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colour, language, signal,
time and possibility


as interconnected fields
of artistic research

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

# Instruments of Transcription
# Generative Constructs
# Emergent Languages
# Performative Settings

# Speculative Spaces

# Room Installations
# Sensing Fields
# Conceptual Environments
# Architectural Constellations

1600 Years of Light *field by LAb[au], covering the gallery floor with a yellow monochrome at Kunstmuseum Heidenheim.

1600 Years of Light *field

2019

A yellow monochrome made of uranium ore slowly turns black. Its continuous emission of energy transforms colour into a material process, a reality unfolding in time.

Lexicon lib a room full of frames showing different rules to fill a white page

Lexicon *lib

2016

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an 8 letter sixteen segment display on a wall showing random generated words

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2018

An eight-letter display presents words generated randomly, letter by letter. This process replaces traditional narrative with a system moving playfully between sense and nonsense, concrete poetry and an agnostic vision, inviting viewers to interpret and associate.

installation view of LAb[au]'s work Oh my God in the U-Boot Bunker of Bordeaux

Oh My God

2018

The artwork captures cosmic rays and transforms these messengers of another time way before our existence into light, sound and text. In this way the artwork connects us to the scale of space and time by making the invisible visible.

an archive of colours based of LAb[au]'s work What colours tell us about...?

Wortmischungen *archive

2024

The archive presents a model of colour based on language. Mixing colour names into anagrams reveals meanings latent in their etymologies, transforming them into new artistic narratives.

a wall filled with 365 frames showing a century of perutations

One of a Billion Years

2016

From a simple construct emerge almost infinite variations—words, sequences and texts—each a matter of probability and time. The artwork connects measured time with phenomenological experience, situating us within this field of possibilities.

a wall of Mueum M in Leuven showing 16 networked telegraphs

What God hath wrought ?!

2017

Sixteen telegraphs continuously relay the first message transmitted in the US on May 24, 1844. Their sounds fill the space as paper rolls trace the exchange across the floor. Gradually, collisions and errors alter the original message: “See what God has done.”

Installation view of LAb[au]'s artwork signal to noise showing visitors surrounded by spinning mechanical split-flaps

Signal To Noise

2012

512 split-flaps spin at random speeds, surrounding viewers with an endless stream of letters that occasionally form words. Their familiar clicking evokes the pre-digital jet age while prompting reflections on logic and meaning.

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