Intermedial sculpture, part of the cycle Infinite Screen
Digital animation, modules of living cells on screens, 2018/19
The work can be seen in the foyer of the Ars Electronica Center!
Our digital age is constantly creating floods of information and a confusing mass of images and automated processes of artificial intelligence, which fill up every free moment and create substitutes for every sort of desire.
Infinite Light Column is reflecting this situation through a multidimensional approach. In contrast to the horizontal flow of information and reading, this intermedial sculpture materializes a vertical path of light upwards: a cell strand of an imaginary matrix, an endless composition in the form of a column of giant light cell modules. Each single module of the Infinite Light Column is formed by an autonomous screen, flooded with light. The flooding process is observed and composed by the artists in an extreme slow-down of fluctuation and vibration. These artificial individual impulses emerge from total darkness, show the glares of color and light and culminate in white flashes that annihilate all information. White appears in this artwork as an overexposure, a simultaneity of all possible information and waves.
Project Credits:
- Creation and production: AROTIN & SERGHEI Contemporary Art
- Cooperation partners: Impressions Arts Festival Vernon-Giverny, Mikhail Rudy, Kunsthalle Wien, Yury Revich, Belfry, Jean-Philippe Julia, Eric et Caroline Freymond, Espace Muraille Geneva, Gallery W&K Vienna-New York
- Infinite Screen is an art project by AROTIN & SERGHEI
- developed in cooperation with Klangforum Wien, La Biennale di Venezia, Ars Electronica, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and Fondation Beyeler.
