ARNAU TÀSIES

Visual research

New media artist whose works sit at the point where the computational and the physical converge, where processes leave traces, and those traces become images.  What gets lost, corrupted, or transformed becomes the starting point,  using that friction to reveal what normally passes unseen.


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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.

 

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Panopticón Simbiótico

The Symbiotic Panopticon is a research-driven project that critically examines AI technology through an intersectional lens, challenging the normative biases ingrained in generative AI systems. This project, originating as a master’s thesis, reimagines AI tools as instruments of counter-surveillance, repurposing these systems to scrutinize and subvert corporate and governmental oversight.

Three prototype artifacts serve as counter-surveillance tools, each designed to reinterpret AI's potential from a perspective of resistance rather than compliance. These artifacts propose an alternative narrative for generative technology, inviting the viewer to consider AI as a means to monitor power instead of people. 

As part of the research, a virtual space created in Unreal Engine acts as a digital archive, a virtual landscape housing the project’s research, prototypes, and visual documentation. This archive transforms the viewer's experience of surveillance itself, creating an immersive, interactive environment where viewers can explore and question the evolving relationship between visibility, control, and digital agency.








Paradoxical Feedback: A Study in Error and Image Decay

"Paradoxical Feedback" is a media installation that explores the delicate materiality of digital images, blending analog and digital formats to evoke the concepts in Parrondo's Paradox—a counterintuitive phenomenon in which two losing strategies can produce a winning outcome. This project employs a DSLR camera and a CRT monitor to create a recursive loop of image sequences, allowing error to accumulate as digital information degrades with each pass between mediums. This cyclical exchange intentionally introduces "losses," with distortions and glitches appearing as the image shifts between digital and analog states, yet paradoxically, these accumulated flaws reveal emerging patterns and intensify visual interest.

The piece captures the oscillation between order and degradation, suggesting that intentional decay, rather than destruction, yields new textures and insights that would otherwise be absent. Through this loop, Paradoxical Feedback demonstrates how iterative error can act as a productive force, inviting viewers to contemplate the hidden potential in failure, loss, and digital entropy.








Light Passage

"Light Passage" is an online installation that reveals the quiet monotony and subtle beauty of the human experience through a live feed of surveillance cameras worldwide. This project juxtaposes light and shadow as they sweep across various landscapes, exposing the unremarkable moments that define daily life. By tapping into the rhythms of real-time surveillance, it strips the illusion of significance, showing how we move like tiny, erratic points across a vast landscape—indifferent to our surroundings and unaware of the constant surveillance we live under.

As day turns to night in different parts of the world, the site captures the subtle shifts in light, time, and human activity. Here, travel is redefined as a visual journey through the mundane, where the boundary between observer and observed dissolves. The project suggests that our perception of self-importance often masks a broader reality—a world where our individual significance is fleeting, almost imperceptible in the greater ebb and flow of time.

Website currently offline. 
Data self-portrait

A bifurcated self-portrait unfolds across two distinct mediums: text and sound.

The text originates from data parsed through facial behavior analysis—landmark points, head tilts, micro-expressions, and the drift of eye gaze—abstracted into a 184-page publication. This digital mirror reveals a face built of raw metrics, each data point translating into a text coodinates on the page.

In parallel, a singular frame from this dataset is reimagined through ControlNet as a skeletal, openpose blueprint, and transmuted into an audio composition.

Together, the text and audio trace a fragmented self, split and recoded across form and medium.



 




1984 or Echoing Eyes: A Speculative Surveillance Apparatus

This project explores the dynamics of surveillance and authority by employing custom electronics and fabricated hardware. Comprising a three-axis robotic arm, the device is programmed in C++ and Java to detect individuals within its field of view (via blob detection) and capture their images. Each image is then automatically uploaded to a dedicated social media account, bringing questions of privacy, autonomy, and data ownership into a public space.

"Echoing Eyes" challenges the viewer by recreating surveillance tactics, illustrating the blurred line between observation and control, and questioning our relationship with both corporate and governmental powers in a world saturated with digital monitoring. The project serves as both a technical and philosophical commentary on the state of privacy in the digital era.

Exhibited at Maker Fair Rome 2016 and In(3d)ustry Barcelona as artistic installation.
This project is currently disassembled and the FB account is not active anymore.







Fotocopia

An investigation into the fading thresholds of light and ink as visual mediums—where each duplicate of a duplicate fades further into decay. Through layers of corrosion, wear, and loss, the original image deteriorates, leaving only fragmented noise in its place. What remains is an abstract echo, where the essence of the original message dissolves, eroded by time and process until only traces linger.

Excerpt from ¨The Medium is the Massage¨ Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore.




Apparatus

In an age where AI enables instant image creation with a mere phrase—or alternately, demands the technical rigor of CGI and coding—this project shifts the act of image-making into a different realm altogether. Rather than relying on software or traditional visual tools, it explores the generative potential found within the chaotic interplay of cathode ray feedback. Through two Karl Klomp ‘dirty mixers,’ signals are layered, warped, and distorted, turning a CRT monitor into both medium and collaborator. This analog, glitch-driven feedback loop bypasses standard inputs and instead transforms raw electronic noise into a visual artifact—revealing an image made entirely from the pulse of live signal.