Joris Strijbos – Oscillations
Opening: 24 June 2016, 6pm
25 June – 30 July 2016
Dolziger Straße 31, 10247 Berlin
www.nomeproject.com <http://www.nomeproject.com/>
NOME is pleased to open „Oscillations" by Joris Strijbos on 24 June 2016
The Dutch artist shows his kinetic light sculptures – „Axon" and „Homeostase" –
the result of broader research into artificial life and generative composition.
Strijbos’s work originates in a series of research questions related to
cybernetics, swarm intelligence, and communication networks. Through kinetic
installations he develops complex immersive and synesthetic landscapes in which
image, sound and light continually intertwine in an emergent choreography.
The two installations of „Oscillations" – „Axon" and „Homeostase" – are
composed of a series of identical elements, connected in a network and
exchanging information between one another through electric signals. The
collective behavior of the actuators and sensors create unpredictable patterns
larger than their individual parts, as though a system of living organisms with
their own variable program. A moving scene emerges, where the borders between a
‘natural’ order of things and the mechanical constructions of humans are
tested.
Strijbos plays with the potential of technology to mimic biological systems, so
that generative processes merge the algorithmic with the physical world.
Aesthetically, the moving sculptures are monochrome and minimalist, calling to
mind the austere visual code of Otto Piene and Heinz Mack’s Zero Group in the
1960s. When set in motion the works could be windmills, metallic birds or
beacons, whose effects create a multi-sensorial experience for the audience. In
Homeostase, for example, multiple rotating objects are programmed to perform an
ever-changing choreography – a play of attraction and repulsion that comes from
the luminous language of the swarm.
Joris Strijbos studied BA Arts and Sciences at the Royal Academy of Art in The
Hague, with a Masters degree from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. His work
has been presented at Ars Electronica (Linz), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), TodaysArt
Festival, STRP (Eindhoven), DEAF Biennale (Rotterdam), Wood Street Galleries
(Pittsburg), Atonal Festival (Berlin), WRO International Media Art Biennale
(Wroclaw), and the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam). Joris Strijbos is part of
Macular, a collective of artists researching the interplay of light, sound and
motion. Their practice focuses on the programming and manipulation of emergent
systems and properties as well as on the constant observation of natural
phenomena and dynamic processes.
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