Voice Array by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Voice Array by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer_
As a participant speaks into an intercom, their voice is automatically translated into flashes of light and then this unique blinking pattern is stored as a loop in the first light of the array. Each new recording pushes all previous recordings one position down and gradually one can hear the cumulative sound of the 288 previous recordings. The voice that was pushed out of the array can then be heard by itself. See more;

Jan Willem Deiman

Jan Willem Deiman focuses on processes that explore the relationship between coincidence and design in modern architecture and technology. In his video installations and performances (based on self-written systems), geometric patterns arise that constantly renew themselves and thus disturb the previously made designs. Deiman aims to observe objectively what happens while relinquishing the control of such a system. In drawings of modern decay, he analyses the distortion of architectural constructions as well as the design on which they were initially based. Through constantly developing patterns, Jan Willem Deiman's drawings, models, and videos question the control we have over mechanical and technological production and expose the amount of external influence involved. See more;

Haroon Mirza - \|\|\|\| \|\|\

\|\|\|\| \|\|\ by Haroon Mirza at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen through July 1, 2012.

"\|\|\|\| \|\|\ is not a typing error but the title of a project that is part of a series of works with which Mirza is exploring the idea of site-specificity. He uses architectonic properties of exhibition spaces in various institutions in order to expose them (e.g. shadow gaps or columns). This is done economically and efficiently in that he attempts to achieve the greatest possible effect with the smallest possible intervention in the respective spaces. Mirza started with the show /\/\/\/\ /\ at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, which opened in March. Following the exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen he will conclude the three-part series in May 2012 at the Ernst Schering Stiftung in Berlin with --{}{}{} {}--{}{}{}{}--{}. The cryptic titles are typographical representations of various wave forms. As codes they represent a summary of sound and form that the artist creates in the exhibition spaces." - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. See more;

Trace Heavens by James Nizam

James Nizam is showing (4 - 26 May, 2012) at Gallery Jones "Trace Heavens", an exhibition consisting in a photograph series about his very impressive geometric light sculptures made using directly the sunlight. I found a really good information about "Trace Heavens" and its process at Canadian Art; 

"The large black and white photographs depict the transformation of darkened rooms into uncanny light sculptures that intersect elegant geometry with math-class daydreaming. Bridling sunlight into streamlined rays via perforated and sliced walls, and with the aid of artificial fog to intensify the slants of light, Nizam creates imagery that might bend our perception of photography."  See more;

Thomas Hämén

Kokain (1855), 2011. Digital print 100x70 cm: cocaine molecule star sign.

Thomas Hämén uses the experience and perception, both as subject and method of installation and configuration of various materials. See more;

Distant Light by Sang Jun

Distant Light, a lighting space installation created by Sang Jun.

"Although light makes everything visible, light itself is not usually noticed because we see things reflected against it. When I look toward the sun, normally, everything in my vision turns into visible and invisible. This is nature's rule: an object is only visible when light reflects it. Under a light source, every subject is illuminated in human perception because light amplifies our vision. Ultimately, relationship between light and shadow becomes the threshold of human perception. Sheer curtain walls move by wind current in a dark room filled with haze. The lights comes from somewhere behind curtain walls, and the light makes the movement of curtains visible. An ambivalent feelings in a dark and hazed space drives the viewers self motivation to discover." - Sang Jun. See more;

Tube by Zilvinas Kempinas

I knew about some works of  Zilvinas Kempinas, even I published some of them while ago such as his Double O consisting in two large electric fans at two loops of magnetic tape causing them to seemingly perpetually fly and dance between the fans. But I don't remember to see this great installation called "Tube" which is also built using the same material that Zilvinas Kempinas usually uses, magnetic tape from old VHS. Tube was created in Atelier Calder, Saché, France and then was set up for the Lithuanian pavilion in Venice, 2009. Tube installation offers an optical experience to the viewer creating lots of different moire visual effects,  and as well as a perception of the body and architecture. See more;

The Speed Book by Aram Bartholl

Last January was launched a new book by Aram Bartholl called "The Speed Book" which shows all the artworks, installations, and experimental projects he made from the beginning of his carrier.  The book has been published by Gestalten, as it says Aram Bartholl’s work explores the power structures, the social systems, the cultural innovations, the inner dynamics, the languages, and the products that are shaping our age. This first comprehensive monograph offers entry to an oeuvre in which space and cyberspace mingle and mangle each other, a realm that uses as little technology as possible while still speaking a digital language.  

In Aram's work there is a great connection between the virtual and physical world, he usually transports  stuff from virtual to physical and vice-versa. Another thing I like from his work is that it's quite experimental, craft and simple, but conceptual. As you can see on his blog or vimeo's channel he usually explains everything he works even how he creates his artworks. From people like him one can learn a lot!

Gestalten has just launched a video documentary which summarizes this new publication. I found it really interesting. Aram speaks about everything featured on "The Speed Book". See the video into the post;

Bubble Device by Nicholas Hanna

Nicholas Hanna is lately experiment with textures, patterns and forms produced by the use of water. After create the great 水书法器 Water Calligraphy Device, he has built a new automated device to do huge soap bubbles. As he told us, Nicholas is interested in investigating the aesthetics of bubbles and the continuous, automated production of temporal objects. An influence for this project is Elaine Scarry, and her book On Beauty, in which she presents a theory of beauty as that which begets copies of itself. See more;

Irrational Computing by Ralf Baecker

Irrational Computing by Ralf Baecker, 2011, is an artistic test of material, esthetics and potentials of digital processes. The installation is based on semiconductor crystals – the basic commodity of information technology. The installation consists of five interlinked modules that use the varied electrical and mechanical particularities and characteristics of crystals and minerals and, through their networking, form a kind of primitive macroscopic signal processor. “Irrational Computing” is not supposed to “function” – its aim is to search for the poetic elements on the border between “accuracy” and “chaos” amplifying the mystic and magic side of these materials. See more;

®NOVA · David Quiles Guilló · SPECIAL POST

David Quiles Guilló. photo by Giselle Galvão

®NOVA Festival is a multidimensional art festival, which brings to the forefront of the contemporary audiovisual  arts. The festival is a live construction site, which combines visual art, experimental, contemporary techniques, technological resources. The idea came from ROJO®, founded 11 years ago in Barcelona by David Quiles Guilló, director and curator of the exhibition, whose previous editions have been through São Paulo, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. This year it is going to open in few days, just the next 6th April in Sao Paulo at MIS "Museu da Imagem e do Som"  supported by SESC Pompéia. It will feature the work of over 100 guest artists!

Triangulation Blog is supporting the ®NOVA Festival as online media partner and I really want to dedicate a post to this great event created because of the enthusiasm of David Quiles Guilló. Many of the artists participating on this festival have already been featured here,  I feel there is a really good connection with ®NOVA. For this Special Post we have an excellent interview made by Juliana D Chohfi to David, they both speak everything about and around the festival. Don't miss it! See more;

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Carlo Bernardini

Carlo Bernardini creates fiber optics installations. Bernardini uses the fiber optic since 1996, to transform dark spaces into abstract light environments. His site-specific installations are based on triangular forms, which lines passes through walls, floors, façades and they may be seen floating between buildings. Each installation has its own precise viewpoint, from which it can be seen as a two-dimensional rhomboidal form. Bernardini also works combining steel and optic fibers, to built permanent public sculptures in stainless. See more;

Ryoji Ikeda DB

"Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s title db (short for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between the two exhibition spaces. Ikeda has designed the white room and the black room as counterparts, not only physically (brightness, color), but also conceptually and perceptually. The project is a composition in which time and space are shaped through minimal use of sound, light and visual elements. The exhibition db is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany." - Hamburger Bahnhof. See more;

Chris Fraser

Chris Fraser creates awesome light installations using closed and dark spaces as a camera obscura and letting to enter the different lights from the outdoor through a small and thin customized hole on some part of the room. 

"My light installations use the ‘camera obscura’ as a point of departure. They are immersive optical environments, idealized spaces with discreet openings. In translating the outside world into moving fields of light and color, the projections make an argument for unfixed notion of sight." - Chris Fraser. See more;

Disconnect

"Disconnect is a full-scale installation by Alexandros Tsolakis, Bastian Wibranek and Sebastian Kriegsmann, starts from a simple proposition: more often than not, public space is communally occupied. Despite the immutable forms of architecture, space transforms the moment it’s inhabited; what we do, and what we don’t is spatially inscribed by the simple fact of our engagement. By installing a stretchable membrane across the gallery floor, Disconnect allows visitors to physically register the movements of their co-habitants. As people move over and under the surface, the fabric’s stretch manifests the influence of other bodies as a sensible force. Projected beams of light mark contour lines on the fabric as shifts with movement. Continuing a line of projects initiated by PROGRAM that aim to instill spatial sensitivity, Disconnect similarly seeks to address a wider range of visitors, including the youngest ones." - Program Initiative for Art and Architecture Collaborations. See more;

Prismatica by Kit Webster

Prismatica is an extension of the visual and perceptual experimentations of Kit Webster's Enigmatica installations. This piece consists in arrangements of pyramid-shaped crystals affixed to an LCD screen and illuminated with programmed geometric animations. These animated patterns are precisely mapped to the vertices of the crystals, illuminating them individually. The animations are refracted through the geometry of the crystals in concordance with the perspective of the viewer, which alters the way the illuminations appear and interact with the reflections of the surrounding lights within the space. See more;

Network Time by Spiros Hadjidjanos

Network Time is an internet based unit system created by Spiros Hadjidjanos late 2011, it consists of several Wi-Fi routers arranged in the gallery space providing free Internet access to visitors. The LED that reflects the data-traffic of each router is extended along a fiber optic cable magnifying its flicker. Although the devices look only physically modified, the artist has altered the operating system of each router, to manipulate the fluctuation of the fiber optics. See more;

White Line by Adam Frelin

White Line by Adam Frelin_ 

Fluorescent fixtures and bulbs, steel cable, generator 240' long / 2007 - 175' long / 2009.

"A long line of fluorescent lights were strung along a steel cable spanning the valley between two hills on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. The line of lights slightly bowed to mimic the curve of the valley 50' below. When seen in this natural context fluorescent light is peculiarly similar to moonlight, yet the shadows it created, and the manner in which the valley was illuminated, were almost supernatural in appearance. A similar version was commissioned by the American Embassy for the International House of Japan. "White Line (Tokyo)" functioned like an effects machine, transforming their Japanese garden into an eerie, psychedelic wonderland." - Adam Frelin. See more;

Finnbogi Pétursson

The following projects by Finnbogi Pétursson, are awesome ways to see how beautiful are the patterns, textures and forms created using the water. They have been projected because of the reflection of light on different surfaces, and caused by severals frequencies of sound. See more;

Soundcube by Bernhard Leitner

I really liked this sketches from one of the first sound projects called  Soundcube, made in 1969 by Bernhard Leitner. See more;