Sound&light installation

Artificiel: Impacts

Kino Šiška

 

Being among the events that mark a yearly anniversary of Kino Šiška, this project is an experiment in the visualisation of electrical current. The living sculptural installation includes Tesla coils fixed between glass planes which, at the presence of the viewer, activate sound and lighting signals of different intensities and rhythmical accents. Tesla coils have been frequently used in art; this one, created by Alexandre Burton, a member of the Canadian collective Artificiel, is based on the use of plasma as a medium controlled by special software. Irregular, sublimely attractive electrical pictures are generated by electricity in the installation delving into the question of wireless transmission of electrical current.

 

Artificiel is an artistic collective, or studio, based in France and dedicated to the creation of art works by means of digital technologies. Their works normally contain elements of sound and moving images, and they assume different shapes and forms: installations, performances, shows, and in-situ interventions. They create complex works evading the aesthetical outlook of the surface. Instead, they stress structural aspects of technology and substance, with the aim to expose sensibility based on objective given facts of individual technological phenomena.

 

The exhibition will be opened daily from noon to 11 pm. /until 29 September/

 

Coproduced by Kino Šiška. The exhibition is co-financed by Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.