic observation of magical landscapes featuring the birth of crystals reveals the sublime beauty of multidimensional space, which extends beyond the mere visual to the limits of the intelligible. (Source: Uršula Berlot)
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2017
Video created for the track Cast to the Bottom from the album The Great Crater by Scanner (Glacial Movements, 2017). Composed of landscape 3d digital simulation and digitally processed video recordings, the video shows a virtual journey through an imagina...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2017
The round-shaped form in the process of constant transformation is based on the idea of simulating life at the molecular level. The structure which periodically resembles a virus structure, complex proteins or carbon fullerenes, is being decomposed, trans...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2016
The sound-kinetic diorama submerged within and enhanced by the audio environment observed through an opening in the surface of a crystal-shaped object imitates the structural makeup of carbon nanotubes visible through a microscope. A hub of tubes creates...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2014-2016
A miniature silver landscape in motion that can be viewed through the observation perforation in the surface of a cristal-like object is based on the photographs of magnetic fluids that served as the basis for digital model development and the resulting 3D...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2014
The recording of dynamic forms of magnetic fluids that are produced by invisible magnetic fields directs the experience of the material in relation to the immaterial. The ferrofluid structures, which are in reality only a few centimeters in height, being...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
Light-kinetic installation; turntable, silver plating plexiglass dim. 70 x 90 cm, light reflections variable dimensions sound: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud.
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
The repeated kaleidoscopic video was created on the basis of X-ray image of a spine and projected back over the original radiological image printed on aluminum support. Such projection creates layering, a kind of spatial superposition into a repetitive hy...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
Kaleidoskopski video temelji na radioloških posnetkih avtoričinih možganov. Posnetek nevronskih povezav, ki jih prikazuje traktografija (difuzijska MRI) je računalniško prezrcaljen in projiciran na dve vzporedni plošči pleksi stek...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
Video Vanitas – Self-portrait presents a hypnotic image of the continuous dissolution of the author’s face, skull, and brain. The repetitive liquefying interplay between the exterior and the technologically-visualized exterior posits the quest...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2010
Video installation Introspection composed of three video installations/projections and sound. The installations Kaleidoscopic Gaze and Spiral Floating are based on digitally- processed radiological images of my brain activity while contemplating Duchamp&...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2007
The video combines medical recordings of the brain and computer manipulation of those images. This animated image becomes symmetrical and dehumanized. We get a completely abstract arena, which reminds us of outer space. The author's cerebral area becomes...