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2023
Kamil Czapiga, also known as Cosmodernism, is a Polish artist whose creative adventure began in his adolescent years when he joined the local art school and later continued his artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Katowice. Studying Graphic Design, he received a bachelor's degree from the illustration class of 2012 and began his career as an illustrator and tattoo artist, running a tattoo studio and creating original designs for clients from both Poland and abroad. In April 2023, Kamil Czapiga decided to focus exclusively on his Cosmodernism intermedia art project, comprised of abstract video art, photography, and original sound design. This project allows Kamil to explore personal abstract expression through micro and macro observations captured with a microscope and hand-made precision optics mechanisms, resulting in images that feel otherworldly, but are firmly rooted in real scientific experiments. Kamil uses various kinds of chemicals, dyes, objects, interesting reactions, both from the world of chemistry and physics, despite not having a scientific background, choosing to follow his own intuition and trial-and error method instead.
In addition to his strictly authorial work, his project is also based on various collaborations with other artists, musicians, institutions and brands, such as the European Space Agency and DTU.

Microloop_069 is built from macro recordings (15-20 mm scale) of ferrofluid experiments, observed from above - a top-down view where the surface becomes a field of repeating patterns.
By mixing the magnetic liquid with colored inks and other fluids, the ferrofluid’s behavior is intentionally disturbed. Under the pull of a strong magnet, it forms sharp spikes and clustered structures that rise, multiply, and reorganize. From this angle, the spikes read almost like eyes - a shifting array of dark pupils and iridescent halos, appearing and disappearing as the liquid locks into new configurations.
Everything in the image is physical and captured in-camera: real matter responding to force, producing symmetry, rupture, and unexpected rhythm without any digital fabrication.
The soundtrack, built from voice samples and synthesizers, amplifies the sense of a system that is alert, reactive, and constantly re-patterning itself.
Microloop_069 is part of my ongoing Microloops series - short-form audiovisual works exploring the strange, cinematic intelligence of materials under constraint.
video
portrait
00:19
2023