Looking Outwards 10 – Female Artists

Artist: Karolina Sobecka

Project: Wildlife

Karolina Sobecka’s ‘wildlife’ caught my interest. The project places ‘wildlife’ in the city center thereby uniting two antithetical concepts – cities and wildlife. A tiger projected onto building facades by the sidelights of a moving car, runs alongside the car, picking up speed when the car accelerates, slowing down, stopping and even looking towards the viewer when the car stops. The tiger’s speed is modelled on the wheel rotation of the car which is picked by a sensor. The tiger can be seen panting when the car stops. The project is surreal but brings excitement to the boring monotony of a city night. It seems to me that the tiger is a 3d animation whose movement is then tagged to the sensor on the car wheels through computational algorithms.

Karolina Sobecka is an independent artist.  According to her linkedin webpage, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, went on for a Master of Fine Art at California Institute of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy, DXARTS Digital and Experimental Art at the University of Washington. She is an adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design. She is the director of Flightphase, a creative agency in science communication and consultancy that uses art to craft messages on climate, emerging technology and synthetic biology.