Magnet
dal 9/5/2008 al 5/7/2008
Segnalato da
9/5/2008
Magnet
ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Visual arts have always endeavored to make the invisible visible. The Danish light and media artist Thorbjorn Lausten has been devoted for several years to the visualization of scientific data in the context of art, science, and media. In his current project he works together with the University of Tromso and the Danish Meteorological Institute. These institutions allow him direct, real-time access to geomagnetic and meteorological readings.
Curated by Andreas F. Beitin
Visual arts have always endeavored to make the invisible visible. The Danish light and media artist Thorbjørn Lausten has been devoted for several years to the visualization of scientific data in the context of art, science, and media. In his current project "MAGNET," he works together with the University of Tromsø and the Danish Meteorological Institute. These institutions allow him direct, real-time access to geomagnetic and meteorological readings. Lausten processes these data artistically and makes them visible by means of projections that present a type of interface between the original energy and the information gained from it. The various data sources as well as their algorithmic changes provide a wide range of visual variations.
Lausten's illustrations of digital readings become concrete "color films," which will be presented interactively and simultaneously at three exhibition sites (ZKM, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, and Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg) and additionally, can be followed online via www.meteomag.dk
A catalogue will be published for the three exhibitions: Morten Søndergaard and Peter Weibel (eds.) "MAGNET", ca. 120 pages, 100 illustrations, with texts by Hartmut Böhme, Thorbjørn Lausten, Peter Lunenfeld, Morten Søndergaard, Frederik Stjernfield, and Peter Weibel.
Opening: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7 p.m.
ZKM_Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstrasse 19 - Karlsruhe