Dutch Design Fashion Architecture
juni 22, 2009
Press release:
The multidisciplinary work of Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde explores the dynamic shifts which tend to occur between architecture, people and e-culture. His interactive sculptures generate what Roosegaarde calls 'tactile high-tech,’ a unique situation which culminates in the fusion of visitor and (public) space.
Roosegaarde’s upcoming public installation for the 53rd Venice Biennale will mark the artist’s foray into new territory. Designed specifically for the occasion of the Biennale, Venus for Venice is a newly commissioned large-scale work comprising a 14 by 4 meter display that will overwhelm the historic Riva di Ca di Dio square with recurrent shifts in light, temporarily altering both the mood and landscape of the surrounding environment.
The LED screen is filled with a slow pulsating, bright yellow light. In this way a pulsating, abstract landscape of light arises; like a digital ‘sun’ or the planet ‘Venus’. The closer visitors stand at the screen, the faster and more intense the ‘sun’ starts to pulsate. Besides that the audience will receive the artwork on their mobile phones via Bluetooth. The yellow light of the mobile art work also pulsates and will be spread as some sort of virus.
The installation will be on display to the public at DROPSTUFF in Venice, Italy for the duration of the Biennale.
Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a sculptor / architect working in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at the Academie of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Roosegaarde´s work explores the dynamic relation between architecture, people and new media. His sculptures are a collision of technology and the human body. In this interaction the sculptures create a situation where visitor and (public) space become one. The concept of Daan Roosegaarde is that technology will slip away from the computer and telephone screen and will merge with our body and the physical surroundings. Other art works, such as ‘Dune’, Flow 5.0’ and ‘Sustainable Dance Floor’ have the same kind of subject.
The multidisciplinary work of Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde explores the dynamic shifts which tend to occur between architecture, people and e-culture. His interactive sculptures generate what Roosegaarde calls 'tactile high-tech,’ a unique situation which culminates in the fusion of visitor and (public) space.
Roosegaarde’s upcoming public installation for the 53rd Venice Biennale will mark the artist’s foray into new territory. Designed specifically for the occasion of the Biennale, Venus for Venice is a newly commissioned large-scale work comprising a 14 by 4 meter display that will overwhelm the historic Riva di Ca di Dio square with recurrent shifts in light, temporarily altering both the mood and landscape of the surrounding environment.
The LED screen is filled with a slow pulsating, bright yellow light. In this way a pulsating, abstract landscape of light arises; like a digital ‘sun’ or the planet ‘Venus’. The closer visitors stand at the screen, the faster and more intense the ‘sun’ starts to pulsate. Besides that the audience will receive the artwork on their mobile phones via Bluetooth. The yellow light of the mobile art work also pulsates and will be spread as some sort of virus.
The installation will be on display to the public at DROPSTUFF in Venice, Italy for the duration of the Biennale.
Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a sculptor / architect working in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at the Academie of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Roosegaarde´s work explores the dynamic relation between architecture, people and new media. His sculptures are a collision of technology and the human body. In this interaction the sculptures create a situation where visitor and (public) space become one. The concept of Daan Roosegaarde is that technology will slip away from the computer and telephone screen and will merge with our body and the physical surroundings. Other art works, such as ‘Dune’, Flow 5.0’ and ‘Sustainable Dance Floor’ have the same kind of subject.
Via: Studio Roosegaarde
