Fran Simó - Art: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/ - Statement: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/statement/ - New media art: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/ - Rivers of Souls: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/Rivers_of_souls/ - #Selfie_v2: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/Selfie_v2/ - God is in the bugs: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/God_is_in_the_bugs/ - Shared Folder (Red box) v'21: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/Shared_folder_v21/ - Buy me a life!: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/Buy_me_a_life/ - Shared Folder (Red box): https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/Shared_folder_red_box/ - I dreamed about a human being: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/new_media_art/I_dreamed_about_a_human_being/ - Books & zines: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/ - Passengers Vol. III: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Passengers_Vol_III/ - In the End, You Always Reach Your Destination: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Passengers_Vol_III/Al_final_siempre_llegas_a_tu_destino/ - CODE by R.Mutt: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Code_by_r_mutt/ - Susurros (Whispers): https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Susurros/ - Heaven: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Heaven/ - S'Arenal Summertime 2016: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/SArenal_summertime_2016/ - 22.2: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/22.2/ - Traces - 2013.12.07 - Barcelona: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Traces_barcelona/ - Passengers 2012: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Passengers_2012/ - Participative Processes on the Web: Making of Passengers 2012: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Passengers_2012/Participative_processes_on_the_web_making_of_passengers_2012/ - Passengers: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Passengers/ - From the Kodak Brownie to the iPhone: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Passengers/From_the_Kodak_Brownie_to_the_iPhone/ - “Arrinconado” (Cornered): https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/Arrinconado/ - 22: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/books/22/ - Photography: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/photography/ - The Whisper of the Nymphs: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/photography/The_Whisper_of_the_Nymphs/ - Traces (personal drifts): https://fransimo.info/docs/art/photography/Traces_personal_drifts/ - Es lloga (For Rent): https://fransimo.info/docs/art/photography/Es_Lloga/ - It is in all of us: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/ - Sibyl: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/sibyl/ - Journey: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/journey/ - First part: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/first-part/ - Methodology: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/first-part/methodology/ - A Little Guide to Talking with Trees: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/first-part/talking_with_the_trees/ - References: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/first-part/talking_with_the_trees/references/ - Drawings: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/first-part/drawing/ - Binary Jumps: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/first-part/binary_links/ - Bibliography: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/bibliography/ - Acknowledgments: https://fransimo.info/docs/art/It_is_in_all_of_us/gratitude/ - Presence: https://fransimo.info/docs/presence/ - Tameana: https://fransimo.info/docs/presence/tameana/ - Biodynamic Craniosacral: https://fransimo.info/docs/presence/biodynamic_craniosacral/ - Bodywork & Energy: https://fransimo.info/docs/presence/holistic_session/ - Book a session: https://fransimo.info/docs/presence/book/ - Promotion Istanbul and Barcelona: https://fransimo.info/docs/presence/promo/ - Code: https://fransimo.info/docs/code/ - About: https://fransimo.info/docs/cv/ - Detailed CV: https://fransimo.info/docs/cv/detailed_cv/ - Contact: https://fransimo.info/docs/contact/ {{< youtube id=aiSQLV2lwQI autoplay=true loop=false mute=false allowFullScreen=true >}} {{% details title="Technical details" open=true %}} - 2013-2014. Produced: 2025. - Single-channel glitch 4k video with original loop-based stereo score by the artist; 2′09″. - Built from a time-lapse of 6,341 long-exposure photographs shot in the Barcelona Metro. {{% /details %}} # Rivers of Souls > We flow in our technology like water building its own caves. Absent and unconscious. Frightened, bulging and forgotten by ourselves. We forget that life, as we perceive it physically, is the sum of infinite errors in the process of evolution. > > Deaf to the whisper of error amid the noise of the current. We ignore the visions: beauty, madness, compassion. The whisper insists: beauty, madness, compassion. Evolutionary fear drags us down, deafens us and blinds us. We fall back into transformation for transformation's sake. > > In the senseless chaos of our evolution, it seems that the only thing that can save us is the same thing that created us, an error or a fortuitous combination of errors. Perhaps [God is in the bugs](../God_is_in_the_bugs). Rivers of Souls treats rush hour traffic as an organism that travels through the infrastructure we have created. By collapsing time with long exposures, the images blur individuals into a single stream, revealing how technology and architecture shape collective movement. The use of glitches in the video and musical loops with errors pursues a sense of randomness through controlled variations that never quite repeat themselves. In this context, error is not a failure, but the source of evolution through which living systems adapt and cultures change. The work proposes listening to that whisper — beauty, madness, compassion — and confronting the evolutionary fear that drives us to transform for the sake of transforming. The medium is not important, but rather the flow that runs through it: life understood as an informational process that self-produces and drifts. ‘Rivers of Souls’ is thus conceived as a device for observing that drift and embracing error as a driving force and method. ## Video frames ![](Rivers_of_souls.jpg) {{< load-photoswipe >}} {{< gallery >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0001__0028_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0002__0228_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0003__0300_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0004__0481_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0005__0504_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0006__0610_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0007__0725_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0008__0751_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0009__0844_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0010__0983_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0011__1185_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0012__1215_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0013__1262_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0014__1331_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0015__1517_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0016__1759_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0017__1760_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0018__1838_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0019__1976_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0020__2150_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0021__2204_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0022__2237_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0023__2430_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0024__2453_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0025__2531_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0026__2543_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0027__2561_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0028__2568_.jpg" >}} {{< picture src="Rivers_of_Souls_0029__2575_.jpg" >}} {{< /gallery >}} > Translated with DeepL.com (free version)