JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A CHARACTER, DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE CHARACTER

JUST BECAUSE

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

In this large, kinetic interactive light artwork, rotation transforms into translation. The coloured light and movements create new characters; a new Eindhoven visual language, which has an alienating as well as a connecting factor. The miraculous, repetitive movement challenges the spectator into constantly discovering new structures.

He started his third major project in 2016. It is a kinetic construction of moving elements such as beams, which are linked by means of pivots. “It converts rotation in translation.” The machine is doubly performed, whereby all kinds of patterns are to be seen during its movement. Each of the moving beams has a light which can be put on and of separately and change color. “Thus characters can be written, as a new sort of visual language.”

The intention is that the public may operate interactively through an app or with a control panel. “Making it possible for the Eindhovenaar to draw his own characters.”

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Artist
Ivo Schoofs

Year

dec – 2016

Commisioned by

Valmont structures, ACE, Vermeulen metaal BV, EHV356, GLOW

Developed by

• Pieter Oppers (construction and engineering)
• Pieter-Paul (Pepe) Heijnen (electrical engineering and software)
• Jürgen de Wolf (3D model engineering and calculations)

Constructed by

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