S+T+ARTS

STARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the STARTS residencies foster pioneering collaborations and the STARTS Prize honors the most inspired results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. STARTS is funded through various schemes provided by the European Commission.

S+T+ARTS Prize 2020

microCOSMOS

Mindscape Studio & Ygreq Interactive
The fascination for stars as light-generators has inspired us to create a work that seeks to encompass a fragment of the Universe, an object that reflects the sunlight during daytime and at night becomes a source of light. The title has a double valence, describing, on the one hand, a miniature Cosmos, and on the other hand, referring to a microscopic look on the inner world of man. Thus, the interaction of particles within the structure mirrors, at a symbolic level, the way in which the particles of electricity travel and interact in the human neural network.
The artwork has a metallic structure that is shaped like an icosahedron. Its faces are made up of a material that has a transparent side and a reflective side depending on which side the source of light is. In daylight, due to sunlight, the artwork will mirror the surrounding area and the people looking at it, the work thus having a distinct aesthetic and functionality before the night falls. And during night-time, the source of light will be the LED bars within the structure which animate to a specific choreography. The installation has a sound component which is very important to this whole experience.