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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory
Dmitry Gelfand,
Evelina Domnitch
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Developed in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia and Belgium, Camera Lucida (“chamber of light” or “lucidity”) directly transforms sound waves into light emissions by employing a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence.Within a transparent chamber filled with a gas-infused liquid, multiple ultrasonic transducers generate a constantly modulating sonochemical environment. Ultrasound, propagating within a liquid, triggers the formation and implosion of micro-bubbles that reach temperatures as high as are found on the sun and emit light in the shape of sound waves. After adapting to the absolute darkness surrounding the installation, one gradually perceives the highly detailed configurations of glowing sound waves. The documentations of sonoluminescence presented on this DVD originate from an amalgam of recordings that took place at the Physics Institute of Goettingen University (Germany) and the Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (Japan) between 2003 and 2006. Just to be able to capture the phenomenon on video, it was necessary to achieve the brightest known sonoluminescence.
Links: www.portablepalace.com/lucida, http://www.12k.com/line/line030.htm
Links: www.portablepalace.com/lucida, http://www.12k.com/line/line030.htm
Supported by: 2002–2003 Artist Residency IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), Japan 2004 ProArte Foundation Grant, “Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum”, Russia. 2005–2006 Research Grant, Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Goettingen University,
Germany
Germany
Evelina Domnitch (BY) and Dmitry Gelfand (RU/US) create sensory-immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording media, Domnitch and Gelfand’s installations exist as constantly transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen manifestations take place directly in front of the observer, without being distorted and flattened onto a screen, they often serve to vastly extend the observer’s sensory envelope. Their works have been exhibited worldwide.
Evelina Domnitch (BY) and Dmitry Gelfand (RU/US) create sensory-immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording media, Domnitch and Gelfand’s installations exist as constantly transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen manifestations take place directly in front of the observer, without being distorted and flattened onto a screen, they often serve to vastly extend the observer’s sensory envelope. Their works have been exhibited worldwide.
Evelina Domnitch (BY) and Dmitry Gelfand (RU/US) create sensory-immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording media, Domnitch and Gelfand’s installations exist as constantly transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen manifestations take place directly in front of the observer, without being distorted and flattened onto a screen, they often serve to vastly extend the observer’s sensory envelope. Their works have been exhibited worldwide.