A sculpture in the form of a console composed of four displays arranged horizontally. A program simulates a vectorial field in which the particles flow according to the evolution of the field’s density. The initial interaction that unfolds in the field provokes the emergence of totally unforeseen behavior among the particles.
LAb[au] is a Belgian artist collective founded in 1995 by Els Vermang, Jérôme Decock and Manuel Abendroth. The group’s areas of interest range beyond architecture and urbanism (present in the abbreviated name) to also involve software art and VJing. Besides this, they hold symposiums and workshops with important talents such as Lev Manovich, Marcos Novak and Stanza.
Three sculptures made of translucent polymer elaborated based on a genetic algorithm. When the distinct blocks thus constructed are brought together they recall Malevich’s architectural objects. The pedestal of each sculpture emits excerpts re-elaborated from “The White Doe,” a Scandinavian folklore song dating from remote times.
Nicolas Reeves is an architect with a degree from the University of Montreal, Canada. He is currently a professor in the Department of Design at the University of Quebec, in Montreal, and heads the NXI Gestatio, a laboratory for research and creation in computer science, architecture and design.
Gaza Strip is an installation that by means of bio-aesthetic elements develops a critical judgment about the situation in the Middle East. The blood of Palestinians and Jews abandons the panorama perpetrated by terrorists and Jewish colonists of occupied territory to be mixed in an improvised “donation center”.
José Wagner Garcia is an architect, media artist, and researcher associated to the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, CAVS, and media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, in the United States. He works in the sector of steel architecture and relations between art and live systems. He has a Master’s Degree from MIT and his dissertation was on live systems, and is currently developing a PhD project about evolutionary aesthetics at the Catholic Pontific University in Sao Paulo, in the communication and semiotics program. He has participated in the main events connected to art-communication and the interaction between art, science and technology that have taken place in Brazil.
A sculpture in the form of a console composed of four displays arranged horizontally. A program simulates a vectorial field in which the particles flow according to the evolution of the field’s density. The initial interaction that unfolds in the field provokes the emergence of totally unforeseen behavior among the particles.