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colour, language, signal
time and possibility


as interconnected fields
of artistic research

painting, writing, calculating, sensing, and transcoding

 

exploring the intersections of

colour, time, signal, language, and possibility

# signals
# information
# codes
# symbols


exploring the limits of signs
translating one language into another

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, sensing, transcoding

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installations
available, archive, in progress

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public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

Wortmischungen
Colour Theory - THE ARCHIVE

Wortmischungen
Colour Theory - THE ARCHIVE

2023, ongoing

The archive displays a colour theory based on anagrams of colour names, setting the etymologie of colour in the centre of the artistic exploration and expression, whereas the anagrams create a new field of reading, establishing step by step a language of colours.

What colours tell us about...? -  Colourpoetry

What colours tell us about...? - Colourpoetry

2024, ongoing

The selection of anagrams of colour names from the general archive is based on surprising and unexpected wordplays, catapulting our understanding of colours into a new imaginary. A field where language, image, and colour coexist beyond their dualisms.

deepBlue

deepBlue

2016

The binary code of the commonly known 256 colour value system of computer screens is decoded into letters and numbers to search for what the blue colour may tell us.; transcoding the binary code of colour into language

origami Semaphore

origami Semaphore

2019

The artwork transcribes the anthropomorphic flag alphabet of the semaphore into geometric shapes, subdivided into eight kinetic elements. Their motion follows this binary logic, displaying randomly all of its 17.210.368 combinations, which would take more than 11 years of continuous viewing.

Good Luck

Good Luck

2019

Good Luck by LAb[au] transforms the rare four-leaf clover from a symbol of chance into a field of genetically produced certainty.

What colours tell us about...? 
Colours

What colours tell us about...?
Colours

2024, ongoing

A selection of anagrams of colour names resulting in colour names creates a new reading of colours and their possible meanings. What is primarily derived from language places colour at the very centre of the artwork, becoming a vehicle for a colour philosophy, where colour is an epistemology of language.

What colours tell us about ? - CloudSeven

What colours tell us about ? - CloudSeven

22.04.2025 - ...

And if we were to mix the letters of colour names, just as we mix paint, what would these anagrams tell us? Three flags on the façade of the Belgian collector space Cloudseven will welcome from now on the visitors with an interpretation of its possible reading, namely that of colour.

chronoPrints

chronoPrints

2009

The plotting of the primary colours of light (red, green, blue) according to the basic units of time (hours, minutes, seconds) creates the chromatic of time.
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origami Jacquart

origami Jacquart

2019

Transcoding the flag alphabet, the semaphore, into a binary geometric pattern. Based on this logic, the sorting of all possible combinations of five letters becomes a woven dictionary where its geometric pattern follows language rules. Here geometry is language.

modernTimes, sign of a time

modernTimes, sign of a time

2017

Modern Times explores the display of Time as a Concept of Time itself

__ see also : INSTALLATION // transcoding

artworks by the Belgian art studio dealing with the topic of transcoding, transferring the code of one media into another, the codes, signs, symbols of one into another

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