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Wortmischungen, Colour Theory - THE ARCHIVE

Wortmischungen, Colour Theory - THE ARCHIVE

2023, ongoing

The archive displays a colour theory based on anagrams of colour names, setting the ethymologie of colour in the centre of the artistic exploration and expression, whereas the anagrams create a new field of reading, establishing step by step a language of colours.

deepBlue, transcoding the binary code of color into language

deepBlue, transcoding the binary code of color into language

2016

The binary code of the commonly known 256 color value system of computer screens is decoded into letters and numbers to search for what the blue color may tell us.
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origami Semaphore

origami Semaphore

2019

The artwork transcribes the anthropomorphic flag alphabet of the semaphore into geometric shapes, subdivided into eight kinetic elements. Their motion follows this binary logic, displaying randomly all of its 17.210.368 combinations, which would take more than 11 years of continuous viewing.

Good Luck, transcoding a symbol of Luck

Good Luck, transcoding a symbol of Luck

2019

Four-leaved clover is a symbol of good luck, but if you encounter an entire field, would your fate be changed?
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Wortmischungen, colours about colours

Wortmischungen, colours about colours

2024, ongoing

A selection of anagrams of colour names resulting in colour names creates a new reading of colours and their possible meanings. What is primarily derived from language places colour at the very centre of the artwork, becoming a vehicle for a colour philosophy, where colour is an epistolgy of language.

chronoPrints

chronoPrints

2009

The plotting of the primary colours of light (red, green, blue) accordingly to the basic units of time (hours, minutes, seconds) creates the chromatic of time.
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origami Jacquart

origami Jacquart

2019

Transcoding the flag alphabet, the semaphore, into a binary geometric pattern. Based on this logic, the sorting of all possible combinations of five letters becomes a woven dictionary where its geometrique pattern follows language rules. Here geometry is language.

modernTimes, sign of a time

modernTimes, sign of a time

2017

The juxtaposition of the iconic shapes of clocks reveals their symbolic value as signs of time.
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__ see also : installations // transcoding

artworks by the Belgian art studio dealing with the topic of transcoding, transferring the code of one media into another, the codes, signs, symbols of one into another

LAb[au] is working on the relationship between: architecture & art - language & art, at the crossing of conceptual, concrete, and digital art.

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