Oded Ella

Resonant Corrosion is a techno-biological installation comprising a series of sculptural terrariums housing autonomous electronic systems that interact with living environments.

At the heart of the installation, microcontrollers and sensors operate a network of tubes that translates both the audience’s behavior and the climatic conditions inside the terrariums into a live musical composition that continuously evolves in real time. The system responds to the viewer’s presence as if it were an external agent disrupting the ecosystem, a potential threat that has entered the space.

The work explores the tension between the artificial and the organic, proposing a new perspective on time, survival, and the fragile balance between living and technological systems.

I try to create a space of escapism. I long for the sanctioned feeling of disconnection:

withdrawing into myself, closing the door, turning off the phone.

I am simply trying to build an environment over which I have complete control, to determine the conditions, light, humidity, and ventilation. To create an internal ecosystem in which I can exist within myself, sustaining my needs without depending on anyone else.

Yet achieving this isolation places me in a constant tension between the heartbeat and the electrical signal. In this project, I construct systems in which the mechanical and the living are compelled to enter into dialogue – at times violent, at times symbiotic.

I am drawn to the threshold that emerges through this pursuit of isolation, the point where a copper wire meets damp soil in an attempt to measure it; where a digital sensor translates body heat or an unfamiliar presence into numerical data; where the terrarium’s glass becomes a boundary, a greenhouse from one side, a cage from the other.

The systems I build in search of control are only semi-autonomous. They possess a pulse of their own, an internal logic composed of code and electric current, yet true severance remains impossible. They are always shaped by their surroundings: by those who observe them, by those who come near, or simply by the passage of time. In the end, complete isolation can never be achieved.