January 2011
141 posts
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Swarm Light
To such a tremulous wisp constantly re-forming itself on the stream, to a single...
– Walter Pater (from The Renaissance, 1873)
Ryoji Ikeda
Test Pattern [n˚2] presents flickering black and white imagery that floats and convulses in darkness on two screens, one on the floor and another floor to ceiling, in time with a stark and powerful, highly synchronised soundtrack. Through a real–time computer programme, Ikeda’s audio signal patterns are converted into tightly synchronised barcode patterns on the screens. Viewers are...