Dynamogénie
/
To eliminate intermediaries, to reduce the medium to a minimum. To get the source as close as possible to the receiver. To simplify information down to a direct emission of energy, with no semantic detours, with no encoding or delay : energy, immediate and necessary. The purpose of this project is to achieve an immediate art through specific, efficient action. It employs the organic mechanisms of things inter se, and dispenses with the conventional forms of communication : analog, poetic, esthetic or rhetorical.
The work is performed on the mass and energy that carry information, and more particularly, on the information itself. It is the materiality of information that becomes the subject and the material of the work of art. We literally sculpt this medium composed of electrical energy and masses in movement. This is work performed on form, in the air and in the body, which takes as its point of departure an emission of electromagnetic waves as initial hormonal excitation. This work of art stimulates the endocrine and nervous systems ; it acts on the formation of hormones, the chemical messengers that carry information throughout the body. All that remains is information that is receivable immediately, without any linguistic or semantic encoding - information that acts on the metabolism. It is this will to achieve immediate communication, a meeting with no intermediary, that is being proposed as a potential artistic stance.
The aim of the project is to artificially modify the interior climate of a school by the diffusion of electromagnetic radiation reproducing the solar spectrum, the intensity of this radiation varying as a function of the exterior luminosity. The lengths of the artificially emitted waves cover the visible range of the spectrum and some of the ultraviolet. The light is very intense, often dazzling. It is an artificial sun in motion, responding exactly to variations in natural luminosity, artificially compensating for exterior darkening, which has an impact on interior sunlight. The action of these electromagnetic waves reduces hydrogen sulfide compounds, stimulates enzymes, ferments and vitamins, and regulates the level of calcium in the blood. Here, the work of art is no longer addressed to the visual or the auditory, but rather to the neurovegetative and endocrine systems. An art that, by the brevity of its information, attains physiological reception.
/
/
/
Dynamogénie
Design
EPSIC, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 1999
/
Décosterd & Rahm, associés