Material de investigación
Material de investigación
Material de investigación
The collective PANÓSMICO (Mariana Mañón and Manolo Larrosa) in collaboration with architects Alice Pontiggia and Roberto Michelsen, poet Iñigo Malvido, filmmaker Eduardo Makoszay and biologist Ivan Ransom are the winners of LIGA’s second open call: Máquinas Imaginantes (Imaginary Machines) with their proposal: “Circuito de Auscultación Hidrográfica” (Hydrographic Auscultation Circuit).
Hydrographic Auscultation Circuit is a data collection observatory, information processor and language interface. A binding element between diverse media and territories that imagines the possibilities of our landscape and its ecological imbalance in relationship to aquatic, bacteriological and human architecture.
The project consists of three sensor stations controlled by Arduino boards, each one distributed between three of the dams of the Becerra River; one of the subterranean rivers that flows through Mexico City. These stations will report the fluctuating state of its water quality index: pH, amount of oxygen, rate of motion, temperature, and density of dissolved particles in the water. The information collected by the sensors will circulate in real time at LIGA’s exhibition space, made visible through containers of water that modify their state according to the values found in the Becerra River. One of the circuits will include filmed documentary material from each dam.
Research: Hydrographic Auscultation Circuit is a multidisciplinary research project that analyzes the state and infrastructure of the Becerra River—one of the few currents of Mexico City that hasn’t been completely piped. The members of the project will study the relationship between the body and urban spaces as a means to question the complexity of our relationship to the landscape and its residual spaces.
