»Box I/II« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Ruth Schnell; 2 video sculptures
Per Box: 20 x 35 x 100 cm
Two boxes, lacquered steel, per box: five colour monitors, video player, videotape (computer animation)
In co-production with Gudrun Bielz
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Ruth Schnell >
»Box I/II«, 1990 - 1990
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In co-production with Gudrun Bielzhttps://ruthschnell.org/en/works/box-i-und-ii/
Technology
Hardware
10 colour monitors, video player, videotapeInstallation Requirements / Space
Dimensions per box: 20 x 35 x 100 cmMaterial
Two boxes, lacquered steel, per box: five colour monitors, video player, videotape (computer animation)
Descriptions & Essays
Ruth Schnell 20-06-2021
Two video sculptures
The sculpture as a material shell (housing) around the immaterial image in the material body (monitor) or:
The sculpture as a core, permeated by the immaterial image. The video images radiate from the inside of the sculpture, becoming visible through five viewing slits. The video image is divided into five image stripes that optically compose a whole picture. These fractional images rhythmically shift apart in a time delay and then return to the starting point (enclosed image). The delay gives the impression of a "chaotic" image that moves back and forth to find the resting position (order, balance, the enclosed image).
Installation in the Tiroler Landesmuseum: opposite a Gothic winged altar (colours: red, green, blue), originally the closed "picture window" on working days, the open window on public holidays. The boxes are closed and open at the same time. The colours of the video are RGB – red, green and blue.
Ruth Schnell: Box I/II, 20-06-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art Two video sculptures
The sculpture as a material shell (housing) around the immaterial image in the material body (monitor) or:
The sculpture as a core, permeated by the immaterial image. The video images radiate from the inside of the sculpture, becoming visible through five viewing slits. The video image is divided into five image stripes that optically compose a whole picture. These fractional images rhythmically shift apart in a time delay and then return to the starting point (enclosed image). The delay gives the impression of a "chaotic" image that moves back and forth to find the resting position (order, balance, the enclosed image).
Installation in the Tiroler Landesmuseum: opposite a Gothic winged altar (colours: red, green, blue), originally the closed "picture window" on working days, the open window on public holidays. The boxes are closed and open at the same time. The colours of the video are RGB – red, green and blue.
Ruth Schnell 20-06-2021
"BOX I + II, 1990, two installed video sculptures by artist duo BIELZ/SCHNELL: a cold and distant-looking metal case with five narrow viewing slits, in which video images appear from the inside. Between themselves and in connection with the rest there seem to be characters or simple geometrical forms in the colours red, blue and green, which disappear at certain intervals to emerge again elsewhere, forming their own system of signs within the sculpture, including the image enclosed in its content, similar to the Gothic winged altar, revealed only in a partial format. The apparent disorder and randomness emerge only during closer inspection as a logical sequence, as dialectics of perception and imagination, part of the picture and the overall picture and of the material nature and the immaterial imaginativeness."
Günther Dankl, in: 1370/72-1990: Eine künstlerische Begegnung [1270/72-1990: an artistic encounter]
Ruth Schnell: Box I/II, 20-06-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art "BOX I + II, 1990, two installed video sculptures by artist duo BIELZ/SCHNELL: a cold and distant-looking metal case with five narrow viewing slits, in which video images appear from the inside. Between themselves and in connection with the rest there seem to be characters or simple geometrical forms in the colours red, blue and green, which disappear at certain intervals to emerge again elsewhere, forming their own system of signs within the sculpture, including the image enclosed in its content, similar to the Gothic winged altar, revealed only in a partial format. The apparent disorder and randomness emerge only during closer inspection as a logical sequence, as dialectics of perception and imagination, part of the picture and the overall picture and of the material nature and the immaterial imaginativeness."
Günther Dankl, in: 1370/72-1990: Eine künstlerische Begegnung [1270/72-1990: an artistic encounter]
Literature
Bogner, Dieter, ed. Im Licht des Monitors, Videoband-Katalog. Horn: Kunstverein Horn, 1990.
Günther, Dankl. »1370/72-1990: Eine künstlerische Begegnung.« In Video 4, edited by Ferdinandeum Tirolean State Museum. Innsbruck: 1990.
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