»SWARM«
Light Box

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Random International >
»SWARM«, 2010
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carpenters workshop gallery / Copyright © 1999-2010, rAndom international and operation:Schoener Ltd All rights reservedhttp://www.random-international.com/projects/
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Info: LEDs, polished brass, custom software, custom electronics, corian top box, microphones, computer dim: 81cm by 81cm per cube Type: light installation Date: July 2010www.F11Collective.com
Design Miami ⁄ Basel
14-19 ⁄ June 2010
Hall 5, Mezzanine Level, Messe Basel, Switzerland
VIP Opening 14 ⁄June 2010
By invitation only
rAndom International are delighted to announce their Designer of the Future award exhibition at this year’s Design Miami / Art Basel. The exhibition focuses on two of rAndom’s new works. ‘Swarm Light’, an experimental light installation with a real ‘collective consciousness’, subtly reacts to the viewer’s audible presence.
‚Self Portrait‘ (working title) is the archetypal blank canvas that engages you, the spectator, with a large-scale, ephemeral representation of yourself. All evidence of the encounter exists only in the moment of interaction between you, the viewer, and the object. Gradually, moment and image fade away, never to be repeated.
In addition to these new works, on the ground floor rAndom will be presenting ‚You Fade to Light‘ with the Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The installation translates the viewer’s presence from a mirror image into light, encouraging a physical / kinesthetic engagement with light itself.
rAndom will take part in the Designer of the Future talks with Cedric Morisset on Thursday, June 17, from 5.50PM at the Mezzanine Level in Halle 5.
Info: LEDs, polished brass, custom software, custom electronics, corian top box, microphones, computer dim: 81cm by 81cm per cube Type: light installation Date: July 2010
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Descriptions & Essays
carpenters workshop gallery is proud to present a solo show by random international. following the success of random international's inclusion in Decode Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, this much anticipated show presents their three latest works: SWARM, Self-portrait and Triptych.
Deemed as the pioneers of a performative new media who were awarded the accolade of designer of the future at design miami basel 2010, this london / berlin based trio continue to focus their work around behaviour, performance, participation and interactivity, furthering the discourse and melting the boundaries between contemporany performance art and installation.
random international works challenge convention through shifting the role of the controller to that of performer. the pieces play with the viewr, shifting from animate to inanimate, while employing elements of tension and surprise. these acts are crucial to understanding the dialogue present in random international's work. more than just signifiers of the new innovations in digital technology, these works continue to illuminate within our perceptions and experiences of light, our own behavioural responses and interactive spatial environtments thus fulfilling the very basic human need for sefl expression.
SWARM
SWARM is pioneering sound-reactive sculpture that compromises hanging LED's which react instinctively to noise and movement. the viewer is made aware of his own presence in close proximity to the work because of the dynamic reaction that is provoked from it. this swarm of lights moves, teasing the viewer, either by shying away or moving close in a dynamic fluid movement reminiscent of the behavioural conditions of complex insect groups. it isthe viewerwho unknowingly drives the work, his auditory presence is expressed through light and confronted with a swarm of lights that dart haphazardly from column to column: thus the viewer's stillness is ironically articulated by the fluid movement of the chandelier's light. the movement of lights inspires a sense of awe. magic and wonder as it questions our former notions of illumination and conceptual art practice. all at once the viewer is made conscious of three spaces: the physical immediate, the surrounding enrivon and the dreamscape which the work alludes to.
Literature
Beddard, Honor and Douglas Dodds. V and A Pattern: Digital Pioneers. London: V and A Publishing, 2009.
Onedotzero. Motion Blur 2: Multidimensional Moving Imagemakers. London, UK: Laurence King Publishing, 2009.
Catherine Mason. A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts
1950-1980. Norfolk, UK: JJG Publishing, 2008.
Onedotzero. Motion Blur: Graphic Moving Imagemakers Publishers. London, UK: Laurence King Publishers, 2006.
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