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Brenda Biagioni
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“Thanks to the video artists, we see what we can't see.”
-Kedy, UGC Cinema, Hong Kong
My art is a healing tool, a spiritual synthesis, a transformative process, and a way of being. For the past seven years I have been facilitating healing art and meditation workshops at the Women’s Center in Cambridge, MA. As a teacher I have seen how influential meditation and visual mediums can be. Inspired through my students experience, I created various projects to teach others the importance of meditation. Through video, animation and interactive installations, this has proven to be successful. In my five-year project, EKTA, I have collaborated with computer programming engineers from MIT to enable my ideas to be fully executed. The result was a multimedia environment that generated biofeedback meditation. As in a mirror, this enabled the user to immediately see feedback of their state of being by having their shifting brainwaves change the light and sound in the room. This installation has opened the eyes to many who have experienced its environment.
There is a pulse that exists and vibrates within each and every one of us. There are a vast array of influences that trigger our minds and hearts in the everyday flow. The sensory environment around us feeds into our beings, shifting our physiological state as well as psychological state. We live in a time where scientific research is constantly investigating these issues. In my multimedia pursuit I explore ways to connect this realization. My goal is to show the similarities of an energy that drives rhythm, and an emotion that drives movement. With the use of video and audio, this is expressed in a stream of consciousness. It is my intent to demonstrate that meditation is a state of awareness that can radically transform us and can be experienced anywhere. I strongly feel it is important to integrate spirituality in every thing we do. In a time where we are bombarded by media images of disaster, war and world suffering, it is important to seek inner calm and balance.
Shifting our state of awareness can be a powerful tool. In many Asian cultures this observation is still practiced in daily life. It is in the study of different cultures through video art I seek to explore as a tool for teaching. I seek to understand what influences one another and how our actions are connected. By weaving together the everyday and the sacred I look to generate examples from my travel footage. This is executed through experimental documentary montage. My emphasis is on showing the juxtaposition of meditative acts in temple life to transitions of everyday city life. I have captured footage of a monastic and city life in India, Thailand, and Cambodia. While also including rhythmic scenes from the streets of American life I represent a comparable thread that may unite the pulses of daily activities to a sacred intentional force. These images explore an interconnectedness of consciousness from around the globe.
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