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  • bug[lab]02 -
    The installation gathers a group of 10 robotic dogs in which some punctual and random bugs emerge (this is almost a pleonasm) in order to ironically illustrate the potential consequences of some functional problems in the system. It consists of
  • Nevel -
    A matrix of nine pivoting walls forms a labyrinth whose architecture continuously changes. A sequence of different compositions creates choreography of spaces flowing into one another. It is an auto choreographic space to wander and get lost in,
  • Rope
    A rope slowly curls around a chair, caressing it carefully. As the speed increases, the torsion builds up and the rope becomes a strangling snake approaching it's pray and eventually the chair is violently tossed around. Although a computer
  • Transporter -
    2 conveyor belts of about 13m long are set up next to each other and running in opposite directions. People can lay down on them to be transported very slowly. Hidden under the surface an invisible mechanism produces a subtle yet intense tactile
  • Boreas -
    A matrix of sixty-four tubes is spread out equally over the room. These tubes bend over extremely slowly as if a slow motion wind were touching them. Leaning into one another they reach out to the visitors like the tentacles of a giant snail. The
  • Mirror -
    A dark room with a large vibrating mirror deforms the reflection of the visitor. (The installation is to be visited individually.) At first the vibrations are so subtle that you might wonder if it are your own eyes that are having trouble to focus.
  • dog[lab]01 -
    In this experimental space, seven little chimerical robots are evolving, some animals which have the general morphology of a dog but some have bovine coats provided with horns (mad cow disease?), pork skin (xenotransplantation? unless it’s a cross
  • Conclusive Evidence -
    Conclusive Evidence is the title of one of Vladimir Nabokov's novels, which deals with his experience of emigration. In the Russian version, which appeared a few years later, the same novel was called Other Shores. This play on the titles is all the
  • The installation ensemble, «The Edison Effect» connects the Ages of Mechanical, Electronic, and Digital Audio-Technologies. Different interactive systems probe the acoustic inscriptions of vinyl discs, and other objects, with the help of laser beams
  • Romeo to Tripoli -
    Based on a hydraulic microphone and spark gap transmitter devised by Q.Majorana and G. Vanni in 1905. A stream of vitriolic acid, modulated by sound waves, controlled the flow of electricity to the transmitter and used to make the very first long