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yesNoPerhaps
Terrasse des Rohan, Strasbourg, France
2021
Out of the random combinations glyphs are generated. Some may correspond to roman letters, some even to words, and once placed in the right order by the aid of Ai, a text out of pure randomness emerges in the public realm questioning sense and non-sense within the Res Publica.
ZaitWuert
Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2019
A 6 letters display replaces the former light sign of the art center contextualising its name, related to its historic function of a Casino, by using chance operations to display random generated words.
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365Leuven
De Hoorn, Leuven, Belgium
2019
A seven-letter display constituted of giant sixteen-segments is mounted on top of the roof of a former brewery in the harbour of Leuven, facing the city center. Every day a random generated word let the passer-by's imagination free course.
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10e-15
Centre de recherche Femto, Temis Science, Besançon, France
2014
the title refers to the metric scale of Femto, a technology exploring photons, light. The artwork translate this technology in a 15m long fries of Fresnel lenses, magnifying the landscape into an impressionistic play of light. The artwork proposes to the passer-by to progressively enter into pure light.
LuxAeternae
AZF Mémorial, Toulouse, France
2012
Lux Aeterna is the official memorial for the explosion of the AZF factory in Toulouse, France. The disaster took place on 21 September 2001, and is one of the most significant industrial accidents of its time, due to the magnitude of damage and the number of victims.
Kontexte
crossover Loredana Marchi, Brussels, Belgium
2021
As pure result of combinatorial logic, random words are displayed for the time that was necessary to generate them, as their rhythm is juxtaposed to the flow of the city. For a moment, an urban poem appears, a text without an author, evoking a stealth meaning, and thus giving free rein to our imagination.
Palimpsest
Wijkpark De Porre, Ghent, Belgium
2019
Random generated words scroll along the crown of a former industrial cooling tower. Each new word overwrites older ones, creating a palimpsest of pure combinatorial logic, a continuous random poem in the skyline of Ghent.
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365Charleroi
Quai 10 and La Vigie, Charleroi, Belgium
2016
An eight-letter display crowns the new building 'Quai 10', facing the main trainstation and city ring of the Belgian city Charleroi. It displays one random generated word a day, hence its title 365. The artwork questions our reading of the urban landscape and offers a field of associations and interpretations.
SiloScope
Quai Jules Guesde, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, France
2014
The 20 m high hyperboloid is a sound reactive light sculpture, located at the Seine riverbanks in Vitry-sur-Seine. The use and triangulation of sound sensors, allow to determine the direction and speed of sound emitted from the urban context. this data is used to generate the illumination patterns.
public artworks by the Belgian artstudio LAb[au], laboratory for art and urbanism, atr&language, art&architecture crossing conceptual art, kinetic art, digital art, konkrete
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