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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_218 is based on macro-scale recordings (7–10 mm) of experiments with liquid inks combined with carefully selected chemical substances that influence their behavior.
Through these mixtures, the inks begin to shift across the surface in uneven, evolving formations. Color spreads, contracts, and overlaps, producing patterns that change continuously as the liquids interact. The image focuses on these subtle transitions, where motion emerges from material properties rather than external force.
What unfolds on screen is a direct record of chemical interaction in progress. The visuals are captured entirely in-camera, preserving the immediacy and unpredictability of the process as it develops in real time.
The accompanying sound layer, built from voice samples and synthesizers, complements the visual flow while remaining secondary to the image.
Microloop_218 is part of the ongoing Microloops series, exploring how variations in liquid composition can generate complex visual behavior through natural interaction at macro scale.
video
landscape
00:59
2025