LIMINAL is an interactive installation that seeks to reify the boundary between present and past through a play of projected light. It employs a photographic process called slit-scan to spread out time in space. Its visual aspect stretches out time while spatiality is expressed via its audio component. Appearing as a glowing portal of light, the installation mirrors the interactor, albeit with a temporal distortion.
This manipulation of time acts as a visual metaphor – the present constantly replacing the past – which is inexorably shifted into the oblivion of white light. In a sense, the artwork emphasizes that light is the past – the twinkle we see in the night sky is but a manifestation of events that have already occurred.
Biography:
Louis-Philippe Rondeau (CA) develops devices that explore self-representation in a playful and unconventional manner. His research-creation approach reveals as much a search for simplicity of design for users, as an interest in the complexity of computer code and the execution of physical objects. While situating his research in historical photographic processes, Rondeau’s works with digital images – unlike analog photography – do not stand for reality.
