op7
by Otolab (Digicult, +39)

Otolab was born in 2001 in Milan as an affinity group made up of musicians, djs, vjs, video artists, video makers, web designers, graphic designers and architects who embarked on a common path within electronic music and audiovisual research. Otolab projects evolve through laboratory, seminar and live set activities following principles of mutual exchange and support, free dissemination of knowledge and experimentation.

The work-group is composed of individual and collective projects ranging from djing/vjing sets up to live media and interactive installations, always investigating a symbiotic relationship between sounds and images. These years of life have seen Otolab being invited to national and international festivals where it has presented its self-produced live sets, audio and audiovisual productions, project presentations, workshops and installations, besides having promoted self-managed cultural initiatives.

op7 is a live audiovisual performance that develops a new way of reading the concept of the tunnel as a metaphor of the journey and the survey about the audiovisual perception, through the optical language. The project was commissioned by Marco Mancuso/Digicult and realized for the Mixed Media festival 2006 taking place at the Hangar Bicocca in Milan-Italy in front of the installation “Seven Heavenly Doors” of Belgian artist Anselm Kiefer. Seven entrances, seven tunnels, seven journeys throughout as many experience optical environments looking for the final entire and unique wholeness.

• – Otolab website