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Installation
2006

Synopsis

Most of the time, the Babel Machine does nothing. It stands quiet in a corner; a dot matrix printer from the eighties parked comfortably on a pedestal, the surrounding floor covered with tractor feed printer paper. Then, suddenly, the beast within awakens in an aggressive burst of output. It prints about a page length and returns to its contemplative silence.

The fresh print out seems at first incomprehensible, but in a second glance it becomes much more intricate. It's almost like a peek into the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic. In the third reading it starts to almost make sense, it is about something... but what? I recognize this - there was something about this in the paper this morning!

Installation, mixed media
2006

This installation deals with matters of superficiality and disillusionment. The room of the installation is made inaccessible with a plastic canvas strapped diagonally across the room, from knee level by the entrence to above head height in the opposite corner. The white plastic canvas and black straps are of rustique character for outdoor use. Since the spectator is blocked from entering the space, he is restricted to peeking from the door. The room has no illumination but for a scene back projected on the canvas. Due to the perspective distortion, it is not immediately obvious what is projected. After a while, the spectator identifies the projection as an image of a video projector and cables leading toward him. The colour of the projection and the entire room is slowly pulsating (in approximately 20-30 second cycles) from discreet blue to a greenish tint. By kneeling and peeking under the canvas, the spectator can see the very same video projector that is being projected standing propped up towards the opposite wall. The cables are connected to a video camera on the other side of the room. There is no other light source than the light from the video projector. It is the projector that illuminates the entire scene including itself, making it visible for the camera. The pulsation in colours is the effect of the video camera and the video projector trying to compensate each other in white balance. What is shown is what there is. There is nothing more going on.

installation, mixed media
2005

Synopsis

Spatio-temporal makes a cross cut into the properties of presence and motion in space and time.

A three dimensional space (with people and objects in static and in motion) is captured over time with a digital camera. The room and everything static is digitally removed and thus leaving only visual residues of that in motion during this time of capture. The residues of motion are abstracted further and projected into a second part of the exhibition space.

In the documentation the camera covered the bar- and lounge area of the event where a more or less constant flow of dynamic motion was taking place all through the event. The piece was shown in a part of the exhibition space not visible from the lounge area and it was back-projected onto paper mounted on glass, giving the projection a material presence.