Daniela de Paulis

audiovisual - conceptual - crossover - digital technology - documentary

I am a media artist working with experimental practices in live performance, sound and video. My work reflects upon notions of reality as presented by the natural sciences, especially radio astronomy, neuroscience and space research. The aim of my work is to create cinematic and highly subjective experiences in the minds of the participants, that generate memories which continue to be re-interpreted over time. My projects aim at resonating with different conceptual and existential meanings according to the experiential heritage of each participant and their perception of reality, reaching for a culturally and socially diverse audience.

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    • Mary Incognito

    Performance

    • 01-09-2017 t/m 31-10-2022
    • In collaboration with: Donders Center for Neuroimaging, University of Cambridge, Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Max Planck Institute
    • Location: , Cambridge
    • Mare Incognito is an interdisciplinary project exploring the gradual dissolution of consciousness and of the thinking process while falling asleep. We are especially interested in exploring the moment during the sleep cycle while awareness seems to dissolve and while the self gradually detaches from the continuous life narrative.
    • http://somnospace.diejungeakademie.de/

    COGITO in Space

    Performance

    • 01-10-2013 t/m 05-11-2018
    • In collaboration with: Donders Centre, ASTRON
    • Location: , Dwingeloo
    • COGITO in Space allows people of all ages to send their brain activity into space as radio waves, while viewing a video in virtual reality showing experimental footage of the cosmos and the Earth seen from space. The project is designed and staged at the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands.
    • https://cogitoinspace.org/

    OPTICS

    Performance

    • 10-10-2009
    • In collaboration with: International radio operators
    • OPTIKS is a live performance during which digital (color or B/W) images submitted by the public are sent to the moon in form of radio signals, using several antennas around the globe. The performance is streamed in real time.
    • www.optics.info

    Acknowledgments

      Publication

    • The Metamorphosis of a Periplaneta Americana

    • 2021
    • academic journal
    • Leonardo MIT Journal - Daniela de Paulis, issue edited by Leonardo MIT
      Publication

    • COGITO in Space

    • 2021
    • Academic Publication
    • Springer - Daniela de Paulis, book edited by Ian Crawford
      Publication

    • The Jellyfish and the Moon

    • 2021
    • artistbook
    • Subjectile - Text and Story: Fabienne Gambrelle Translation: Fabienne Gambrelle & Margaret Winn Illustrations: Anaïs Tondeur & Gabriel Grandry
      Publication

    • Pandemic exchange

    • 2021
    • Academic Publication
    • Institute of Network Culture - Daniela de Paulis, book edited by Josephine Bosma
      Publication

    • The Dream of Scipio

    • 2020
    • Academic Publication
    • EVA London - Daniela de Paulis, book edited by EVA London
      Publication

    • OPTIKS and Visual Moonbounce

    • 2016
    • academic journal
    • Leonardo MIT Journal - Daniela de Paulis, issue edited by Leonard MIT