Still from vitreous, Robert Seidel. All images courtesy Leo Kuelbs.
Tonight, the Brooklyn end of the Manhattan Bridge sets the backdrop for artistic meditations on consciousness, communication, and the intangible elements that connect us. Curator Leo Kuelbs and artist Eike Berg project the work of six video artists for a fourth edition of the annual Light Year show, entitled Transflexion: Net of Mirrors. The single-channel projections will be accompanied by a sound composition by Alexander Hacke, which won’t be synced to the video content—instead, the piece will loop continually in order to interact with the visuals in unpremeditated ways.
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The various exchanges at play between the artwork, the audience and the physical surroundings are at the heart of the event. “In some ways, it is about how digital-based work can bring people together, not only online, but also in different types of physical spaces,” says Leo Kuelbs, whose office is located in the DUMBO neighborhood. He adds: “Bringing the digital to the terrestrial is a huge part of my practice, my interest, obsession.” Kuelbs has been organizing video projections on the bridge since 2010.
Still from Neural Reflections, Helga Griffiths.
The show’s title refers to Danielle De Picciotto's video short, Net of Mirrors, which explores human connection through networks of blinking eyes—the mirrors of the soul. In Neural Reflections, German artist Helga Griffiths explores perception, imagination, and memory. Her video animation juxtaposes images of nerve cells over CAT scans of the artist's brain, inciting viewers to reflect upon their own neural processes as they watch the piece.Meanwhile, Berlin-based artist Robert Seidel premieres vitreous one month ahead of the film's expected online release. With a background in both biology and media design, Seidel constructs abstractions that draw from science and cinematographic techniques. Caspar Stracke, who works in Helsinki and Berlin, culls images of significant objects from a Flickr collection of street photos from Seoul, Tehran, and New York City, and reorganizes the cultural fragments in urban particle supercollider. Also on the docket are Frankfurt-based artist Thomas Lüer, with his film Single Channel, and Hungarian artist Bordos.Artworks who specializes in 3D mapping.
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Still from Net of Mirrors, Danielle De Picciotto
Still from Bordos.Artworks
Still from "Immersive Surfaces," Image by Glowing Bulbs and John Ensor Parker, Curated by Leo Kuelbs, 2011, NYC.
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