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colour, language,
time and possibility

as interconnected fields
of artistic research

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, transcoding

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installations
available, archive, in progress

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public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

painting, writing, calculating, and transcoding

as artistic practices

that explore colour, language, time, and possibility.

# signals
# information
# codes
# symbols


exploring the limits of signs
translating one language into another

modernTimes, sign of a time

2017

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang
Size: variable
Technique: analogue clock, digital clock

abstract

The juxtaposition of the iconic shapes of clocks reveals their symbolic value as signs of time.
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transcoding:

transcoding:

format

inside

format

outside

text

When in 1340 Jacombo Dondi gave the clock it's form, he shaped more than a visualisation of time: he created an image of the world. With its circular and cyclic finitude, it represents the universe as a mechanism and establishes one of the strongest icons of the Renaissance world. In 1970, the digital clock replaces the watch hand and its dial with a linear display. By placing the analogue and the digital clock next to each other, the artwork ‘Modern Times’ creates a tautology of the notion of time with their corresponding circular and linear world view.

TransCoding: daily functional object to icons of time, it's time

history

2017 ___ TIME, Socièté, Brussels 

2018 ___ TIME, Bastide Projets, Marseille 

2019 ___ IF THEN ELSE, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City

collection

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artwork by the Belgian art-studio LAb[au] dealing with the transcoding of signs, symboles, codes from one media into another

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