Tania Candiani's project Cinco variaciones de circunstancias fónicas y una pausa at Laboratorio Arte Alameda received the Award of Distinction in the "Hybrid Art" category at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
The six works included in the exhibition were made on commission for Laboratorio Arte Alameda. One of them, Órgano, belongs to the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes' collection. The project comprises a group of player pianos, an organ that reproduces texts, modules for the projection and auditing of stories told exclusively via sounds, an embroidery machine that writes coded secrets, a video-installation where a scribe retells what he has heard from writers, and a belfry that functions as a biological clock.
With these works, Candiani focuses her proposal on an investigation of machines and instruments for the reproduction of speech, narrative, plot, the sound of writing, and systems of reading, bringing forth complex systems for the hearing, confession, and protection of language.
On his part, Mexico's Gilberto Esparza received an honorary mention in the same category for Plantas nómadas.
The Ars Electronica Festival was established in Liz, Austria, in 1997, and it features and exhibition center, an experimentation laboratory, and the Festival proper, which every year brings together scientists, artists, programmers, and technicians to reflect on the transformations operated by technology on society and the arts.