Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun’s finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.
The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?
Thomas Saraceno at Venice art-biennale 2009
Saraceno’s interest in architectural projects is part of the artist’s ongoing fascination with utopian theories and astronomical constellations. His concept of what constitutes an architectureal structure is admirably broad, and his new installation examines how the black widow’s gossamer filaments are able to suspend extreme weights through the use of complex geometry.
Makers & Spectators…
“Makers & Spectators” is an exhibition that examins human perception and the way we look at things. It takes place in the MU, a space for contemporary art and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands and was developed by Christien Meindertsma, a designer from Rotterdam.
The overall installation is about six by six meters large and the robot is build mainly out of Lego parts. Basically beeing a toy for children, both the construction and the programming have been pushed so far that it becomes capable of things way beyond it was ment for.Christien Meindertsma, a designer from Rotterdam.
In cooperation with her I’ve built an istallation that reproduces the way we look. An eyetracker records the movement of the visitor’s eyes. A robot hanging from the ceiling on top of a large pile of paper makes one dot for every point the visitor has been looking at. This results in large scale images showing how the same objects have been seen differently.
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