1. Project Title

reVIBRATION No. 01 (rV01)

2. Project Abstract

reVIBRATION No. 01 is a room-size sculptural installation comprised of a field of repeating cylindrical elements of beeswax, suspended in a grid pattern in which sensors capture the “light” of this environment and all of its contents (including its visitors) and software converts the light into “sound” that is projected back into the space, thus yielding an intangible equivalent of the 3-dimensional space in real time.

3. Project Description

rV01 is the first in a series of poly-sensory sculptural installations that explore the interface of space, form, sound, light and experience. The work involves a minimum of twelve cylindrical structures vertically suspended in a grid pattern. These forms are softened by their rounded contours and are made of beeswax mixed with yellow pigment. The room is under continuous surveillance with a system of sensors that capture the ‘light-waves’ of the room. These recorded ‘light waves’ are translated in real time into ‘sound waves’, and fed back into the space.

The suspended elements are distributed so that visitors can comfortably move between them, yet close enough that the forms visually and physically have a charged relationship with one another. Visitors are invited to travel around and into the sculpture. The farther ‘within’ a participant goes, the more intimate the space, and the viewer’s experience of it, becomes. Towards the center of the ‘field’, participants experience themselves mostly surrounded by the forms, with only glimpses to the exterior. At any given moment, the presence and the movement of the viewers affect the sound the work emits.

By interpreting physical matter in the form of waves, and transposing the waves into sound, this piece explores the blurring of boundaries between physical and immaterial states, object and subject, seeing and being seen, color, form and sound.