4.29E
Reverse
24 June - 19 August 2004
Exhibition « Intrusiones »
Curated by Jose Lebrero
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
Sevilla, Spain
REVERSE
REVERSE CINEMA
REVERSE TV
REVERSE BOOK
REVERSE NOTICE BOARD
REVERSE is a project dealing with a specialist inversion: the loss of information instead of receiving it. Its objective is to create spaces where data is lost where information diminishes, inverting the present-day system where data is distributed through electromagnetic projections in the cinema, on television and public announcements. In each case, the objective is not to receive information but to lose it, changing our state as receivers of information into that of transmitters of information. We estimate that the amount of information that we receive from our environment through our senses as being 10 bits to the power of 9. REVERSE is an architectural and urban project that aims to produce negative information and a negative information environment ? at least 10 raised to the power of -9. The field of action is the same: electromagnetic space, now however, the direction is reversed. Our bodies change from being to receivers to transmitters. The infra-red beam directed to the cinema screen becomes cold and black. All bodies emit energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation. Our skin, at a temperature of between 33º and 36ºC emits infra-red radiation. If an object in our environment is colder than our skin, the heat our bodies lose in the form of radiation will be directed towards this colder object. Our body, placed before the screen becomes literally a projector of invisible information. This is the inverse state that we seek: changing from a passive to an active state, we become transmitters in a suddenly receptive environment.
REVERSE CINE is located in the Chapel of Santa Ana or Colón of the Monasterio de la Cartuja en el Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. The project is that of an inverted cinema. The room is lit; the screen is black and cooled to a temperature of 2ºC. It retains and stores information in itself. Moreover, in the field of visible light, it absorbs all of the colours of the spectrum while in the field of invisible energy; it absorbs heat from the hotter bodies. During the information stage, our bodies, at a temperature of 37ºC projects heat onto the black screen, radiating infrared energy towards the it, designing the edges of an invisible film. The matt black screen absorbs all visible light and its energy. It is cooled by a water-glycol mixture refigeration circuit at 0ºC and its visible dimensions are of 3.5m x 2m.
REVERSE TV project aims to broadcast at certain times of the day black absorbing light through local and nationwide TV stations.
REVERSE LIBRO project is the publication of a catalogue with several matt black pages that are completely light absorbent and reflection-free.
REVERSE NOTICE BOARD project that of distributing absorbent matt black notice boards throughout the city.
Décosterd & Rahm, asociados
April 2004
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