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Through the permutation of the five research fields:

colour, time, signal, language and possibility

an interconnected field of conceptual relations emerges:

 

COLOUR | TIME , TIME | SIGNAL 
POSSIBLE | LANGUAGE , LANGUAGE | TIME

 

are among the fundamental axes of LAb[au]’s artistic research.

 

linguistic monochromes
colour archives
colour etymologies

colour taxonomies
temporal pigments

invisible signals, visible colours
...

colour as a field of knowledge


duration paintings
time words
visual palimpsests
temporal lexica
entropies

signals from another time
...
time as a material 

 

extended perception
sensing through data
possible dimensions of reality
speculative meanings
…
signals between the visible and the invisible
between established meanings and new senses

 

displayed glyphs

translated signals
possible language systems
emergent lexicons
saturated signs

...

 

language between code and meaning

 

probable combinations
possible readings
stochastic landscapes
random orders
...


emergent spaces of meaning

 

a cartography of


interconnected research fields
and relations yet to emerge

ENTROPY *lib

Two photocopy sequences from entropy*.lib by LAb[au], showing white pages progressively darkening to black through repeated copying.

The sequence begins with a simple rule: a blank white page is photocopied. Each copy becomes the original for the next, and the operation is repeated until the page turns completely black. The number of iterations varies with each machine and execution, making each sequence unique.

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Presented together as a single grid, the successive pages reveal the changing chromatic states, making duration and entropy visible. Time thereby becomes tangible through the sequential saturation of the page. The machine’s mechanical noise and copying errors are recorded as emptiness gradually condenses into black. Each chain of pages forms a chapter in an ever-growing library—the lib* of errors—collecting traces of accumulation, densification and change.

LIST OF RELATED PROJECTS

Entropy, lib*

tonerchromeS
Cu-Pb Diaries

CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE

Sequential Blackening → Saturated Traces → Fading Memory

LIST OF RELATED KEYWORDS

Protocols and Operations # Mechanical Reproduction # Iterations # Repetitions # Sequences # Raster # Layered Accumulation # Entropic Saturation # Gradual Erasure # Step-by-Step Disappearance # Fading Memory

 

Chromatic Sequences: successive material states made simultaneously visible

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Temporal Awareness: sensing instants, durations and sequences

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Syntax of time: time experienced through language

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Possible temporalities: stochastic operations expanding the construct of time

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Temporal superpositions: different scales of time rendered perceptible through their coexistence​

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Temporal Awareness: sensing instants, durations and sequences - soon

Syntax of time: time experienced through language - soon

Possible temporalities: stochastic operations expanding the

construct of time - soon

Temporal superpositions: different scales of time rendered perceptible through their coexistence - soon

TIME | COLOUR

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