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colour, language,
time and possibility

as interconnected fields
of artistic research

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, transcoding

installations
available, archive, in progress

public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

public art conceived as :
 

# Urban Signs
# Displays of Emergence
# Sensing Architectures

# Generative Structures

architectural integrations:
 

# transitional spaces
# responsive places
# generative atmospheres

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Stadtbibliothek Heidenheim, Germany

2024

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock based on a project developed with Els Vermang in 2019

custom tailored electronics and display, alumiunum case, lexan diffuser

absract

The installation is a light sign of eight letters, centrally situated in the entrance hall of the Heidenheim’s public library in Germany, and visible through the entrance windows from the public space, day and night. The words displayed are depending on a process that randomly generates one letter after another, and simultaneously checks the existence of their respective combinations in a dictionary. If not existing, the process restarts from scratch until a word is found. The average time needed to generate an eight letter word is around four hours, theoretically between one second and infinity. This writing process replaces the traditional narrative with a logical system leading to a playful approach on the edge of sense and nonsense. The work inscribes itself in the tradition of concrete poetry, pointing to an agnostic vision that involves the viewer’s interpretation and associations.

format
The artwork is an edition of 3, built for outside use
credits
special thanks to:
Marco Hompes, director of the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
Thomas Jentsch, Stadtbibliothek Heidenheim
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history

before its aquisation the work has been shown in: 


2021 --- X, group show

              Frac des Pays de la Loire, curatorship Claude Closky


since then the edition two is shown:


2024 --- writing, painting, calculating, transcoding, solo-show

              DAN Galeria, Sao Paulo 

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