Runaway AV
by Bas van Koolwijk | Ars Electronica Quarter | Sat 7.9.13 | 18.00-18.30h
about Sphæræ.
Sphæræ is a low-power portable performance and experimentation platfrom for the arts and sciences for an audience upto 100 guests. Sphæræ can touch down on uncharted territories making temporary ecosystems with fragile and complex atmospheric conditions as an instrument to explore the phenomena of light, sound and movement.
This project by Cocky Eek mimics the geometry of soap-bubble clusters. The Sphæræ performance program is developed in collaboration with Synergetica Studiolab and the ArtScience interfaculty.
Contributors / performers in the Sphæræ program include: Francisco López (NL/SP), Bas van Koolwijk (NL), Matthijs Munnik (NL), Martijn van Boven (NL), Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand (BY/NL), Paul Prudence (UK), Robert Curgenven (AUS), Erfan Abdi (NL), Joris Strijbos & Yamila Rios (NL), Dieter Vandoren (BE) & Mariska de Groot (NL), Nenad Popov (D), Barbara Ellison (NL), Joost Rekveld (NL), Eric Parren (US), Valekriy (NL), Raphael Vanoli (NL), Eduard Haiman & Michael Holub & V4W.ENKO & Vadim Smakhtin (RU/UA), O.M.F.O. (NL) and Arthur I. Miller(US).
Based on the work of Christopher Alexander, Cocky Eek developed a pattern-language which can be used for inflatable architecture. This study resulted in the design of a lightweight pavilion, inspired on the clustering of soap bubbles, built up from five semi-transparant domes.
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