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Inspired by the works of surrealists and the realm of unconsciousness, the work depicts an altered state of the mind. Starting from a photo of an eye painted on a wall, the photo was then processed through different softwares to achieve a mesmerizing yeat unsetling composition. Recalling the camera effects used in films such as Naked Lunch, Natural Born Killers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this hypnotic animation captures the viewers attention suggesting a sense of vertigo and unstabling pleasure.
Domenico Barra (b. 1982) is an Italian artist working with new digital media living and working in Napoli, Italy. His works have been published on various sites and magazines including The Creators Project, Motherboard, Hyperallergic, Monopol, Observer, Artribune, Exibart and Digicult. He took part in numerous curatorial projects and the works exhibited at the DAM Gallery in Berlin, at the Media Center in New York, at the Digital Art Center in Taipei, online at World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO], at the Central Academy of Fine Arts [CAFA] in Beijing, at the MediaLAB of the University of Brasilia, at the Wrong Biennale. In 2016 was a visiting artist at the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He is listed in the second volume of "Quaderni della Farnesina", an insitutional publication by the Italian Minister of Foreing Affairs. Barra is the creator of the online art network White Page Gallery/s. He teaches glitch art at the Rome University of Fine Arts [RUFA].
