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colour, language, signal
time and possibility


as interconnected fields
of artistic research

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, sensing, transcoding

installations
available, archive, in progress

public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

painting, writing, calculating, sensing, and transcoding

as artistic practices

exploring the intersections of
colour, time, signal, 
language, and possibility

# electromagnetic waves
# frequencies
# fields
# radiation

exploring the limits of perception
sensing the imperceptible

# monochrome

# chronochromy

# invisible spectra 

# material transformation
 

exploring the limits of the visible
painting the invisible

cover images of Artworks  by LAb[au] dealing with : writing

Hz Chromes

2016

to be done

cover images of Artworks  by LAb[au] dealing with : writing

EOD (electric organ discharge) 02

2009

to be done

SENSING WORKS — SELECTED FROM PUBLIC ARTWORKS IN PROGRESS

Source of Uncertainty

2028

Capturing Cosmic rays and transcribing these data into sound, text and music diffused in different parts of the building - to listen to these messengers from an other time and space.

fLUX, music for trainstations

completion 2025

92 arches at Toronto’s Union Station transcribe the movement of passers-by (the flow) into evolving patterns of light, (lux) and a music for trainstation, based on a pentatonic scale.

listen to the Universe

2026

A landmark antenna atop a former telecom tower transcodes cosmic noise into words scrolling across surrounding displays, inviting citizens to look toward the stars and let their imagination wander.

SENSING WORKS — SELECTED FROM PUBLIC ARTWORKS

SiloScope

2014

The 20 m high hyperboloid is a sound-reactive light sculpture located on the banks of the Seine in Vitry-sur-Seine. Through triangulated microphones, it detects the direction and speed of sounds from the urban environment, translating these data into dynamic light patterns.

SENSING WORKS — SELECTED FROM THE AVAILABLE NSTALLATIONS

1600 Years of Light *field

2019

A yellow monochrome made of uranium ore slowly turns black. Its continuous emission of energy transforms colour into a material process, a reality unfolding in time.

Oh My God

2018

The artwork captures cosmic rays and transforms these messengers of another time way before our existence into light, sound and text. In this way the artwork connects us to the scale of space and time by making the invisible visible.
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SENSING WORKS — SELECTED FROM THE INSTALLATION ARCHIVE

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