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lexicon
started in 2017
There is only one rule: the blank white page must be filled until it is black. Chapter after chapter is added, slowly creating a lexicon with all possible ways to accomplish the given task.
One of a Billion centuries
started in 2017
Each page of the book shows the random combinations that are generated during a day according to a certain time set, iterations. The book with its 365 pages thus forms a year of combinations, while the 100 books form a corpus for a century; a century next to the billion possible ones.
if then else
started in 2017
If Then Else is a conditional statement in programming language, subject to Boolean evaluation, true or false, 0 or 1. The origin of the expression can be traced to the philosophy of language and its predicate logic, which enables us to combine algorithmic and conceptual thinking with aesthetics.
One of a Billion Days-Weeks-Years...
started in 2017
Plotting minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day... all possible unique combinations of a 16-segment display on paper in the format DIN. This setting relates the viewer's time and space to the almost infinite scale of abstract numbers, information.
xxx xxx xxx xxx
started in 2017
Theoretically, if the letters of the alphabet are mixed up randomly, it can take an instant or an infinite amount of time to create a 12-letter word. The system is initialized at all times: Will a word ever emerge during lifetime? What word will it be? Consequently, the work relates prediction, chance, and randomness.
s:n-notations
started in 2017
The fragments of letters form a concrete poetry, composed according to the moment they were spat out by the eponymous installation, it's machinery. They trace the tiny accidents and create their own reading, considering this notation as a visual object of failure, independent of a primary, literal meaning.
__ What God hath wrought ?!
__ Signal To Noise
__ Oh my God, extended
__ xxxx xxxx letterbox
__ 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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