Omnia Sol

SAIC SHOWS 2025 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2025 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation

Omnia Sol is a multidisciplinary artist and musician whose work explores the intersection of nostalgia, media archaeology, and the surreal landscapes that emerge between analog and digital glitch aesthetics. Omnia Sol works both solo as an audiovisual artist and as part of several collaborative projects. They are a member of WNTSAD, a collective with Ian Kang, Yun Lee, Yiyi Liu, and Do Trong Quy, as well as Dangdut Stereo, a collaboration with Ravinda D. Wibowo. Additionally, Omnia Sol creates visuals for DJs and performers within Chicago’s underground DIY rave scene, pushing the boundaries of live audiovisual performance.

Liquid Analog, 2024, projection and sound, 165 x 556 ft., photo by Lizzie Moo

Liquid Analog draws on Chicago's rich legacy of video and sound art. The visual and sonic design is inspired by the Sandin Image Processor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, developed by Dan Sandin and Phil Morton in the 1970s, as well as the work of Bob Snyder with the Emu synthesizer, developed by Dave Rossum in 1973. Drawing on the historic Electronic Visualization Events organized by Sandin and others, Liquid Analog combines video and sound synthesis with analog liquid lights to create a visualization of the Sandin Image Processor on the facade of the Merchandise Mart. Projection by Omnia Sol Sound by Rongzhang Cao Building on last year's successful collaboration, ART on THE MART's 2024 winter season showcases emerging talent from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), a renowned Chicago institution internationally recognized as one of the leading art and design schools in the world. 'Wavelength' is a new commission created by graduate and senior undergraduate students from SAIC, who have paired up to produce 11 unique works. Centered around the theme of 'Wavelength', the students were invited to explore the site-specific nature of THE MART and how visual and audio media are rooted in the same physical principles. Each participating pair of students—one focusing on the visual projection and the other on the audio segment—brings a unique approach and expertise in materials, tools, and collaborative processes to the project. 'Wavelength' was developed under the guidance of Jan Tichy, an ART on THE MART alumnus who debuted his commission 'Artes in Horto – Seven Gardens for Chicago' during the platform’s inaugural year in 2018, and Austen Brown, a Chicago-based sound artist and educator. Both Tichy and Brown are faculty members in SAIC's Department of Art & Technology/Sound Practices.

Dangdut Stereo, 2024, audiovisual performance with Ravinda D Wibowo, Asian Improv aRts MidWest

This audiovisual performance was a part of SAIC ATSP's Sound Art Exhibition "Waveforms". Dangdut Stereo is a performance project that attempts to recreate auditory hallucinations Ravinda D Wibowo frequently experienced in Jakarta circa 2017-2019. These hallucinations, with their flooding, reverberant quality and stereo shifts, of Dangdut music and intrusive thoughts, are reimagined through digital and analog techniques, an immersive wet auditory mix for the audience. By merging Dangdut music and Indonesian horror cinema, the project transforms personal experience into a shared exploration of sound, culture, censorship and collective imagination.

100% AUTHENTIC BOOTLEG, 2025, video still, liquid lights datamoshing, circuit bending video manipulation,

100% AUTHENTIC BOOTLEG is a audiovisual album by Omnia Sol that focuses on decay, distribution, nostalgia, and transformation. This album asks the question "Can a VJ set exist as film?"

Liquid Analog, 2024, Video, 2 mins.

Gordon D. Fung & Omnia Sol LIVE at Waveforms s24, 2024, Video, 8 mins.

Overview, 2024, Video, 11 mins.

I am a multidisciplinary artist and musician whose work deals with the relationship of nostalgia to media archeology and the surrealist landscapes found between spaces of analog and digital glitch. I originally began pursuing visual art through techniques of traditional woodblock printmaking and comics, receiving my BFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 2014. After graduation my artistic pursuits led me down a path of exploration in painting, installation, and performance. In 2020 I began exploring more with time-based media such as video and sound art. As an avid collector of old physical media such as VHS and an enthusiast of analog technology in its application to visual and sonic art, I began The Omnia Sol Art Show in 2020. This glitch art video talk show consists of artist interviews, music videos, and an expansive onslaught of colorful (and occasionally strobing) plunderoptic video art. My friends call me Syd but I perform as an audiovisual artist under the moniker Omnia Sol as well as providing visuals for DJs and other musicians in the Chicago underground DIT rave scene. I am fascinated by everything related to glitch in both an analog and digital tradition and the strange crossovers than can happen with the flow of signal. At SAIC I had the opportunity to work with the historic Sandin Image Processor and create a projection piece for ART on THE MART celebrating this historic and innovative image making technology. My current work explores the congealing of audiovisual rave experience within the movie theater setting as a new form of expanded cinema.

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