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origami Semaphore
2019
LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang
5 modules 80x40cm each with 40 kinetic elements
techniques: aluminium, motors, custom-tailored software and electronics
format
unique kinetic artwork based on rhombi shape
other geometries are possible: see gallery 2
format
Verkehrsgelb / Safety yellow : RAL-Farbe 1023
Verkehrsrot / Safety red : RAL-Farbe 3020
Verkehrsweiß / Safety white : RAL 9016
history
2024 - Painting, Writing, Calculating, Transcoding
Solo Show at Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo
2022 - ZEITZEICHEN, ZEICHENZEIT
Solo Show, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
2022 - PEINTURE: OBSOLESCENCE DEPROGRAMME
Group Show, Hospice Saint-Roch d'Issoudun
2020 - YES: NO, PERHAPS
Solo Show, Mario Mauroner Contemporary, Vienna
2019 - IF THEN ELSE
Solo Show, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg City
abstract
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.
transcoding:
transcoding: the flag alphabet, semaphore, into a rhombi shape subdivided into eight kinetic elements.
transcoding the alphabet into binary code expressed through the open/closed states of the yellow/red kinetic elements
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text
This work explores the tessellation of planar geometries along with combinatory logic, using the principles of semaphore signalling to extend its formal language to written/spoken language. The starting point consists of five modules transcribing the coding and anthropomorphic constraints of the flag telegraph (semaphore) into a geometric and kinetic construct.
But instead of displaying words, the work randomly permutes letters, producing equal geometric compositions. Here, written language, where one would normally locate meaning, is reduced to probability, all possible meanings within the same construct.
collection
privat collection, Miami, USA
artwork by the Belgian art-studio LAb[au] dealing with the transcoding of signs, symboles, codes from one media into another
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