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laboratory for art and urbanism

fields of research:
colour – time – signal - language – possibility

towards:
an archive of colour
an architecture of time

an observatory of the unknown
a combinatorium of languages
a library of possibles and probables

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, sensing, transcoding

installations
available, archive, in progress

public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

From kinetic to digital art

From Kinetic to Digital Art at Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, 2010: connecting kinetic, optical and digital art. Curated by LAb[au] and Second Nature.

Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France

02.06.2010–11.07.2010

curated by LAb[au] and Seconde Nature

LIST OF ARTISTS

Carsten Nicolai - Rota Ryoji Ikeda - data.scan Zimoun, 175 Prepared DC-Motors - Marius Watz, grid distortions - LAb[au], multiple works release monograph: MetaDesign

The Exhibition further including works of French pioneers of kinetic, op, generative and cybernetic art: Vera Molnar (plotter drawings), Nicolas Schöffer (chronos10), Jean-Pierre Yvaral, Victor Vasarely

ABOUT

This exhibition places side by side the architectural and visual art heritage of the Vasarely Foundation along side with contemporary artworks that develop a transversal approach across “digital” art and sound creation. Here, artwork created on site and known of as “integrations” are shown along side a selection of the silkscreen prints produced by the master of Op Art, Victor Vasarely, a sculpture by the forefather of cybernetic art, Nicolas Schoëffer - Chronos 10 - and other artworks recognized as being at the spearhead of today’s “digital” art. If the Vasarely Foundation, a veritable shrine of Op art, has work that is considered some of the most contemporary pieces of graphic artwork today, we can still feel that the mark of time, the vocabulary and the art language developed by the one continues to nourish the creativity and technological mastery of the other. By revealing the attitude adopted by the creators-developers of today, those following in the wake of Victor Vasarely and Nicolas Schöffer, we will understand how their work also bears the mark of the technological upheavals of their era. This group exhibition will be the subject of a catalogue to be published by LAb[au] entitled: MetaDesign

PRESENTED ARTWORK

framework f5x5x5, kinetic light sculpture

chrono.Prints, acomputer generated prints

particleSynthesis, projection space

binaryWave Notations, computer generated prints

Pixflox and SwarmDots, generative art console

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