Violent Violins Exposed is an audiovisual installation that transforms Babak Ahteshamipour’s album of the same name into a spatial experience. The starting point is three tracks, for each of which unique video worlds were created: fragmentary universes that resonate with each other and create a dark, violence-infused atmosphere. The work revolves around themes such as technological singularity, cybernetic warfare, and ecological destruction, intertwining these with the dynamics of extractivism, the pursuit of capitalist immortality, and the promises of transhumanism. This creates a complex tapestry of image and sound, reflecting dark dreams and despair, while also revealing the mechanisms of an accelerated world. What is presented is not just an album as an installation, but an artistic commentary on the upheavals of a global present that is increasingly dominated by its own technologies.
Violent Violins Exposed
An installation between music, image, and dystopian imagination
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, musician, graphic designer, author/researcher, creative director, and curator working in Vienna (AT) and Athens (GR). His work moves between disciplines such as 3D, graphic design, and music, which meet in a common language and explore themes from cyberspace to ecology and from politics to identity through gaming and internet culture. His works have been presented at festivals, venues, and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou and Onassis ONX, and featured in magazines and platforms such as Bandcamp Daily and the CTM Festival magazine. He has released music on independent labels such as Industrial Coast and Jollies and shared the stage with musician s like Zoviet France and HELM. In addition, he has collaborated with musician s like Fire-Toolz and Digifae.