Tin y Pluri

Fusing microscopic imagery, rock music, and particle group’s signature poetic incantations, which draw on concrete poetry and the aesthetic strategies of visual/textual interplay, “Tin y Pluri” has the feel of a music video. Indeed, it was originally designed to be exhibited on the iPod nano, a product that came out in the mid-2000s, when the idea of “nanotech” was synonymous with the future. Tin refers to the Tijuana Institute of Nanotechnology, a speculative space for nano-scale research and art production inaugurated in 2012. As artists engaged with scientific research, particle group question science’s narrative “engines of creation” and the aestheticized practices and “naturalized” conceptualisms inherent in research, investigation, discovery, and data transfer within scientific communities’ articulations of self. By recombining the rational and the impulsive, particle group’s media interventions invite us to question what we know about the synthetic material world we are surrounded by — what we buy, use, live in, and consume.