The digital bit is everywhere, the pixel widely
spread.
However as an isolated signal they are worthless.
Only the
unity proves digital data signification and potential
beauty.
For his diploma, Daniel Schulze tried to find a
“pixel” that
unites an
ability to interact with other pixels to form a
picture, as
well as to be sensually discernible as a single unity
and
cause an aesthetic fascination. Our sensuous
experience is
based on electromagnetic waves. Though four of
our
senses are not affected by light, the sense of sight
is rated
as the strongest sense of all. It is interesting that
the same
physical wave that allows us to see is used, in
another
frequency, for the invisible transfer of digital data.
Data
and vision, percipience and invisibility, together
they
assume an interesting coexistence.
The installation “for those who see” draws the
attention on
this relation, an invisible phenomenon is designed
to
become a visually sensible “pixel”. In a rectangular
box
pressure is created by a speaker. This pressure is
vortexing the air at a perfectly circular opening
whereby a
Vortex Ring develops. The energy affiliated by the
sound
adds an impulse to the ring – invisible, as the
sound itself.
Only fog demonstrates this aesthetic phenomenon.
Once
activated the Vortex Ring moves linearly in the air,
where
after a short moment it decrease velocity and
slowly
resolves.
A matrix of 7 x 7 boxes forms the basic shape of
the
installation. Individually released in the air, our
visual
perception connects the single rings, in the short
moment
of their appearance, to patterns, surfaces, symbols
or
bodys. Although our visual perception is highly
focused on
the identification of concrete information, the
installation
offers a moment of visual freedom: corresponding
to the
focus of the observer, one time it is the overall
picture,
another time it might be the individual fragment,
which
invites contemplation and illustrates how
fascinating
something can be that remained invisible before.
For those who see, by Daniel Schulze
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- Elena Sommariva
- 12 July 2010