Facade Life
Installation monumentale active sur façade
Création : 2007
Facade Life #1 at iMAL (Bruxelles) - oct07
Synopsis
Facade Life est une installation monumentale active sur façade.
Dans Facade Life, une forme lumineuse abstraite circule indéfiniment sur une façade, en relation avec ses éléments architecturaux. Elle glisse sur les bords, heurte les cadres des fenêtres, rebondit sur les montants des portes, coule dans espaces disponibles... Elle l'habite. Des algorithmes de vie artificielle et des équations physiques recréent le comportement d'un fauve abstrait en cage : corps nerveux libre mais enfermé.
Facade Life est issue d'un principe artistique dans lequel des façades existantes sont réinterprétées par des formes dynamiques programmées, pour mettre en place une dialectique entre la réalité physique et un niveau de réalité parallèle.
In Situ
Les installations Facade Life sont des installations in situ, éphémères ou pérennes, mais toujours uniques. En extérieur, elles sont forcément nocturnes uniquement, mais en intérieur elles peuvent être permanentes. Elles peuvent être monumentales (taille d'un bâtiment, plusieurs façades, etc..) ou de la taille d'une pièce.
Press
Antoine Schmitt brought the adjacent façade to life in his quite appropriately named project Façade Life #1. White dots bounced precisely around the windows and other structures and with minimal means succeeded in adding another two-dimensional layer to what was built from stone in 1920. Sasha on We-make-money-not-art - oct07
(...) The projection consists of an artificial ‘animal’ made out of moving light particles, which responds to the architectural borders of the facade such as doors and windows (...) in Digital Experience blog - sept08
Exhibitions
• oct07 Création : Facade Life #1 at iMal,
Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Bruxelles (BE), thanks
to Yves Bernard
• 12sept08>5nov08: 5th
Media Art Festival of Seoul (Korea) - Seoul Museum entrance facade
• 26sept08>27sept08 : Ososphère
(Strasbourg, FR)
• 16may09>14jun09 : Festival
de l'Affiche de Chaumont (FR)
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Facade Life
Monumental active installation on facade
Creation : 2007
Facade Life #1 at iMAL (Bruxelles) - oct07
Synopsis
Facade Life is a monumental active installation on facade.
In Facade Life, an abstract visual shape endlessly paces on a facade, in relationship to its architectural elements. It slides on the borders, hits the window frames, bounces on the door sides, circulates in the available spaces. It inhabits it. Algorithms of artificial life and physical equations recreate the behavior of an abstract wild feline in a cage : a nervous body, free but confined.
Facade Life is issued from an artistic principle where existing facades are re-interpreted by programmed dynamics shapes, to initiate a dialectics between physical reality and a parallel level of reality.
Site-Specific
The Facade Life installations are site-specific installations, ephemeral or persistent, but always unique. Outside, they function only at night, but inside they can be permanent. They can be monumental (size of a building, more than one façade, ...) or the size of a room.
Press
Antoine Schmitt brought the adjacent façade to life in his quite appropriately named project Façade Life #1. White dots bounced precisely around the windows and other structures and with minimal means succeeded in adding another two-dimensional layer to what was built from stone in 1920. Sasha on We-make-money-not-art - oct07
(...) The projection consists of an artificial ‘animal’ made out of moving light particles, which responds to the architectural borders of the facade such as doors and windows (...) in Digital Experience blog - sept08
Exhibitions
• oct07 Premiere : Facade Life #1 at iMal,
Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Bruxelles (BE), thanks
to Yves Bernard
• 12sept08>5nov08: 5th
Media Art Festival of Seoul (Korea) - Seoul Museum entrance facade
• 26sept08>27sept08 : Ososphère
(Strasbourg, FR)
• 16may09>14jun09 : Festival
de l'Affiche de Chaumont (FR)
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