colour, language,colour
time and possibility

as interconnected fields
of artistic research

artworks
painting, writing, calculating, sensing, transcoding

installations
available, archive, in progress

public art
public space, indoor, ongoing, proposals

PUBLIC ART

# Urban Signs

# Landmarks
# Displays of Emergence
# Sensing Architectures

# Generative Structures

OUTDOORS

# Urban Signs
# Sculptural Landmarks
# Memorial Spaces
# Architectural Interventions

Palimpsest

Wijkpark De Porre, Ghent, Belgium

2019

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang

36 custom tailored sixteen segment displays and electronics, iron structure

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 poem in the skyline of Ghent.

abstract

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 poem in the skyline of Ghent.

credits

special thanks:
Walter Wathieu, technical assistance

text

Def: Palimpsest: In textual studies, a palimpsest is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse in the form of another document

history

LAb[au] has been winning in 2010 the open call for the public art competition for the cooling tower of the former textile factory in De Porre, Ghent.. After multiple proposals, budget cut downs, the actual project has been realised in 2019.