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Sequenced Mirrored Squares Capture You in Reflection

Nonotak Studio's kinetic installation 'Narcisse' uses angles, surfaces, movement, and sounds to change people's visual perception.

Photo: Arnaud Deprez

The Greek myth of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection and doomed himself because of it, is the inspiration for the mirror-based kinetic sculpture Narcisse by Nonotak Studio. 25 reflective mechanized screens shudder and flip in geometric patterns, creating surface forms and augmenting the room.

"Using lights and reflections running all around the room, Narcisse affects the visual perception of the space," Nonotak explains. "Through the interplay of angles, surfaces, movement and sounds, it transforms, defines, merges and explores different kinds of space and spatiality, from water surface, to sharp and dangerous surfaces."

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Photo: Arnaud Deprez

The installation was exhibited at LE CUBE in Issy Les Moulineaux, France last month. Custom made shields for the electric servos meant they could send MIDI data to each mirror and be controlled on Ableton Live's timeline. Using MaxMSP software, they tweaked the MIDI signal and visualized the setup too.

The duo see it as a continuation of their previous work, but one that gives their perception-bending visuals a more physical form than their light art experiments. Plans are afoot for a V.2 which would be larger and involve projections.  "We like how the amount of details change when switching from one scale to another," they note. See it in action below:

Photo: Arnaud Deprez

Photo: Arnaud Deprez

Photo: Arnaud Deprez

Click here to visit Nonotak Studio's website, and check out the links below for more from the artist duo.

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