Evolving Spark Network

source: highlike

Work: Evolving Spark Network uses 80 identical spark bridges distributed regularly in the form of a monumental grid above the audience. The sparks are a metaphor for the electrical impulses by which our nerves communicate information. Just as neurons form networks in our bodies, the spark bridges form an interconnected network in the exhibition space. The movements of visitors in the installation space are detected by means of motion detection sensors and used to activate the network. Complexity arises through the interrelations between the individual spark bridges. The networked structure forms the starting point for an installation in which the result is more then the sum of the individual elements but could never exist without these individual elements. The result is a ‘cosmos’ of sparks with its own rules and behavior. Evolving Spark Network is a multi sensory installation. The sparks produce both sound and light. The generated patterns have distinct visual and sonic qualities. The use of sound makes it possible to perceive the space as a whole. With our eyes we’re always focusing on something (while not focusing on the rest) but with our ears we perceive the whole space around us. The electric spark represents beauty, purity and simplicity. It is one of the most elementary ways of creating light, and the produced impulse generates the shortest imaginable sound. Composing with these impulses can be seen as one of the most fundamental forms of composition in time and space. Concept: Edwin van der Heide Realization: Evolving Spark Network has been realized in the form of a coproduction between V2_Lab and Edwin van der Heide.
Photographer: Studio Edwin van der Heide
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source: evdh
Edwin van der Heide is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the artwork.
He has presented his work at renown museums and festivals as SMAK – Ghent, Ars Electronica Festival – Linz, Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam, V2_’s DEAF – Rotterdam, ICC – Tokyo, NAMOC – Beijing, Transmediale – Berlin, SONAR – Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SFMOMA, FILE – Brazil and SONAMBIENTE – Berlin.
Beside’s running his own studio he’s part-time assistant professor at Leiden University (LIACS / Media Technology MSc programme) and heading the Spatial Interaction Lab at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Arts Academy in The Hague. He was Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (2009), won the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 for his entire body of work. He was an invited artist and guest professor at Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain in France for the year 2011-2012.
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source: digitalarti

À la fois artiste et chercheur, le Néerlandais Edwin van der Heide explore les champs combinatoires du son, de la lumière et de la spatialité. Une démarche interactive où le public est souvent placé au cœur de son travail, confronté à une exploration active de dispositifs aux dimensions autant volumineuses que volumétriques.