http://www.vimeo.com/10269196The development of Plane Scape was driven by ideas of confronting the two dimensional nature of images with real 3D space in an installative setup, which was fully accessible by the audience. Instead of reproducing a 2D image on a flat screen, the image was projected into space.

This involved the construction of a screen grid structure made from elastic rubber bands, video projection and sound.

The video, showing changing configurations of white lines was projected through the dense grid of white elastic bands, which filled half of the exhibition space. The grid structure scattered the light into space, breaking up the geometrics of the video source into a sculpture of patterns of moving light clusters.

in collaboration with Jeroen Uyttendaele and Lyndsey Housden.

2009 / photographic installation

Images, just like plants, draw their existence from light

In ’Quanta of Light’, a process of appearing and disappearing is taking place. Over the course of several days, one single long exposure image is taken by a custom built camera, suspended from the ceiling of the exhibition space as an open construction.
A light sensitive ccd chip, moved over the image plane by two motors, is recording one pixel at a time, while a computer algorithm processes these image elements and puts them toghether in one resulting image. Each scan takes approximately six hours, and each new scan is overlayed (blended) with a successive one.

The process of growth is taking place on several levels; The image is is built up as a result of accumulated light over time. Using living plants as the object photographed, their phototropic reaction towards the light source (growing towards the light) becomes a metaphor of the process of ‚exposure’ itself. Not only the image is exposed, but also the plant is, and its growth gets inwritten in the image.

2008 / photographic installation

In Accessible Camera, the constituent parts of a photo camera (input, black box, capturing unit, and output) are rebuilt in form of a fully operational device over multiple rooms. Through a photographic lens, the light rays of the object photographed are focussed in the adjoing room, where a custom constructed scanner device captures the incoming light pixel by pixel. One room further, the final image is projected. The work anatomizes the construction of the photographic device and thus makes the process of image capturing transparent.

The scanning unit of the recording part of the camera mainly consists out of 2 stepper motors and a ccd video chip, which can be freely moved around on the image plane. While the motors move the chip physically over the projected image, the software is programmed in such a way that only one single pixel is used for the final image, which is built up over time, resulting in a long time exposure photograph of the scene in front of the lens over several hours.

Bi-pass is a responsive site-specific installation which explores the rhythm and dynamics of public spaces and their impact on the individual. Commissioned by the cultural administration of the city of The Hague, the installation was built specifically for The Hague City Hall, an enormous white atrium designed by architect Richard Meier.

Bi-pass took the form of a confined opaque passage of telephone booth-size, placed in the center of the atrium’s ground floor, continuously capturing real-time ambient sound and visual movement in its surroundings. These were digitally manipulated and projected within the passage, forming a micro-space in which a solitary audiovisual observation of the atrium could be experienced.

[text by Irad Lee]

video: Wolfgang Bittner
sound: Irad Lee