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Cortina de agua, Pats Saucedo

Santa Lucía Festival kicks off with a spectacular opening.

-Gustavo Mendoza Lemus

Over 20 thousand people assist to the aquatic opening act sprinkled with music and dance.

Monterrey. – To the beat of mexican music and under the light emitted by the dancing fountains, Santa Lucia International Festival kicked off its 2019 edition with a crowd of over 20 thousand people.

The Lago de las Olas (Lake of Waves) in Fundidora Park II was the stage where Fuentes de Santa Lucía (Santa Lucía Fountains) took place, an opening act that sets off 250 cultural events grouped under the phrase: “Las Artes a la Calle”, The Arts to the Streets.

Slightly after 20.30 pm the UANL Symphonic Orchestra, led by maestro Eduardo Diazmuñoz played “Danzón No. 2”, by Arturo Márquez, to awaken the crowd’s interest.

In the background, a series of fountains installed by the French company Aquatique Show blasted water jets to the rhythm of the ensemble, shining in different colors thanks to the light display designed for the show.

Later on, when José Pablo Moncayo´s traditional piece “Huapango” was played, the university ensemble was accompanied by ten dancers from the Ballet de Monterrey Joven troupe, who performed their acts on two stages on the edge of the lake.

In the final part of the show, a water curtain that was framing the event was illuminated in a light show designed by local visual artist Pats Saucedo.

El Bosque Encantado (EL NORTE)

Huge queue to see “woods”

Hundreds of families wait for hours to see the Enchanted Woods multimedia spectacle in its last day at Fundidora Park

Daniel Santiago

On the last day of the Enchanted Woods, hundreds of families waited in queue for over four hours in spite of the show lasting only 15 minutes.

“We’re here since 5.30 pm”, commented Jesús Álvares, who last night took his two kids, David and Melani, to enjoy the production which was available for three days at Fundidora Park as part of the Santa Lucía International Festival.

“We’re told that it lasts only 15 minutes, but it’s a show between nature and technology, and just by hearing “technology” the kids wanted to come”.

The experience turned out to be an unenchanting one, as organizers decided to close down the queue because of the high turnout.

“We cut the line, but we don’t know how many people we have at the moment”, one of the volunteers commented to EL NORTE.

Even so, hundreds of people kept joining the long queue which went on for almost a kilometer.

The Enchanted Woods consisted in a section of the green space near the Archivo Histórico de Nuevo León building being cut off form the park in order to recreate a fantasy scene with sounds and motions among the trees.

El Bosque Encantado (EL HORIZONTE)

September 25, 2016 / El Horizonte / Monterrey

The 10-minute tour will only be available today from 20.00 to 23.00 hours and access is completely free.

This weekend, hundreds of local families queued for over two hours to delve into the Enchanted Woods that arrived at the Fundidora Park facilities as part of the ninth edition of the Santa Lucía International Festival.

“It’s a multimedia installation divided into three areas: the first of which is the bioluminescent zone; followed by the wishing zone, and finally, the leprechaun zone. The whole project is composed of different installations, we have mechatronic sculptures that make up the faces of the six trees, we also have interactive LED lightning, videomapping, luminescent art installations and each zone alludes to nature itself”, informs Patricia Saucedo, exhibit coordinator. It was because of this year’s slogan for the festival (“A love wave for the planet”), that the Ajúa Lab collective thought of the innovative idea for this exhibit: “We decided to elaborate our participation where we could interact and coexist with nature”, mentions Saucedo.

The coordinator expressed that this is the second project for the collective, taking around two months for completion: “The first one was an exhibit that we did in Nave Generadores, where we worked for the first time as a whole, even though we’ve had several years of experience”.

The tour, which has a duration of 10 minutes, will be available until today from 20.00 to 23.00 hours and will be completely free.

El Bosque Encantado (EL NORTE)

A door to fantasy opens up in Fundidora

The opening of “The Enchanted Woods” draws a crowd at Fundidora Park – Karem Nerio

A long queue of locals took place during the opening of The Enchanted Woods, a tour with installations that recreates a fantasy environment at Fundidora Park.

Created by Ajúa Lab, a collective group, the multidisciplinary show for young and old drew a crowd that waited in line for up to three hours.

Scheduled to open at 19.00 all the way to 22.00 hours, the large number of attendees resulted in the event lasting until 23.00 hours.

The event is free to access as part of the Santa Lucía International Festival.

The Woods have three different stations with videomapping, interactive installations, sound design and mechatronic trees.

“The magical feeling of a child directed by the creative capacity of talent”, expressed Patricia Saucedo, coordinator of the project.

The 10-minute tour takes place in an area near the Archivo Histórico de Nuevo León, at Fundidora Park.

Palacio de Gobierno (EL NORTE)

The Governmental Palace comes to life with videomapping for the city’s anniversary and the inauguration of the Santa Lucía International Festival.

Daniela de la Mora

The Governmental Palace came to life tonight in between music and 4D videomapping simulations that recreate the origins of Monterrey to celebrate 422 years since the city’s foundation.

The music and light show kicked of the Santa Lucía International Festival, which will run from October 25th to November 11th.

For over six minutes, the audience could enjoy a flood of light and color wash over the front of the Governmental Palace, creating the illusion of an overflowing historical building.

Moreover, a phoenix bird, the festival’s mascot, also rose and flew through the Palace’s walls.

The videomapping installation was done by local designers Silvia Patricia Saucedo Flores and Luis Caballero, who invested over a month to complete the work.

Palacio de Gobierno (EL NORTE)

Palace will tell history with light and music

The Governmental Palace will be the star of an audiovisual show that will kick off the Santa Lucía International Festival

-Andrea Acosta

The front of the Governmental Palace will come to life and tell historical events from the City in the opening of the 11th edition of the 2018 Santa Lucia International Festival.

Through videomapping, the quarry building, built from 1895 to 1908, will dazzle audiences this 20th september, date in which the 422nd anniversary of the City’s foundation will be celebrated.

The audiovisual spectacle will be composed of the projection of historical tales over the walls of the antique building, as well as digital animations, sound effects and original music from local musicians.

Although the festival won’t formally begin until october, this thursday at 19.30 hours the protocolary inauguration of the artistic festivities will take place.

“The building will become a canvas where, by means of color and music, the building will be transformed”, mentions Lorenia Canavati, president of the festival..

“The show will take us through different sensations. For example, we’ll be able to see that the Ojo de Agua spring (in Santa Lucía) will grow and fill the whole building with water until it overflows through the windows. Suddenly, we will have the illusion of the building bending and breaking into pieces”.

Projections will take place every half an hour from 20.00 to 23.00 hours.

“It’s a top level show, created by local artists and producers”, indicated Canavati.

The creative effort was led by designers Silvia Patricia Saucedo Flores and Luis Caballero.

Palacio de Gobierno (EL NORTE)

Governmental Palace shines

The Santa Lucía International Festival performed a videomapping projection with which it kicked off the event activities.

-Gustavo Mendoza Lemus

The Governmental Palace vibrated, filled with water, bent and was witness to the passage of history thanks to the videomapping projection with which the Santa Lucía International Festival (FISL) kicked off.

At a Explanada de los Heroes (Heroes’ Square) packed with audience, the video projection told the story of the Santa Lucía Ojos de Agua (springs) and of Monterrey on the day the city turns 422 since its founding.

The brainchild of visual artists Pats Saucedo and Luis Caballero exhibited a mixture of historical elements and contemporary designs using as reference the front of the Governmental Palace.

The show lasted slightly over five minutes and had several showings every half an hour until 23.00 hours, with this being the only day of this activity.

Slightly before the projection, Lorenia Canavati, president of the Patronato del FISL, as well as several federal, state and local cultural community members kicked off the initial preinauguration activities of the festival.

Canavati pointed out that, while the official opening of the Santa Lucía festival won’t be until october 25th, the videomapping is part of a series of events that will lead up to the city’s festival.

“This way, we are contributing to the important mission of taking the arts to the streets, elevating our culture through art and enjoying beautiful shows”, commented the festival’s foundation president.

The protocolary act was also an opportunity to tjank Liliana Melo de Sada’s work, who was in charge of the FISL organization for 10 years and who was also present at the event.

After the act, the audience was impatiently waiting for the videomapping, with some audience members booing the name of Jaime Rodríguez Calderón whenever it was mentioned during the speeches, even though the governor was not present at the event.

Obispado (EL NORTE)

Story will be told with light and color

Videomapping will traverse history of Museo del Obispado

-Teresa Martinez

The story of the oldest building in Monterrey will be told this sunday using light and digital shapes and sounds in a videomapping spectacle.

A group of digital artists will project an animation on the front of the Museo Regional de Nuevo León (Nuevo Leon Regional Museum), located at Cerro del Obispado, to celebrate the museum’s 60 years.

Led by Patricia Saucedo, the creators got their inspiration from fragments of the building’s history, dating from the 18th century, to create the 3-minutes long piece.

The digital arts specialist and founder of videomapping.mx explained that the spectacle will present the Obispado as a city icon whose front is witness and victim of its own history.

“We start by looking at the front throughout the cosmos to get a sense of time; afterwards, it comes to life and starts moving”, told the UANL alumna Saucedo.

“Later on, the Builder Bishop (Friar Rafael José Verger) appears and we start to see how the architecture of the building becomes a fort and we follow the battles the building’s been a part of.”

Hurricane Gilbert’s pass through the city is another event that will be represented, as well as a conceptual segment with light and images based on huichol art.

One of the artists is Daphne Aimeé Martínez, who made a 3D representation of the original Virgin sculpture from the building, whose shape is almost unrecognizable.

The piece also has the participation of artists Nuahyotzin Morales Piña, Javier Orellana, and international artists Jérém Oury, from France, and Luis Miguel Torres, from the US. The original score was composed by Carlos Edelmiro López Sánchez.

Obispado (EL NORTE)

Light was made at the Obispado

The Museo del Obispado celebrates six decades with videomapping that tells its history with light and music.

-Gabriela Villegas

It’s construction during the Colonial period, the historical battles it witnessed and hurricane Gilbert’s pass through the city in 1988 were part of the narrative told last night using videomapping on the front of what is currently the Museo del Obispado.

The building celebrated its 60th anniversary as a museum with a spectacle of shapes, lights and sound developed by the company videomapping.mx, which captivated over 400 attendees in the first of four different showings that took place yesterday.

Before the spectacles kick off, Elsa Rodríguez, representative of INAH (National Anthropology and History Institute) in Nuevo León, gave a speech.

“We cannot conserve, nor give life to the works we do not know, so this is a wonderful opportunity to show you the beauty of our heritage”, expressed the representative, who was interrupted on occasion by the whistling of the public who were eager to admire the videomapping.

At 20.45 hours, the ambiance lightning was lowered and the music from composer Carlos Edelmiro López announced that the encounter with history was about to begin. The attendees didn’t waste any time before taking out their smartphones to record part of the eight minutes long projection.

The first image that was projected on the landmark building, which dates from 1787, was the face of the Friar Bishop Rafael José de Verger, promoter of the construction of the colonial palace, consecrated to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The last shapes that were projected were an outline of every wall of the baroque architecture of the Museum, which was accomplished by scanning the building using a technique called photogrammetry, as told by Patricia Saucedo, visual artist and leader of the creative team from videomapping.mx.

“We played with the visual aesthetics of the space, with the architecture in order to take out of context, and let’s say we out own memories as well, so we have a different image or visual reference”, she explained.

Other artists in the team were Daphne Aimeé Martínez, Nauhyotzin Morales Piña and Javier Orellana.

Obispado (MILENIO)

The Obispado’s history will be told with projection

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the most important historical events to occur there will be recreated.

-Gustavo Mendoza Lemus

The over 220 years of the Obispado will be told in a rarely seen way. By means of the videomapping technique, the front of the vice-royal building will be used as a screen to recapture its history using a projection.

Though a project developed by the Videomapping Mx company, who met with the Museo Regional El Obispado director, Gina Ulloa, a multimedia spectable will be offered this sunday february 14 as the kick off event for the celebration of the 60 years of the cultural space.

Patricia Saucedo, head of the company, mentions that using the videomapping technique, key scenes and stories where the building has been witness will be recreated.

“We’re trying to give a new value to this space, as it has in some way become lost in the social conscience”, refers Saucedo.

Historical research has been on going for months, as well as the digital reconstruction of the front of the building, the design and the sound.

The end result is the show that will be projected on Sunday at three different time slots starting at 20.30.

Among the images to be shown are episodes such as the four wars in which the Obispado has been a protagonists: the Battle of Monterrey, the war against the French, the Noria revolt and the Mexican Revolution.

Furthermore, key elements of the building, such as the sculpture of the Virgin, will be used to generate a virtual reconstruction of the building.

“The Virgin located in the building’s front is mutilated, so we sculpted a reinterpretation of it to show it almost at the end of the video”, tells Saucedo.

The Obispado is a vice-royal building whose construction dates to 1787. For many years it remained abandoned after the Revolution. It was until 1946 when its reconstruction began, with it reopening its doors ten years later as a history museum.

It’s the oldest museum in Nuevo León and in 2016 it celebrates six decades of service.

The project had the participation of Nauhyotzin Morales, Moisés Garza, Daphne Martínez, Luis Miguel Torres, Jerem Oury, Javier Orellana, Carlos Edelmiro, Luis Caballero and Patricia Saucedo, and will be shown this February 14 on three different time slots: 20.30, 21.00 and 21.30.

ESCUELA ADOLFO PRIETO (EL NORTE)

Brand New Trimestral Agenda

The School Adolfo Prieto adjusted activities to trimesters.

-Teresa Martinez

When adjusting their activities to trimesters, the school Adolfo Prieto will offer programs in which you can learn how to make Business with Cultural backgrounds or what is it that involves interdisciplinary studies.

-Beginning March, the district will announce activities every three months, for the public to have opportunity to acknowledge with time the offer of their courses and workshops, indicated Luis Escalante, principal of the space.

-Under this structure, the school will launch 2 programs: Creative Industry and Interdisciplinary Studies.

-Among the activities will be the workshop “Public Management” that will be presented by projects consultant Cristina King, from May 9 to 11 Price: 200 Pesos

-Specialists of the business incubator from “Tec” will give the talk “A Cultural Company, Business or Leisure? Wednesday May 31 7.:30 Free Entry

-The five projects selected to receive advice by the Business Incubator from “Tec” will share their experience Wednesday March 15 7:30. Luis Lizaola, from Graficante and Sergio Martinez music producer will be present among others.

AJÚA VIDEOMAPPING (EL NORTE)

EXPO AJÚA LAB (EL NORTE)

Blending Art and Technology at exposition.

Art and Technology are combined at “Ajua Lab” Exposition that will begin today at the Generadores Hall in Parque Fundidora.

-Alan Valdez.

Art and Technology are combined at “Ajua Lab” Exposition that will begin today, 20:00 hrs at the Generadores Hall in Parque Fundidora.

Five pieces of great layout and a compilation of previous works form the exhibit of the collective of the same name, that suggests electronic sensor-built pieces, LED lighting, and other cutting-edge technology elements.

“All this dreams and ideals we had as children, of creating fantastic-like things or things that will induce our illusions, we want to bring it alive somehow physically” said, Patricia Saucedo, member of the collective.

With “Multiversos”, piece the public will “create” music in a dark room using 12 Laser Rays (LEDS)

“Is a laser harp that has pre-sequenced rhythm patterns, so there’s no way to get It wrong, all notes are tone to an upscale and the rhythms place to a specific tempo”, explained Carlos Edelmiro, creator of the piece.

Nauhyotzin Morales, Eden Candelas, Javier Orellana, Alejandro Tristán, Noé González y Priscila López completan el colectivo.

CREACIONES DE LUZ (EL NORTE)

Lighting Creations

Teresa Martínez

Monterrey, Mexico (September 13, 2014)

The artist Patricia Saucedo works her laptop with the same ability a guitar player will do and surrounds the setoff where her work “Mandala” is being projected.

She gets closer and focus her sight like a jeweler to check and observe if it matches the projection of a woman silhouette with the form of a girl that stands above the surface of fiberglass.

The inquiry is that both feminine forms shall coincide, the digital one as well as the sculpture. That’s what video-mapping is about, a technique that plays with the tridimensional forms of the surface where its projected.

“I’m very observant. Very obsessive. I get into it a lot to check if it´s well clear up and focus”, says the artist while she moves from one side to other pushing her laptop keypad fast.

Known as Pats Saucedo, she is considered nationally one of the pioneers of video-mapping, although having decades of history it´s just begging its boom into art and commercial.

What is video-mapping?

In a video that is shown with her commercial projects in her official page videomapping.mx Patricia Saucedo explains what this tech tool is about.

It involves projecting videos on a backdrop, object or any tridimensional structure and the projection will be adapted to the nature of the construction. Generally, a team of people will work on this type of set up.

The Elements distinguished this are animated objects in video-mapping that when being projected you can view a style of transformation, giving a tridimensional effect.

“The point is to stir up what you are viewing”, defines the just graduated publicist from “Science and communication Faculty, (Facultad de Ciencias de la comunicacion, UANL.

“To project into a surface and to get it out of its real backdrop to transform it totally, giving it an appearance thanks to the animation effects.”

The process consists on doing a scan of the figure or surface where it will be projected, through a photograph or defining the forms through the projection.

“Once you have this map you can start to play (in the computer) with the traces, the area, the perimeter, and you can start to create this content in animation”, explains the just graduated from the program from High Performance in Contemporary Arts (PARAC).

When did Video-mapping started?

The first projection of video mapping was in Disney’s Haunted Mansion Opening in 1969, the projection-mapping.org tell us and it was done for the show of the Grim Grinning Ghosts

In 1980, the artist of new media Michael Naimark Presented his installation “Displacements”, a rotative Projection that when projected in a room recreated the objects in movements and people moving in that space.

Both are Staring points for the use of video-mapping in arts and commercial

Another example in 1995 American filmmaker Bill Viola created “The Veiling”, a projection of night countries in numerous translucent fabrics.

Then, video-mapping is a video installation evolved, highlight Enrique Hernandez Barrera, Collaborator and Researcher of the Multimedia Center of Cenart at DF.

Today in Mexico are very few pioneers in the artistic sense, but we can find more people in entertainment, explains the just graduated from digital arts of the Guanajuato University

It’s been about five years that we can buy from an accessible price here in Mexico a Projector and equipment to manipulate into the surfaces.

Without Definition

All though they’re few, one of the important pioneers of video-mapping is Mexican Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, who has combined this art with the interaction of the public.

Like in Sandbox, 2010, work in which the artist filmed people interacting in a small sandbox, the live image was projected in Santa Monica beach, USA.

At the same time the image of people walking by was projected in the SandBox.

“With Video-mapping more than a video you are changing the reality of the object of projection” says the multimedia artist Enrique Hernandez Barrera. “It’s a tool that’s redefying because there’s so much to explore still”.

Its connected to many technology, that the artist has to be focus in the expression of the video and think that video-mapping is architectonic, but it has a little bit of sculptural, of video installation and performance.

For Pats Saucedo video mapping it’s not a trend, it will position itself in art as well as sculpture and painting.

“I want more than the reality that I’m living and video mapping gives this in a way, makes you fall for it, hooks you and its majestic and also shocking, all this creates immersive atmospheres

Global Tendency

Some of the most well-known pioneers of video-mapping are:

-Miguel Chevalier: Mexican settled in France, is consider one of the pioneers of digital art. He projected las November “The origin of life” on Arts Palace in D.F.

-Romain Tardy: French designer that cofounded European firm ANTIVJ, known by its impressive installations.

-Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Mexican Multimedia Artist; one of the explorations branches he does is interactive video-mapping

THE BURNING MAN JOURNAL

Celebrating Life and Remembering Our Dead

Pyramid of the Dead is going to come alive in Black Rock City. There will be projection mapping lighting up the night. The crew has an art car, Axolotl which is a Mexican salamander. “He is called the Quetzalcoatl, which is like an indigenous Mexican god — the feathered serpent.” The salamander is an endangered species. “A little bit of what we are doing has do to with ecology as well, and being able to recognize what we are doing to the planet as far as death goes,” Tomás says.

There will also be virtual reality by Roberto Cerda Zuñiga. Participants can enter the pyramid and be taken on a voyage of the Mesoamerican underworld. Zuñiga also highlights the crisis of the coral reef on the border of Mexico, which is dying at a rapid rate.

On Thursday, August 31 at 9 pm, there will be a procession from the Temple to the pyramid, honoring the history of the Temple as a place of spiritual healing. “We will have a Day of the Dead procession where people are going to dress up as Catrinas.” Tomás also shares there will be “DEADtalks”, the ceremony, and a big party with the Mayan Warrior Mutant Vehicle.

Pyramid of the Dead is a community space where some will share stories of their loved ones and others will examine how death affects us. You can take what you need from the work. It could be a memento mori moment or a vanitas still-life, but it is powered by people whose souls are all open to sharing.

Tomás’s spirit is fully realized in the pyramid, and surrounding and embracing him is Design & Communications Director, Lynn Rawden, La Calaca co-founder Klaudia Oliver, Production Director Ben Brill, Build Lead Ali Agus, Digital Production Director Luis Caballero and Video Mapping Artist, Pats Saucedo. And you.

Creando historias a partir de LA LUZ (Bizz No 17, p. 245-25, MILENIO)

Creating stories from light

At first, she wanted to be a filmmaker, but her curiosity led her to discover an unexplored world in Monterrey: videomapping. This technique brings buildings to life by recreating 3D stories that are much more than colored lights.

-Gustavo Mendoza

Photo caption: Patricia Saucedo, Visual artist and CEO of videomapping.mx.

It all started with a box. After installing some software and setting up her computer, Patricia Saucedo Flores was able to project a bidimensional image in a piece of cardboard, illuminated from the video light.

It’s been almost six years since that experience and today she doesn’t create pictures on a box but instead on the front of the oldest museum of Monterrey or on the stage behind a big concert.

Pats Saucedo, as she’s known in the scene, is the CEO of Videomapping Mx, a company that has turned on its feet the way light brings all kinds of surfaces to life.

Today, she describes this activity with such excitement, in spite of the physical demands that come with doing the 3D animation of an 86 m stage, as was the case in the most recent edition of the Pa’l Norte music festival.

“I looked up videomapping as term on the internet and never got a satisfying answer. One day, I found a blog entry that said that the people with the know-how of the technique had had such a hard time learning that they didn’t share their knowledge and Ifelt disappointed with that answer. That’s why I chose to move on from theory to practice and that’s how I started”, says Saucedo Flores.

The beginnings with Greenaway

Drawing was one of the passions of Paty Saucedo growing up and, years later, it seemed that film would be her career choice.

Nevertheless, she was not entirely convinced by art school, and went on to study Advertising at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. And yet, the curiosity for film and visual art never disappeared.

In 2009, Guanajuato received the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway as a special guest who, among other activities, would be giving a conference titled “The cinema is dead. Long live the cinema”. Saucedo – fan of the filmmaker – attended the talk, which left her flabbergasted.

“Graphically, it was as if someone had taken my brain and had completely folded it”, describes Pats.

After discovering the videomapping technique and practicing with it – thanks to the cardboard box -, she started to experiment with this technology. Her first public projection was in the Art Fest Festival in San Pedro in 2010.

After this, theater plays, dance festivals and museum and gallery exhibits followed in Monterrey, Tijuana, Mexico City and San Diego.

“At the beginning it was complicated, because people that were interested didn’t understand the process, and when I explained what it was all about they answered that it was easier to install color LEDS. I wanted to explode! I had to change the way I presented this project”, comments Saucedo.

Luminaire of the future

Projecting light on a building is not mapping, warns Pats. As the name implies, it becomes mapping when the projection is done by means of a map, where all the elements of the surface can be transformed.

With Videomapping.mx she not only uses video, but does research, produces a story and takes advantage of all the architectural details of the building, as happened in her recent project on the front of the regional “El Obispado” museum.

Patricia Saucedo describes herself as a creator, a woman looking to understand the technological novelties, always in a self-taught way, as she did when she discovered videomapping.

Currently she’s part of the Ajúa Lab project, a space that gathers a group of specialists that delve into different areas of visual arts.

Her contribution to the city is simple: to offer quality projects that innovate by means of of technology.

“We could fill up with projects, but our sight is focused on having quality events that carry a weight and somehow transmit to the people that we work with that whenever they require this service, we are completely involved”, she remarks.

Pats Saucedo’s Favorites

Artists:

Peter Greenaway, british filmmaker

George Gurdjieff, armenian writer

Alejandro Jodorowsky, chilean writer

Music: Experimental

Museum: All those in Monterrey

Activity: Videomapping, which involves transforming a space, removing it from its ordinary context by means of video-projection and optical illusion.

Catálogo MOD 2014 – Festival Internacional de Arte Digital

PatS Saucedo

Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León on 1984. Publicist by trade, she started working in video, exploring its different areas, which led her to the world of videojockeying while developing research exercises that center her attention towards visual perception and the concept of illusion.

She has carried out VJ Set, Live Cinema, Light Performance and 3D Mapping projects.

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Cosmopolis

Sculpture and 3D Mapping

The heart of a vibrant city and the automated motion of its inhabitants fuse to breathe life to a grand biological machine, a fantasy world within a cold social reality.

FESTIVAL MEDIARTE 9.0 (EL NORTE)

Mediarte Festival

Festival Mediarte began last nite presenting two full installations inside Centro de las Artes.

The Mediarte Festival 9.0 started last night presenting two full sets inside Centro de las Artes , at the Fundidora Park. On of them brings forth the concern of Migrants suffering in their path to USA and the other one the breakup of paradigms of the traditional expression.

Sylvie Marchand, French Artist and Patricia Saucedo, born in Monterrey city were in charge of opening with their work the traditional week that year by year is made in Conarte Monterrey And Alianza Francesa, that seeks to show technology as a tool of contemporary art form.

Headed by Marchand, the collective Gigacircus exhibits at the mezzanine, just before the entrance of the theater, an interesting path of screens of white fabric in which is projected videos, testimonies and photography, all wander by the French artist during an 8 months work in the frontier.

From Nuevo Laredo up to Tijuana, from Mexico City to the desert of Arizona, the collective seeks the contact with Mexican migrants, Centre and South Americans. In them she had found the suffering and at the same time the hope, what is left reflected in her work.

“I didn’t want to reproduce a wall, as a cutting line, that divides two words, I believe that the idea of a wall generates a lot of violence and as an artist I wanted to show the flows”, Mentioned Marchand in a learned Spanish from five years ago when she was in Mexico to make this artistic research.

“They’re Continuous Flows, the two words are very close, one comes back always”.

For her part, Saucedo stablished her presentation named “90 Grados Luz” (90 Degree Light) in one of the corners of Centro de las Artes, and now open to public to admired the projection of the figures in one tridimensional pyramidal structure formed by cubes and prisms.

“Video mapping is a technique little known in Mexico, is being used a lot in other countries. It allows us to see things in a different perspective allowing us to see things in different angles”, said the Monterrey born and rise artist.

Pats Saucedo Vj Spain Sculpture and 3d mapping

Pats Saucedo

Begins in video and exploring different areas till she arrives to the world of video jockey, developing exercises of researching that focus her attention in visual perception and dream-like emotions.

Having Accomplish projects of Live Cinema, 3D Mapping and Light performance.

The project of “Cosmopolis” was born from the idea of making a fantasy miniature word. That in some way will reflect the mechanism of a cold machinery city that has lost its natural essence. Its name and concept were inspired by the movie “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang and the book “Psychology of the possible evolution of men” by Ouspensky.

How was the process of Working?

I started with very raw sketches, till passing the design to vectors and filling it with implements, essentials to describe a cyclic movement, then model it into 3D at the same time that the sculpture was developing; testing was done for adjustments, I filmed in a green screen several loops of their citizens with pantomimes artists, to end it with animation and sound design that together recreated the imagined atmosphere.

“Cosmopolis”

Sculpture and 3d mapping by Pats Saucedo

The heart of a vibrant city and the automated movement of its inhabitants, combine to give life to a biological machine, a fantastic underwater world on a cold social reality.