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»Tessel«, 2010 - 2010
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CreditsTessel is a collaboration between French composer and artist David Letellier and LAb[au].
Tessel is a co-production of the galleries MediaRuimte (Brussels) and Roger Tator (Lyon) realized with the financial support of Arcadi, Dicream and Commission des Arts Numériques de la Communauté Française de Belgique.
Technology
Installation Requirements / Space
The installation is constituted of a suspended and articulated topography of 4x2m, subdivided into forty triangular mirrors. Twelve triangles are fitted with motors and eight triangles are equipped with audio transducers, which transform the surface into a dynamic sonic space. A dialogue between space and sound is created as the surface slowly modifies its shape, our perception of it altered through continuously changing light and sound reflection.
Descriptions & Essays
Tessel is a kinetic installation investigating the perception of sound and space.
Its name is derived from 'tessellation', a term applied to the geometric subdivision of a surface into plane units, also known as 'tiling'. It also describes a software technique that allows calculation of renderings through the subdivision of surfaces into polygons. The term has its origin in the Latin word 'tessella', describing the square tiles used to make mosaics.
Tessellation has been applied throughout history from ancient to modern times, from two to n-dimensional configurations and merges science and art through mathematics. Here Tessel is based on the 'pinwheel pattern', a non-periodic tiling coined by mathematicians Charles Radin and John Conway, which allows the creation of an infinitely complex geometry constructed with a simple single 'seed': a right triangle. Here, the pinwheel pattern is transformed, folded and transposed to the third dimension.
The project inscribes itself within the art historical continuum, from Victor Vasarely's optical art to Buckminster Fuller's synergetics, while continuing the quest for processual beauty in the numeric realm.
Credits
Tessel is a collaboration between French composer and artist David Letellier and LAb[au].
Tessel is a co-production of the galleries MediaRuimte (Brussels) and Roger Tator (Lyon) realized with the financial support of Arcadi, Dicream and Commission des Arts Numériques de la Communauté Française de Belgique.
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Literature
Lieser, Wolf and [DAM] gallery Berlin and Cologne, ed. The World of Digital Art. Potsdam, DE: h.f.ullman publishing, 2010.
LAb[au]. »Algorithm and Light.« In Mediatecture, edited by Christoph Kronhagel. New York: Springer Verlag, 2010.
LAb[au]. Light, Colour, Sound (Luz, Color, Sonido). Barcelona, ES: Parramon Ediciones S.A., 2010.
Brook, Tony and Adrian Shaughnessy, ed. Supergraphics. London, UK: United Edition, 2010.
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a Multi-user Environment.« In Proceedings of VRML 99 - Fourth Symposium on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language, edited by , 93-98. New York: 1999.
Youngblood, Gene. »Metadesign.« Kunstforum International 98 (January/February 1989): 79.
Exhibitions & Events
2010
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