Michael Romeo
Artist
Brooklyn, NY
Focus
Performance
Cybernetics
Synthesis
About
M.Romeo's work ranges from live real-time audio, visual, physical performances that combine computer graphics and audio into a cohesive medium, utilizing everything from algorithmic assisted synthesizers to computer vision and custom built electronics, exhibiting and performing under the moniker ‘Night Shining’. The work integrates a multitude of technologies, electronics building, and computer programming.
The theme's visual forms and auditory textural elements are inspired by the convergence of the organic and synthetic materials and the manipulation of these elements by humans within the Anthropocene. Effects on Earth's ecology due to anthropomorphic unabated climate change could itself be seen as a sort of global-scale experimentation. Additionally, the potential for future geo-engineering and / or direct manipulation of genetics with technologies like CRISPR.
The theme described is used as a catalyst for the work, expressed as a creative output of an artistic form of cybernetics; the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. The work conveys an artistic representation of lines between mechanical and natural systems becoming increasingly blurry, and viewing the future with unease.
Works