Archived entries for artists
Carlos Cruz-Diez
A contemporary theorist of color whose artistic proposal
is based on four chromatic conditions: subtractive, additive,
inductive and reflected color.
Nichola Kinch
Lithophane Electrotachyscope
Machine designed to animate simple loop of illuminated lithophanes.
Animation is water spiraling down the drain Installation shot of “Down the Drain”.
Doing Nothing
We are constantly doing things with the general purpose to make ourselves and others more content. Could doing nothing however also be a means to this end? For his residency project Doing Nothing Maarten Hunink explored a possible answer to this question, by simply doing nothing. Curious what that’s like? You are warmly invited to sit down and join Hunink in observing what happens when you do nothing.
Pieter Vermeersch
Gradations, 2010
Time, space and colour.
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Doug Wheeler
49 Nord 6 Est POV Luminiferous Light Volume
Phosphorescent paint applied to existing architecture, metal halide projectors
SPACE
Perfect Harmony
Audio Visual
1. Place an amplifier and a slide projector directly facing each other.
2. Fill the slide projectors carousal full of slides taken of the amplifier.
3. Run a microphone from the amplifier and place it on the top of the slide carousal.
4. Turn the amplifier on full volume and the slide projector on constant projection.
The slide projector will project the amplifier at the amplifier,
and the amplifier will project the sound of the slide projector at the slide projector.
The sound and visual function in perfect harmony.
Daniel Eatock
Daniel Eatock – Manifesto
Begin with ideas
Embrace chance
Celebrate coincidence
Ad-lib and make things up
Eliminate superfluous elements
Subvert expectation
Make something difficult look easy
Be first or last
Believe complex ideas can produce simple things
Trust the process
Allow concepts to determine form
Reduce material and production to their essence
Sustain the integrity of an idea
Propose honesty as a solution
J. M. W. Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844).
Is said to have uttered the last words “The Sun is God”
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Bálint Bolygó
Trace
A revolving plaster cast of the artist’s head is slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram that changes as time passes.
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Algorithm X and Y
This light projecting mechanism responds to the movement of people around the object and moves large Petri dishes of coloured pigments along the X and Y axis.
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Aram Bartholl
Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the changes on the 5×5 pixel screen.
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
‘Pulse Room’
This room is an interactive installation consisting of one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, which are 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of three meters. The light bulbs are distributed over the exhibition room, filling it completely. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing sequence advances by one position down the queue, to the next bulb in the grid. Each time someone touches the interface a heart pattern is recorded and this is sent to the first bulb in the grid, pushing ahead all the existing recordings.
Morphovision
Distorted House
Morphovision is a unique display system that interactively transforms and animates a 3D solid object before our eyes. In this system, a model house is rotated at high speed, and is illuminated with special lighting from a digital projector. This enables the model to be distorted into various shapes.
Laszlo Moholy Nagy
light space modulator
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So Many Light Space Modulators
United Visual Artists
UVA is a London based art practice that combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and architecture.
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Rockne Krebs
The Green Hypotenuse,
7-mile-long laser beam from Mt. Wilson to Caltech, Pasadena, CA., 1983
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David Rokeby
Cheap Imitation (2002)
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase is interactively dissected and animated.
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Domnitch & Gelfand
Camera Lucida, 2003
Evelina Domnitch & Dimitry Gelfand
Within a transparent chamber filled with water, sound waves are transformed into light emissions by employing a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence.
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Abraham Palatnik
‘Aparelho Cinecromático (cinechromatic machines)’, 1964.
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“project compositions of color light forms moving on semi-clear surfaces”
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Jean Dupuy
Heart Beats Dust – Cone Pyramid, 1968
In a black rectangular box, a window at eye level opens onto a 24′ cube which houses the sculpture. The form is created by thrusting dust up into a cone of light. The dust is Lithol Rubine, a brilliant red pigment chosen for its ability to remain suspended in air for long periods. The thrust is achieved by amplified heart-beats from an attached stethoscope or a continuous loop tape recording of heartbeats played on a speaker mounted directly under a tightly stretched rubber membrane upon which the dust sits.
Thomas Wilfred
A freeze-frame image of:
Early Clavilux Jr, ca. 1930.
Conventional artists manipulate materials [stone, pigments, etc.]. These ‘objects’ reflect light into our eyes to form the images they want us to see. If there were no light, we could not experience their art. In contrast, Wilfred ‘sculptured’ light directly.
Art and Electronic Media
A landmark survey examining the pivotal role of new technologies in recent artistic innovation.
Motion, Duration, Illumination
Jeff Crossman
Industrial Light Painting aims to create high fidelity three-dimensional light paintings of real people. This is done by combining the precision of a computer controlled industrial arm and a RGB LED with a Kinect camera to capture and recreate portraits in depth and color.
Stan Shaff
audium
“I ask listeners to see with their ears and feel with their bodies
sounds as images, dreams and memories.
As people walk into a work, they become part of its realization.
From entrance to exit, AUDIUM is a sound-space continuum.”
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Liz Deschenes
Ms. Deschenes’s whole career has consisted
of stripping photography to its core,
exposing the apparatus.
What is gained by threading this practice
through the needle of minimalism?
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Deschenes’ practice makes visible the materials,
properties, and chemical processes of photography
rather than represent the external world.
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Tokihiro Satō
Photo-Respiration #1 1988
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Hollis Frampton
Hollis Frampton’s Lemon (1969) examines the nature of vision, illusion, spatiality, and film. Unlike Frampton’s Nostalgia, Lemon is silent. It is a minimalist movie, in which a single static shot of a lemon continually changing in appearance as the light on screen changes. The film is thematically similar to Frampton’s Poetic Justice, which also examines film’s physical presence.
Brice Bischoff
Bronson Caves
In the series of photographs titled Bronson Caves, the caves served as a stage set yet again. I performed actions for the camera with massive sheets of colored paper. Since a long-exposure photograph was produced rather than a motion picture, the papers were recorded as voluminous, glowing colors. The materiality of the rainbowed forms, emerging from the mouth of the cave, dancing about the canyon, and bubbling up from the ground, are based solely in the photographic process, and can only be experienced when viewing the final photographic prints. If a visitor to the caves were to accidently stumble upon my performance they would only see a mass of crumbled colored paper draped awkwardly over a man moving/dancing to a camera positioned on a tripod. The goal of these performances was to create sculptural, photographic objects that interacted with the history and architecture of the caves.
Void Drawing
Circle – Songpa-gu
Point A: 37°29’51.53” N, 127°07’45.01” E, elevation 2.08 km
Point B: 37°30’37.68” N, 127°08’01.83” E, elevation 0.6 km
Diameter: 1.48km
voidDrawing.circle(37.497647, 127.129169, 2080.0, 37.510467, 127.133842, 600.0);
// (latitude_A, longitude_A, altitude_A, latitude_B, longitude_B, altitude_B);
In Almost Every Picture
The fourteenth edition of Erik Kessels’ found photography series presents a semi-nude detective story: who chopped the heads off all the sunbathers?
Useful Photography
Cut out a photograph from a wholesale butcher’s brochure, hang it over your bed, and a year later you still won’t be bored of it. It is precisely these photographs we are confronted with daily, without even being aware of it, that can hold our interest for an astonishingly long time. Photography from sales catalogues, instruction manuals, packaging, brochures and textbooks. Anonymous, because what photographer expects to create a furore with a chicken breast photo? As soon as the images are taken out of their original context and placed in a new one, they can produce interesting results.