Postnatural History Footage / FTG-C1ESA21, 2021

Postnatural History Footage is an ongoing series of video works generated using 3D animation and modeling software that simulates short scientific and naturalistic videos and films from the 1900s.

By adopting a 4:3 aspect ratio—once standard for documentary and educational productions, as well as avant-garde cinema and amateur films—this series employs targeted pre- and post-production treatments to the audiovisual material, aiming to convey a sense of circular, recombinant, and paradoxical temporality.

The synthetic redesign of organisms and ecosystems, a central focus of much of my artistic research (Quasi-Objects, Polymorphic Systems Studies, Environmental Monitoring System, Soft Bodies, On Growth and Form, etc.), addresses the need to explore the morphologies and dynamics of nature as a product of its interconnection with culture and technology.

In Postnatural History Footage, I aim to reaffirm the close synergy between the biosphere and the technosphere, where the audiovisual traces document virtual fragments of a ‘past to come.’ By historicizing the ‘present-future,’ the project serves as an algorithmic device that disarticulates the space-time perspective to reorient our connection with otherness.

The edition is limited to 5 + 2 AP. Each video is provided in two formats: SXGA+ (1400×1050 px) and HDTV (SXGA+ mounted on a 1920×1080 px canvas).

Year : 2021
Tech Specs : SXGA+/(Full-HD), 2:21 Mins, Color, Stereo, Ed. of 5 + 2 AP
Copy & Credits : Lorenzo Oggiano