„Die hauptsächlichen Eigenschaften des Lichts sind: 1. Es dehnt sich kreisförmig nach allen Seiten um Körper aus, die man
leuchtend nennt. 2. Und in jede Entfernung. 3. Und in jedem Moment. 4. Und gewöhnlich in geraden Linien, die man für die
Lichtstrahlen halten muss. 5. Und mehrere dieser Strahlen, die von verschiedenen Punkten kommen, können sich in ein und
demselben Punkt versammeln. 6. Oder, von ein und demselben Punkt kommend, können sie sich an verschiedene Punkte
begeben. 7. Oder, von verschiedenen Punkten kommend und nach verschiedenen Punkten strebend, können sie durch ein und
denselben Punkt gehen, ohne einander zu behindern. 8. Und sie können sich manchmal auch wechselseitig behindern, nämlich
wenn ihre Kraft sehr ungleich ist, und die der einen viel grösser ist als die der anderen. 9. Und schliesslich können sie durch
Reflexion abgelenkt werden. 10. Oder durch Brechung. 11. Und ihre Kraft kann vermehrt werden, 12. oder durch die
verschiedenen Qualitäten der Materie, die sie empfängt, vermindert. Das sind die hauptsächlichen Qualitäten, die man am Licht
beobachtet, welche alle dieser Tätigkeit entsprechen, wie Sie sehen werden.“
berlin07 @ transmediale
i really really dig this installation – just dont remember by whom?!
reminds me a bit of hito steierls work at the documenta (3 orange cinema displays)
I forgot all about good ole Dextro. This was the site back in the day, no explanation, crazy work and truly inventive for its time. One of my all time favorites and I very happy to see its still going. Dig around, you will find some nice stuff!
On a screen hanging in space a green lazer draws a breathing image of a sea. Created from multiple undulating waveforms (that reduce in perpective) this is not, however, an illustration of a sea but in fact an artificial sea in itself. If the weather outside the building is stormy the onscreen ‘sea’ becomes violently agitated, if there is no wind the image becomes a series of only slightly shimmering straight lines. As the tide rises in the ‘real’ sea, the automaton sea will also rise higher filling the screen with its ghostly line drawn waves.
Beneath the screen, various read-outs and displays show weather data that is collected from various weather gauges outside the building. As the wind-speed (shown on a numeric display) increases the wave forms will become more agitated, as the wind direction changes, the shape of the wave forms responds, as the pressure drops one wave form will enter a new state. One numeric display shows the current position of the moon, another reads meters plus and minus – the current level of the tide.
Brief Design a concept for an installation that is bound to a specific a public space at the school. Construct a functional mock-up.
Concept Forget all what you’ve learned in school during biology classes. This plant-like lamp has struck roots in a dark corner and feeds on sunlight. The light that hits the floor by a nearby doorway slows down and floats seeking the bare roots. When the door is opened and light rushes in the lamp-plant lights up as a welcoming gesture.
Evaluation The installation was functional for 2 weeks in the hallway to the cantina and was given positive feedback from a lot of the passing students. The school granted the project an “A” grade.
Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens. Listening Post cycles through a series of six movements, each a different arrangement of visual, aural, and musical elements, each with it’s own data processing logic. Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, Listening Post is a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.
“Bridge is a spectacular new site-specific design commission for Dilston Grove, London (Cafe Gallery Projects) by Michael Cross. Housed in a former church, (one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction and a Grade II listed building), the piece comprises submerging two thirds of the inside of the church in water, and producing a series of steps which rise out of the apparently empty man-made ‘lake’ as you walk across them. Each step emerges one step in front of you and disappears back underneath behind you as you go. This ‘bridge’ is purely mechanical, the weight of the person on it depresses each step a little, this force activates a submerged mechanism which raises the next step.
The public are invited to walk out on it as if walking on water, eventually reaching the middle of the lake, thirty steps and twelve meters from the shore. There they will stand alone and detached, stranded in the middle of a plane of water until they choose to return the way they came. For some people this experience of being cut off and surrounded by water will be peaceful, for others terrifying. For some walking across the water will be pure childish joy, whilst others will be too scared to try”.
