Crossing parallels with Philip Beesley
Students from BK Bouwkunde and the faculty of Industrial Design will develop a large scale, immersive interactive installation with artist and architect Philip Beesley. From 17 - 25 November 2018, the installation will be on display at the TU Delft Science Centre.
The installation will be developed during an intensive one-week workshop. The workshop will bring together months of sharing knowledge and ideas and logistical preparations. The resulting living sculpture introduces coral reefs as metaphor, in which multiple student groups develop different mechanisms and elements to populate a larger, shared environment. The artist and the students will have to actively negotiate boundaries, connections, and interactions that will emerge on the growing coral reef, with surely a surprising result.
The resulting installation will be presented at the TU Delft Science Centre, together with other works from Crossing Parallels. The exhibition opens with a free programme with Philip Beesley on Interactive Environments, on Saturday 17 November, 14:00 – 16:00. The exhibition is part of the Delft festival HighLight. The installation will be on show at the Science Centre until Sunday 25 November 2018.
Crossing Parallels is a joint platform from TU Delft and TodaysArt. The platform brings together artists and scientists to collaborate on innovative projects, stimulate future technologies, and reflect upon scientific inventions and their challenges for society at large. Philip Beesley is their current artist-in-residence, collaborating with Henriette Bier of BK Bouwkunde and Aadjan van der Helm of the faculty of Industrial Design.
More information on the exhibition and the opening event can be found in the agenda of the Science Centre.