[spectre] V2_ | Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory

[V2_]

*V2_ presents Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory*


*By Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand
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Thursday 25 January until Saturday 3 February, 2007*

/Camera Lucida/ is an immersive spatial art work creating a fleeting 
ephemeral materiality by intersecting ultrasound with hyperlight … in 
essence creating an unstable sonic aurora. Developed in collaboration 
with numerous physics research labs the 'observatory', a transparent 
gas-filled chamber, converts sound waves into visible light by employing 
a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence. Here, gaseous micro-bubbles 
injected within a fluid medium are blasted with ultrasound causing them 
to implode, at which point they become as hot as the sun and release 
light energy in the form of sound waves. By modulating, or 'playing' the 
ultrasonic transducers attached to the glass chamber an ever-changing 
sonochemical environment, visible only within a sheath of extreme 
darkness, emerges.

Belarussian/American artist duo Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand’s 
practice creates cross-disciplinary art works that integrates physics, 
chemistry and computer science with philosophical practice. With the 
/Camera Lucida/ they work to harness wave phenomena, both as sound and 
light in order to examine intrinsic questions of spatial perception and 
perpetuality. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording 
media, Domnitch and Gelfand's installations exist as unstable, 
ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation.

http://www.portablepalace.com

*Daily: 11:00 hrs – 18.00 hrs*

*Admission: free*

V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media. Eendrachtstraat 10 3012 XL, 
Rotterdam.

Phone: +31 (10) 206 72 72

www.v2.nl <http://www.v2.nl/>

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/Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory/ will continue from 7 February 
until 3 March. Opening hours: Wednesday – Friday: 11:00 hrs – 17:00 hrs

Extra opening Museumnacht, 3 March 2007 : 20:00 hrs – 02:00 hrs