ARNAU TÀSIES
Visual artist & researcher
My work inhabits the boundary between human and machine, where digital language converges with the printed medium. Through rigorous experimentation with software, hardware, and algorithms, I explore the intimate potential of technology, creating daily pieces that evolve from technical trial into visual narrative. Embracing glitch, post-internet, and net art aesthetics, my process distills complex code into tangible forms, weaving dreamlike, synthetic spaces that reflect both human presence and computational trace. Each piece is an invitation to encounter and reflect on our ever-deepening relationship with digital realities.
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Manteinance Of The Unreal
Maintenance of the Unreal is a hybrid project composed of CGI-based digital renders and conceptual photographs of ready-made objects. It investigates the years to come, where the boundary between the synthetic and the organic, the virtual and the real, has become irreversibly blurred. No longer limited to digital labor, this work extends the notion of “maintenance” to every facet of human experience: memory, intimacy, ecology, identity, domestic life, and the very idea of the "natural."
The project proposes that digital life, like physical life, demands ongoing care—emotional, ecological, and existential. Each CGI render presents a quiet scene in a surreal, simulated world: modular oceans, artificial horizons, floating architectural fragments—inhabited by still or absent figures. These environments are sterile yet serene, designed but directionless, evoking a space that needs constant calibration, emotionally and environmentally.
Altogether, the photographic series focuses on ready-made household or personal objects subtly modified to expose their deep entanglement with technology. These intimate and minimalist compositions emphasize the eerie normalcy of our dependency on digital systems and smart infrastructures, embedded even in the most mundane aspects of life.
- What happens when “nature” is only preserved as data, and gardens are maintained as server farms?
- How do we care for ourselves when interfaces mediate every gesture of intimacy?
- Can technology be both invisible and overwhelming, fragile and absolute?
- Is it possible to feel presence in a world that endlessly renders itself anew?
The project merges the sterile beauty of speculative architecture with the poetic estrangement of conceptual photography. The renders are washed in muted gradients (pastels, synthetic sunlight, reflective water) and uncanny pixels compositions (emulating computer vision) while the photographs of objects stress contrast, clean compositions, and elusive interventions. They speak to a world held together by invisible systems, soft glitches, and the rituals we invent to stay human inside the unreal.