Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand create interdisciplinary art works, which integrate chemi-physical experimentation with optics and computer science. The artists use current techniques, particularly regarding waveform phenomena to investigate questions of perception and immortality.

By probing the patterns of extra-corporeal transformations, Domnitch and Gelfand have created art works that spread across a scale of sensorial bandwidths. The work "Opening Coccyx" exists as installation as well as interactive performance in which the performer/viewer initiates chain reactions of colliding energy systems. In "Opening Coccyx", pressure waves unleashed in a liquid solution trigger a continuum of waveform patterns, which, in turn, incite chemical reactions of varying intensities, resulting in respectively varying light patterns.

The idea of the installation is connected to the Buddhist concept of enlightenment as a final blessed state, and is based upon scientific data that only after birth baby's nine sacral and tailbones are fused into two, enabling the trunk of the body to stand upright. Until this process is completed it is not possible to reach an illuminated mode.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Born in Minsk, Belorussia

Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

1989-94   State Belorussian University, Minsk, Philosophical Department

1992-94   European Humanitarian University

1996   Ph.D. program in Philosophy, Fordham University, NYC

Evelina Domnitch works in collaboration with Dmitry Gelfand since 1998

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002   Opening Coccyx . Chemi-luminescent installation with a sound. Diapason Sound Gallery, NYC

2000   "Wakening Shrouds". Indoor installation, White Box Gallery, NYC

1999   "Facelift". Optical and sound installation. Parallel Gallery, NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002   "Ephemeralization . Remote, NYC. Curated by Michele Thursz

2001   9th New York Digital Salon. School of the Visual Arts and Leonardo Magazine (MIT), NYC
"From the Ashes . C.U.A.N.D.O. Complex, NYC
"A Glass Clock". Blue Room, Baltimore

2000   "Interferences 2". International Media Festival, Belfort, France
"Theatre of Transparencies". Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, Austria
"Mir". Sound installation with Sergei Bugaev. 1-20 Gallery, NYC

1999   "Psycho-Acoustic Event". Sound installations. Roulette Sound Gallery, NYC