Poetics of nature in space inspired by life of cicada. This installation is about Light, which is being produced by artificial mechanics and digital materials together with natural phenomenon.
Cicadas are insects living in warm climates, from known its transparent wings and high pitched buzzing. Cicadas glow up underground as nymphs for most of their lives for many years, until the moment of the last chrysalis.
One summer day, the nymphs come out from the soil and climb to a branch to perform its dramatic metamorphosis. They molt and emerge as adults with wet transparent greenish wings. the wings wrinkles stretch and wait for the first fly , in that moment they are finally appealed in light.
This installation represents ‘Light imagination in the darkness‘: Jean-Henri Fabre about Cicada nymphs: “The grub (nymphs) are much paler in color than those which I catch after they emerge (from the earth). Its big eyes in particular are whitish, cloudy, squinting and apparently of little use of for seeing.”
- Exhibition -
6 August -19 September 2010
Solo Exhibition in Medialab Enschede, The Netherlands
25-28 February 2010
Exhibitio sonicacts XIII at Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam
15- 25 October 2009
Exibition E-pulsefestiva in Breda
In the white box with one side wall vertical curve shaped, the light from two LCD projectors hit to the black pond on the floor, just end of the curve, and reflect onto the curve wall. The projected light shows layers of spectrum light which changes the shapes characteristically.
This movement is oriented by 24 motors (Servos) under the pond. The black plastic sheet covers the pond and the motors create constantly different geometries on the surface of pond. This makes many different angles of reflection light, organic shape and changes it’s form. The principle is the light you see is on the wall, but you see the layers of light that gives a depth in the space. So that the actual feeling in the space is more opened than it is.
In the installation space, the sound to be heard is two different kinds of sound, one is from the pond, 24 motors which sound like rubbing wings, the other is sound of actual cicada, the speakers are placed under the black sheet in the pond that the sound travel through the vertical curve, the sound was recoded in Japan contains several types of cicadas. (Some people believed the cicada sound were computer generated. I realized that not so many people in Europe heard sound of cicada!)
Installation “ Light work #6: In soil”
This installation can divide into three parts. One, light source – digital projector Two, a pond –transition of light Three, a vertical curved wall – screen.
In a white box, the light source comes from above with two digital video projectors, Pointing to the pond. A half circle pond is installed on the floor in middle of the space, covered with a dark sheet. There are 24 servo motors underneath, creating the geometrics on the surface of pond, the light reflects different directions into the screen. Then, the transformed light appears with insect like movement. A curved wall begins from the floor to the ceiling vertically. This non-corner long surface creates a dynamics of light in the whole space.
The light of this installation has different colors, in the center of wall more greenish light. The sheet reflects more green light than others. When the light angle into the dark sheet becomes sharp, more light colors reflect, which are more original colors from an image. Wider the light spreads, more specter colors appears. This phenomenon is simply caused the angle of reflection, relation of the black sheets as the reflection surface and the vertical curve
The brain of this installation is one computer programmed by MAX MSP / Jitter, which controls whole system, sending separate images to projectors, controlling each motor with independent movement and sound. The Sound which are used for the installation is recoded in Japan, from different kinds of cicada. Somewhat they sound digital processed sound.
The essence of this installation is ‘invisibility’. The abstraction offers more imagination and questions. The projection images are macro scans of real organic object, such as fallen leaves and texts from ancient Japanese short poem from Man-yo-syu. The images are projected onto the surface of the pond, however they are almost invisible as well as the motors under the dark sheet.
