Deep Space, ARS Electronica
Deep Space is a current exhibit at the ARS Electronica building. The technological heart of Deep Space consists of eight 1080p HD- and Active Stereo-capable Barco Galaxy NH12 projectors. The images are projected onto mammoth 16x9-meter displays mounted on the wall as well as in the floor. A great vantage-point view and a dizzying shift of perspective is available from the Deep Space Platform set up at an altitude of about five meters. The possibilities for display in the space are endless and currently feature a wide variety of artist works featuring innovative graphical techniques and create storytelling mediums, recreations of architectural and art historical spaces, and images shot by top of the line cameras.
Deep Space, for me, represents the irreversible cohesion between science and art that has emerge through the development of modern technology. The resources available today to visual artists allow them to create works that break the two dimensional, sight-dominated format of traditional artists works that it is hard to image them as working within the same discourse anymore. The space created in Deep Space submerge visitors in an all-encompasing experience of sight and sound, and most importantly: space. The technology seems to be similar to that of Imax, in that you can surround your viewers with visual image and sound in order to more fully engulf them in a viewing experience. However, Deep Space creates an opportunity to utilize this technology for mediums beyond that of film, creating an interactive, overwhelming new artistic medium.
While much of what is projected in the room would traditionally be considered the work of science - intense, high resolution images of nature, delicate recostructions of historical sites, explorations into macro- and micro-visions - the venue allows for this work to presented as a kind of art. The presentation of this imformation in the space is not for the sole purpose of imparting scientific knowledge on viewers: the creators designed the space so that viewers will be engaged in an experience. This is the overlap I see emerging between art and science through the use of technology: science provides the format and mechanisms through which this information can be presented, as well as providing more advanced ways of imaging nature, while the actual conveyance of information is conducting in increasingly superfluous and creative ways that move beyond pure information transfer.
Deep Space, for me, represents the irreversible cohesion between science and art that has emerge through the development of modern technology. The resources available today to visual artists allow them to create works that break the two dimensional, sight-dominated format of traditional artists works that it is hard to image them as working within the same discourse anymore. The space created in Deep Space submerge visitors in an all-encompasing experience of sight and sound, and most importantly: space. The technology seems to be similar to that of Imax, in that you can surround your viewers with visual image and sound in order to more fully engulf them in a viewing experience. However, Deep Space creates an opportunity to utilize this technology for mediums beyond that of film, creating an interactive, overwhelming new artistic medium.
While much of what is projected in the room would traditionally be considered the work of science - intense, high resolution images of nature, delicate recostructions of historical sites, explorations into macro- and micro-visions - the venue allows for this work to presented as a kind of art. The presentation of this imformation in the space is not for the sole purpose of imparting scientific knowledge on viewers: the creators designed the space so that viewers will be engaged in an experience. This is the overlap I see emerging between art and science through the use of technology: science provides the format and mechanisms through which this information can be presented, as well as providing more advanced ways of imaging nature, while the actual conveyance of information is conducting in increasingly superfluous and creative ways that move beyond pure information transfer.
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