Paula Vītola is an interdisciplinary artist based in Liepaja, Latvia. Trained in the fields of media and visual arts, her artistic interests have shifted mostly towards sound art. In her artistic practice she is experimenting with natural and physical phenomena such as light, radio and electricity. The artist is creating prototypes, artworks and performances exploring signals and invisible energies, their materiality and relationships, as well as phenomena of human perception. It’s the belief of the artist that media and multi-sensory art can make one’s life longer by triggering their curiosity and awareness.

Vītola has developed a prototype for an audiovisual synthesizer that directly transforms stroboscopic light and moving shadows into a sound signal. The sounds are made in the visual output created by the instrument. During her performance Paula Vītola catches photons in space and turns them into various noises, tones, beats; she sculpts the sounds with hand movements in real time. The performance allows the audience to directly perceive signal materiality and the thresholds of our perception.

Paula Vītola is currently an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the EU.

Paula Vītola is currently an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the EU and Pro Helvetia as well as the Ministry of Culture of Latvia.