Lightmap

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Work: Since midnight 31 december 2012, a camera on the roof of the museum M (Leuven, Belgium) takes a picture of the sky every 6 minutes. Resulting in 240 pictures every 24 hours. An installation inside the museum automatically prints these pictures on small plastic cubes measuring 8 x 8 mm. LIGHTMAP ‘ticks’ away one plastic cube every six minutes, leaving a trace of what time essentially is: the movement of the earth around the sun. This process will end one year and 82.000 blocks later, on midnight 31 december 2013. The result will be one lightmap, made out of 82.000 small prints/cubes, offering an overview of the changing weather and light of the year 2013. This eye-shaped image will show the passing of the seasons as one strong ‘pulse’ or ‘beat’ of sunlight: the increasing and diminishing of light over the course of one year.
Photographer: Ief Spincemaille
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Since midnight 31 december 2012, a camera on the roof of the museum M (Leuven, Belgium) takes a picture of the sky every 6 minutes. Resulting in 240 pictures every 24 hours. An installation inside the museum automatically prints these pictures on small plastic cubes measuring 8 x 8 mm. LIGHTMAP ‘ticks’ away one plastic cube every six minutes, leaving a trace of what time essentially is: the movement of the earth around the sun. This process will end one year and 82.000 blocks later, on midnight 31 december 2013.
The result will be one lightmap, made out of 82.000 small prints/cubes, offering an overview of the changing weather and light of the year 2013. This eye-shaped image will show the passing of the seasons as one strong ‘pulse’ or ‘beat’ of sunlight: the increasing and diminishing of light over the course of one year.
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source: thishappened

Ief Spincemaille

Ief Spincemaille (1976) obtained his master in Philosophy at the university of Leuven and studied Jazz, modern music and music and technology at L’aula de musica, Barcelona. He is active as an independent set designer and visual artist since 2006. Together with Kurt d’haeseleer he runs the organisation The Werktank since 2010, a production house for new and old media art, which focuses on the practical aspects of the artwork.

Ief will talk about the Lightmap. Just like a map of a city creates a new view on the city, LIGHTMAP will create a new view on the changing weather and light during one year; a phenomenon that shapes our daily environment more than anything else. Our installation will capture the light and weather above Leuven of the year 2013 in ONE image consisting of 96.000 small pictures, printed on small plexi cubes of 7 x 7 mm. Every five minutes a picture made by a camera on the roof of the museum M will be printed on a plexi cube. During the whole year, the installation will create itself. The installation will be made of 365 strings and on each string 250 cubes are attached. Lightmap will be showed in Museum M from the 1st of January till the 31st of December 2013.
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source: felixart

Ief Spincemaille (°1976, lives and works in Louvain) Most projects are multidisciplinary and consist of images, sound, words, objects and people. Just like scenes in everyday life. The main aim is to build SITUATIONS, theatre of experience, orchestrated scenes and story’s where the witness is forced in a certain role. Like an actor in a film scene. All different media like video, sound, ideas, words etc… are used as if they are objects. Like sculpting, but then in the age of multimedia. Some projects are carried out in collaboration with different people from different backgrounds like computer and 3D programmers, writers, musicians, storytellers and videoartists.