Audiovisual / live performance / Immersive installation
anomalia X3m
ANOMALIA X3M is an immersive xenopoetic audiovisual installation that explores the interaction between extreme geophysical phenomena and the evolution of life in speculative scenarios.
The piece is part of the Anomalía project by Tanky and C03RA, set within the context of the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly, an area where the weakening of Earth's magnetic field allows for greater exposure to cosmic radiation.
ANOMALIA X3M shifts away from an anthropocentric perspective and speculates on how this vast and still poorly understood phenomenon could influence the emergence of new species and ecosystems.
Inspired by the most extreme ecosystems and the adaptability of extremophile organisms, we compiled and curated an extensive photographic archive of hostile landscapes and lifeforms that thrive in harsh conditions. Using this corpus, we trained generative Artificial Intelligence models to identify patterns of adaptation and imagine accelerated evolutionary processes and new organisms shaped by radiation-induced mutations. AI was used as a speculative and experimental laboratory to generate representations of novel lifeforms and alternative ecosystems in which they might flourish.
The piece’s sound design employs synthesis and electromagnetic frequencies translated into sonic landscapes.
Anomalía X3M audiovisual immersive installation at Magma Futura. Montevideo, Uruguay.
In its immersive installation form, Anomalía X3M won First Prize at the Imagen Viva awards and premiered at Magma Futura in April 2025.
In the words of juror Valentina Montero Peña:
“Digital images proliferate, capturing our gaze and our consciousness. Imaging technologies have become complex sociotechnical assemblages that have deeply shaped how we see the world and ourselves. Today, photography is no longer just that ‘mirror with a memory’ —as the daguerreotype was once called in the 19th century—; now, screens have turned into mirages that recreate our political, pornographic, terrifying, utopian, or apocalyptic fantasies.
Our relationship with technical images condenses a dimension where memories, bodies, fictions, and possible futures are negotiated. Their mutable and programmable nature transforms them into a field of forces where the political, aesthetic, and technological are intertwined, dazzling us.
The winning projects of Imagen Viva enter this critical arena, pushing the boundaries between the visible and the hidden. Anomalía X3M, by Leticia Almeida and Mathías Chumino, places us at the threshold of scientific speculation and biological fiction. By linking photographic archives with artificial intelligence, the piece questions the production of life beyond the human scale.”
In October, 2025, Anomalía X3M was part of the 17th Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago (Chile), curated by Nicolás Oyarce.
A longer, site-specific version of its immersive format was installed at the Universidad Católica de Chile in the newly inaugurated immersive lab LAITEC.
Anomalía X3M,immersive installation at LAITEC, UC. Santiago, Chile.
During the biennial the artists also gave a talk on Anomalía and their practice
Anomalía X3M,immersive installation, talk, at LAITEC, UC. Santiago, Chile.
Anomalía X3M then evolved into a live audiovisual performance and in October 2025 it was selected to close the 5th edition of the Festival Internacional de Artes Mediales in Valparaíso, Chile with a monumental installation at the historic Mercado Puerto, with an audience of over 400 people.
Anomalía X3M, live performance, 5 screens videowall, immersive sound. Mercado Puerto. Valparaíso, Chile.
Anomalía X3M, live performance, 5 screens videowall, immersive sound. Mercado Puerto. Valparaíso, Chile.
From November 2025 to March 2026, a single-channel video from the series is part of the group exhibition Resonancias desde el Abismo, curated by Fabiana Puentes, at the Centro Cultural de España in Montevideo (CCE).
Anomalía X3M, single-channel video. Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo (CCE).
*Images of the Imagen Viva awards by Carlos López for Magma Futura. Images of the Festival de Artes Mediales de Valparaíso by Kika Francisca González for Hub Creativo.
ANOMALíA X3M
Leticia Almeida (Tanky) & Mathías Chumino (C03RA)
2025
Immersive installation, live performance, soundscape
past EXHIBITIONS +
AWARDS
February 10
2026
Resonancias desde el abismo activation
Live performance
CCE (Centro Cultural de España) Montevideo, Uruguay
November - March
2025-2026
Resonancias desde el abismo
Single channel video
Curator: Fabiana Puentes.
CCE (Centro Cultural de España) Montevideo, Uruguay
October 17-22
2025
17 Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago
Site-specific, immersive audiovisual installation + talk/panel discussion
Curator: Nicolás Oyarce
Supported by: INAV - Instituto Nacional de Artes Visuales, Uruguay.
LAITEC UC. Santiago, Chile
October 17
2025
Festival Internacional de Artes Mediales de Valparaíso
Site-specific, immersive audiovisual live performance.
Curator: Valentina Montero Peña
Supported by: INAV - Instituto Nacional de Artes Visuales, Uruguay and Goethe-Institut, Chile
Mercado Puerto. Valparaíso, Chile
March - May
2025
Awarded First Prize “Nobilis” of the Imagen Viva Awards.
Immersive audiovisual installation
Exhibited at Magma Futura. Montevideo, Uruguay