Lasergraphic Performance: theatre of X at TU Delft
18 November 2023 17:00 till 19:00 | Add to my calendar
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Explore a scenario of the primordial soup in 10,000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid, a lasergraphic performance by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand.
The laser-trapping soap bubbles in this art-science performance are characteristic of the lasergrams featured in the Lens(less)ness exhibition.
After the performance, there will be an art-science ‘Under the Hood’, where students will be invited to inspect and interact with the custom software that makes this performed installation possible. The software (designed by artists and Bas Van Koolwijk in Max) uses a live camera feed, detecting movement and light intensity in order to synchronously transform and generate sound. Studium Generale's Leon Heuts will also conduct a brief philosophical interview with the artists.
After the event, we will adjourn to the Cafe X for informal conversation and socializing.
This event will be presented in partnership with X, SG and EMERGENCE, the newly formed TU Delft Art Tech student Dream Team.
Schedule
17:00 - 17:15 | Introductions to artists and artwork |
17:15 - 17:45 | Performance |
17:45 - 18:15 | Philosophical interview with SG |
18:15 - 18:45 | Art-science ‘Under the Hood’ |
18:45 - 19:00 | Migrate to Cafe X |
Dmitry Gelfand (1974) and Evelina Domnitch (1972) create multi-sensory installations and performances that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Investigating questions of perception and perpetuity, their artworks exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these exotic physical phenomena take place directly in front of the observer without being intermediated, they serve to vastly extend the sensory threshold. The immediacy of this experience allows the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion.
The duo’s practice has emerged through collaborations with pioneering research groups, including LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), EU Quantum Flagship, and Aerospace Engineering (TU Delft). They are recipients of the Witteveen+Bos Award (2019), Meru Art*Science Award (2018), Japan Media Arts Excellence Prize (2007) and five Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017). Domnitch and Gelfand have exhibited at Marten-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), the Venice Biennial, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki) and the National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo).