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colour, language,
time and possibility

as interconnected fields
of artistic research

painting, writing, calculating, and transcoding

as artistic practices

that explore colour, language, time, and possibility.

# language
# protocols
# lexicons, libraries, archives
# scripts

exploring the limits of language
writing between sense and nonsense

# monochrome

# chronochromy

# invisible spectra 

# material transformation
 

exploring the limits of the visible
painting the invisible

Lexicon

Lexicon

started in 2017

Filling the white page becomes a form of writing. One chapter after another, the work develops a lexicon of possible forms, revealing how complexity emerges from simple rules.

One of a Billion centuries

One of a Billion centuries

started in 2017

One century of forms extracted from a billion possible centuries. Each page records a day of randomly generated combinations; 365 pages form a year, while 100 books compose a century of possibilities.

if then else

if then else

started in 2017

Detached from its algorithmic function, a true-or-false statement becomes an unstable proposition, undermining the production of fixed meaning.

s:n-notations

s:n-notations

started in 2017

Notating accidental letter fragments falling from the mechanism of the installation Signal to Noise, the works trace the moment where meaning dissolves into noise and noise begins to produce its own meaning.

One of a Billion Days, Weeks..

One of a Billion Days, Weeks..

started in 2017

Time becomes a space of possible forms. Through the combinatorial logic of a 16-segment display, the work unfolds fragments of an almost inexhaustible universe of possibilities.

xxx xxx xxx xxx

xxx xxx xxx xxx

started in 2017

A 12-letter word may appear in an instant — or never. Randomly recombining the alphabet, the work stages language as an encounter between prediction, chance and time.

xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx

started in 2017

By randomly permuting the 26 letters of the alphabet, it can take 1 second or an infinit amount of time to produce a 12-letter word. The display is initialized at t

__ see also : installations // writing


__ What God hath wrought ?!
__ Signal To Noise
__ Oh my God, extended
__ xxxx xxxx letterbox

__ see also integrations // wrinting

__ PI
__ XXXX XXXX, Heidenheim Stadtbibliothek, Germany
__ Kontexte, crossover Loredana Marchi, Brussels, Belgium
__ yes,no-perhaps, Hager Stiftung, Blieskastel, Germany
__ 365, Quai 10 and La Vigie, Charleroi, Belgium
__ Zäit Wuert, Casino, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
__ 365, De Hoorn, Leuven, Belgium
__ Palimpsest, Wijkpark De Porre, Ghent, Belgium 

artworks by the Belgian art studio LAb[au] divided in four sections: writing, painting, calculating, transcoding all rooted in conceptual, digital, and concrete art

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