Bright Lights, Big Space
September 8, 2016 7:27 PM Subscribe
DEEP WEB - kinetic audiovisual installation The generative, luminous architectural structure weaves 175 motorized spheres and 12 high power laser systems into a 25 meter wide and 10 meter high super-structure, bringing to life a luminous analogy to the nodes and connections of digital networks. Moving up and down, and choreographed and synchronized to an original multi-channel musical score by Robert Henke, the spheres are illuminated by blasts of colourful laser beams resulting in three-dimensional sculptural light drawings and arrangements in cavernous darkness.
Huh. So it's a rave where everyone just quietly stands and appreciatively nods their heads at the carefully choreographed laser show...
posted by sysinfo at 8:53 PM on September 8, 2016
posted by sysinfo at 8:53 PM on September 8, 2016
... while holding up their phones to video the scene.
posted by njohnson23 at 8:55 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by njohnson23 at 8:55 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
How I'd love to experience that in person.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:40 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:40 PM on September 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Huh. So it's a rave where everyone just quietly stands and appreciatively nods their heads at the carefully choreographed laser show...
When you're on that many drugs, sometimes it takes all of your energy and focus merely to nod appreciatively.
posted by el io at 12:30 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
When you're on that many drugs, sometimes it takes all of your energy and focus merely to nod appreciatively.
posted by el io at 12:30 AM on September 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
I watched this night, and lemme just say that I picked the right day to start smoking weed again. So many of my favorite things in one place: installation art; minimalist technofetishism; experimental / electronic / ambient music; cool feats of engineering. Favorited hard.
(Pretty much everything Robert Henke touches is cool. I usually don't care for clinical / chinstrokey laptop electronic music, but he has this uncanny knack to breathe life and color into a swarm of digital clicks and pops and sine waves.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 6:11 AM on September 9, 2016
(Pretty much everything Robert Henke touches is cool. I usually don't care for clinical / chinstrokey laptop electronic music, but he has this uncanny knack to breathe life and color into a swarm of digital clicks and pops and sine waves.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 6:11 AM on September 9, 2016
Some, what you might call 'art sculptures', are made for the purpose of photography or filmography/videography. In other words, the final 'product' for the artist is the photo or video.
Here is an art installation where the experience of enjoyment comes from the audio and video experience. The resulting iPhone videos extend the experience--of this I have no doubt. I wish I was there.
posted by xtian at 10:31 AM on September 10, 2016
Here is an art installation where the experience of enjoyment comes from the audio and video experience. The resulting iPhone videos extend the experience--of this I have no doubt. I wish I was there.
posted by xtian at 10:31 AM on September 10, 2016
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Also, I've listened to a lot of music by Robert Henke (Monolake), and this is far and away the Bladerunneriest. A+
posted by aubilenon at 8:21 PM on September 8, 2016