Nahuel Basterretche

✨ Reverse Alchemy: What an incredible experience! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday for the show. Your presence made it all the more special, and we hope you enjoyed exploring these artistic applications of XR technology as much as we enjoyed sharing them with you. 🎤 A special shout-out to @davemeckin for hosting our panel discussion and to my brilliant fellow panelists @studio_oriel @nathandavidsmith @petrazhivkova for such an inspiring conversation about the role of Art and Design in XR. 👏 Huge thanks to @carolina_ramirezfigueroa for leading this ambitious project and inviting me to be a part of it. Last week marked the culmination of intense work, creative experimentation, and an extraordinary team effort. Reverse Alchemy was a lovely collaborative exploration of how art and design can shape sustainable, magical, and uncanny futures. I’m honored to have contributed to this journey!

Thrilled to announce that I’ll be part of this exciting exhibition next week, exploring some fascinating applications of Virtual Reality! As part of the event, I’ll join a panel with @petrazhivkova & @nathandavidsmith to discuss the relationship between artists and technology designers for this medium. Hope to see you there!

October was an amazing month! I was lucky enough to present my VR project ‘Amber Dell’ at @londonbreezefilmfestival and the @dutchdesignweek 🙌🙌🙌🙌 Instances like these are really important to the development of the work, since I get to carry out user research and identify the strengths and failures of the work. They’re also really cool to meet interesting people working in the field! I wrote a case study with some of the findings of these two events, you can check it out in my website. I will keep working in ‘Amber Dell’ throughout November, and will be showing it around Battersea on early December! Stay tuned for more info.

SPATIAL STORYTELLING @ London Breeze Film Festival RCA School of Communication x Off Site Project Wed 23 & Thur 24 Oct, 12-6pm Showcasing sixteen projects from graduates of MA Animation, MA Digital Direction and MA Information Experience Design, SPATIAL STORYTELLING features a mix of virtual and augmented reality, video games, custom software and performance pieces that expand the potential of narrative space. You can experience the projects for two days at Riverside Studios as part of the London Breeze Film Festival. Full list of the projects featured: • ‘Stories From My Grandmother’s House’ by Madeleine Kelleyan (@madeleine_kelleyan_art ) • ‘Roots to the Universe’ by Janmejay Singh (@jayforcinema ) with Dhira Chakraborty (@dhirachakraborty ) • ‘Whale Fall’ by Riya Mahajan (@___riyamahajan ), Armelle Mihailescu (armelle_mhl), Selin Öztürk (selin_ozturk) and Janmejay Singh • ‘Micro Dérive’ by Jane Lee (@jane.lee.jane ) and Seonbin Yun (@seon.bin.yun ) • ‘Amber Dell’ by Nahuel Basterretche (@nahbaste ) • ‘Co:beliefs’ by Junghyun Kim (@i_am_zoey_kim ) and Sami Malla (@sam.i.did ) • ‘A Woman’s War (Жіноча Війна)’ by Natália Štojková (@natalia_stojkova ) and Kornélia Nemcová (@kornelia_nemcova ) • ‘El Callao: Wounds and Repair’ by Patricia Wanying Lolu (@patriciawlolu ) with Baldo Verdú (@baldoverdu ) • ‘Light’ by Muhil V (@me_muhil ) with Udhayanan C • ‘The Great Report Era’ by Xiaochen Hou (@cocooxn ), Xiang Li, Junyi Duan and Qiance Zhou • ‘1/0 A/B’ by Bisu (@dusty.hermit ) • ‘Beyond Control’ by Yunsheng Zhu (@zhuzhu_yunsheng ) • ‘Moody Monsters’ by Riya Mahajan and Ruby Bell (@___rubybell ) • ‘Entanglement.pd’ by Meara Withe (@mearawithe ) with Johanna Burnheart, Lucas Lawton and Jessie Leach • ‘The Secret Garden’ by Aarti Bhalekar (@aartz_lens ) and Anushka Khemka (@anushkakhemka ) • and ‘Formations’ by Thomas Bugg (@thomasbugg__ ), Anushka Khemka, Jane Lee and Meara Withe. Thanks to everyone at London Breeze Film Festival and Riverside Studios for making this happen. And a special thanks to Dr Atif Ghani of the RCA SoC for putting this together and for inviting us to curate the programme with him. @londonbreezefilmfestival @rcasoc @riversidestudioslondon #LBFF24

✨ DDW24 REAL UNREAL ✨ I’m happy to share that we will be part of @dutchdesignweek Dutch Design Week 2024 as the Reverse Alchemy Team! 🎉 Join us for an inspiring exhibition featuring our innovative XR projects! 🗓 Date: October 19th - October 27th 🕒 Hours: 11:00 - 18:00 (Sunday until 20:00) 📍 Location: Hallenweg area, De Fabriek, Baarsstraat 38, Eindhoven, Map No. D4 @defabriekedhv ✨ Artists Jaein Lee @jane.lee.jane Thomas Bugg @thomasbugg__ Dongwon Park @paku_tougen Emerald Chen @kiiwii79 Boluwatife Kolawole @bolu_21k Jiaqi Song @jasong_jas Yuanyuan Wang @joanana.wang Lidi Fu @lidi_fu Nahuel Basterretche @nahbaste Seonbin Yun @seon.bin.yun ✨ Credit Reverse Alchemy for DDW Team Led by Seonbin Yun and Jaein Lee Project Manager: Seonbin Yun Graphic and Identity Design: Jaein Lee Project Lead Tutor: Dr. Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa ✨ Learn more: https://ddw.nl/en/programme/12424/reverse-alchemy See you there! #dutchdesignweek #ddw2024 #ddw24 #realunreal

Wonderful days setting up our work at @vamuseum We will be showing at Digital Design Weekend today and tomorrow as part of London Design Week

Culture Mining (2024) by Nahuel Basterretche @nahbaste as a part of MA Information Experience Design @rcaied The piece consists of installation consisting of an algae colony in a fishtank and an orange glowing acylic box standing atop a black metal server rack. ‘Culture Mining: an abusive relationship between a computer system and a cyanobacteria colony’ consists of a cyanobacteria culture and a computer system, which monitors and manipulates the culture’s conditions of growth. The computer gathers data from multiple sensors, and modifies the temperature, motility and light conditions of the cyanobacteria colony. This system is programmed to maximize the gathering of movement data. This results in a cycle of care and stress upon the cyanobacteria, forcing it to be in constant motion. The piece makes use of Arduinos for driving the lights and sensors and a raspberry pi to execute the main logic. The raspberry pi is running an OpenFrameworks project which is handling the data interpretation using OpenCV. I received extensive help from the physical computing team at White City, specially Pietro Bardini and Mike Faulkner. This piece was shown at the festival of communication at White City

🌍✨ V&A and RCA presents: A World of Many Worlds ✨🌍 Join us for hybrid digital-analogue artworks from the MA * Information Experience Design* graduates, exploring the multiplicity of worlds that make up the one we see every day 👁️ 🗓 Friday, 20 September 2024 - Sunday, 22 September 2024 Friday - 18.30 – 22.00 // Saturday - 10.30 – 17.00 // Sunday 10.30 – 17.00 📍 V&A South Kensington @vamuseum Through this showcase, we arise diverse perspectives through the senses, human and nonhuman relationships, unconscious impulses, and the emergence of many intelligences. Special drop-in activity part of Digital Design Weekend, a free digital art and design festival taking place on 20-22 September. 1️⃣ The Latent Chair by @jjang.jiwon This project explores how AI perceives chairs and how humans might follow AI’s way of thinking. By looking at chairs from different angles, taking them apart, and then putting them back together into new structures, it shows a departure from AI, highlighting human creativity. 2️⃣ The Living Room by @nahbaste @jane.lee.jane @vaishakhi2281923 This interactive installation challenges participants to work together in maintaining a delicate ecosystem. The environment reacts to human presence. Areas with little activity fade, while overused zones wear down. Visitors must find a balance between activity and restraint to keep the installation healthy. Textiles by MINGYES @ming_yes_ 3️⃣ It is not what is in it but it is what it is in by @nathandavidsmith AI-powered computers use human data to assess and alter the world. Two AIs talk to each other in a loop: one AI manipulates the world it sees, while the other tells it what to change. Meanwhile, a group of AIs talk about this new reality. 4️⃣ Machine Yearning by @yaashikagoel ‘Machine Yearning’ invites you to imagine alternative futures with emerging Artificial Intelligence. In dialogue with our everyday longing for change, the AI patterns, glitches, and iterates to learn what it means to yearn. Code consultant - Anushka Agrawal Design and animation by @np._.studio Sound design by @bleepsworld

Thanks to everyone who came to our show! Had lots of fun and interesting conversations while showing my work 🫶 I have some more interesting footage that I’ll share with you in the coming days. #art #bioart #rca #rca2024

📣 This Summer, see my work at #RCA2024 – a series of exhibitions and events and activities, showcasing the work of graduating RCA students, running from 20 June to 4 August! ✌️ RCA2024 will take place across four parts – but I will be showing at the Festival of Communication from 19 to 21 July! 👀 See more from RCA students at… 📆 School of Design postgraduate exhibitions and events, Part 1: 12–14 July 2024 and Part 2: 19–21 July 2024 📆 School of Architecture postgraduate exhibitions and events, 12–14 July 2024 📆 The Festival of Communication – a series of events and exhibitions from the School of Communication, selected dates between 17 July and 4 August Learn more: /rca2024

Nahuel Basterretche @nahbaste builds software-hardware-wetware hybrids that explore information processing, identity, emergence and complexity. Culture Mining is an installation exploring artificial sensing, mastery and control through data. It puts into question the dynamics surrounding data gathering and communication between human and non-human agents. Nahuel is exhibiting an installation at Specctra TĦÍS TĦUŘSÐĀŸ 20ȚĦ JÛŅĒ at @peckham_audio

Prototyping my next work.