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Magdalena Hart




My practice is nurtured by critical art, ecology, and digital technology. Through my work, I aim to construct narratives and tools that deepen my relationship with the environments I inhabit.

What began in 2019 with the question “How can we integrate nature into an increasingly digitalized era?” evolved in 2023 into “How can we imagine a future limited by alack of vocabulary?”

Here you will find a collection of my artworks taken forward since 2018.



A Skin of Soil

Together we’ll share a navigation of the year of the snake to embody new skins. A series of narrative stories and speculations that play with the concept of resurrection by fire.

In collaboration with Akyute, Alice Sparkly Kat will read a silly horror story about a snake, a fable about skin, and give a forecast for 2025 year of the Wood Snake. We center this storytelling experience around the theme of regeneration.


Locations
2025: Sonar Festival, Barcelona, ES


Paisaje Sonoro

Paisaje Sonoro is a performance and site specific installation, a series initiated in March 2021 throughout a performative arts residency program taken forward at PAR, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Awards:
2021: PAR Residencia en Artes Performáticas, Montevideo, Uruguay
2022: Selection, 50ta Premios de Artes Visuales de Montevideo, Uruguay

Locations
2021: CCD, Punta del Este, UY.
2021: Eyddos, José Ignacio UY.
2021: CCE, Montevideo, UY.
2021: Ars Electrónica + Quo Artis, Universidad de Barcelona.
2021: NTS Radio, Club Romántico, UK.
2021: Neo Festival, Cosmo Caixa, Barcelona, ES.
2021: Máquina Festival, MMMAD + Las Cigarreras, Alicante, ES.
2022: Subte, Montevideo, UY.
2022: MMMAD, HyperHouse, Madrid, ES.
2022: Il.lacions Design Gallery, Barcelona, ES
2022: Mira Festival, Barcelona, ES
2022: Bocca di Bonifacio, Barcelona, ES



The performance reflects upon antropocentric perceptions of more-than-human intelligences. The performer generates a live audio/visual soundscape through the biodata visualization system connected to the plants inhabiting the installation.
 
The installation evokes elemental materials such as light, water, air, earth, and electricity. It is a piece in constant transition and dialogue with its environment. The glass objects are designed to guide the growth of the stem and roots of the plant, incorporating the plants movement as part of the sculpture, evolving over time.


Espiral

Espiral is a sculpture designed in 2021 as part of the interactive installation created for Paisaje Sonoro, a performative series that generates a live soundscape through the biodata visualization system connected to the plants inhabiting the installation.

They are currently on exhibition and sale at Il.lacions Gallery and Adorno Gallery.


Locations:
2022 “Paisaje II”, Mira Festival
2022: Madrid Design Festival 2022, “Inteferences” Il.lacions, Madrid, ES.
2022: 50a Premios de Artes Visuales, Subte, Montevideo, UY.
2022: MMMad x Las Cigarreras x Todo Bien 2021 “Paisaje Sonoro #6” Akyute, Alicante, ES.
2021: Neo Festival x Cosmo Caixa 2021 “Paisaje Sonoro #5” Akyute, Barcelona, ES.
2022: Bocca di Bonifacio, Barcelona, ES



The piece is designed to guide the growth of the stem and roots of the plant, becomming in constant transition and dialogue with its environment. The plants movement becomes part of the sculpture, evolving over time. It is the result of a previous investigation regarding plant-intelligence alongside Akyute.

The spiral shape symbolizes the life order, continuity, development and motion.






Time, Force and Space

Body breaking and making. This is an ongoing investigation between Nona Siepmann,  Daphne Xanthopoulou and Akyute which explores the way in which digital interaction influences our body language. By intersecting movement and real-time generative code we can establish new performative forms, patterns and narratives based on this interaction.

Awards
“Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.”
#TakeHeart #TakeHeartNeustart Fonds Darstellende Künste



Together we open dialogue to question: what are the sounds and movements of our bodies in these future worlds? 

See glimpse here and here

As digital technology becomes ever more rooted internally, rendering as invisible, we come to humanize it, outsourcing our processes of self-awareness at the risk of desensitising our connection to our own bodies. where at a lack of randomness, there is a disenchantment of the human experience. as the body was reduced to measurements, the community was reduced to individuals and the earth reduced to property. In this piece the movement constructs a digital landscape that begs to respond to flesh, but the system cannot interpret from what the body experiences and from where it dances. We can breathe life into digital technology without losing our humanity. How can I be present to this duality?