Actualization

Actualization weaves tension between mind and space, revealing how meaning emerges and reality takes form in the patterns we choose to believe. Actualization is an audiovisual piece that uses laser and mirrors to create vectors of light, shaped as geometries that continually morph and transform. Through coordinated motion, it creates an image of the future; perpetuated by technology, yet illusive and ungraspable. The work uses a spatial sound composition to immerse us into recorded events, like the rover Perseverance’s recordings of wind on Mars, or Saturn V spaceships taking off. The sound is real, but not actually happening. It is juxtaposed by an image that feels surreal, a mirage, that is happening in front of your eyes.

SPECS

Glass, Linear Actuators, Laser, Computer, Speakers

CREDITS

Concept and realization by Lumus Instruments Sound by Max Frimout Laminated glass by Van Dijken Glas Presented at Art Rotterdam (TEC ART), Monopol Berlin and Dark Rooms Berlin

Actualization I by Martijn Kuyvenhoven TEC ART Art Rotterdam
Actualization II Monopol by Martijn Kuyvenhoven
Actualization II Monopol OF NOW Martijn Kuyvenhoven

“That's all it is: information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy.” – Batou in Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Polynode Katoenhuis art rotterdam tec art Martijn Kuyvenhoven
Polynode Katoenhuis art rotterdam tec art Martijn Kuyvenhoven

Actualization is shaped as a collection of technical tools moving an ungraspable shape of light. Futurism in motion, what we see has no function other than allowing us to imagine the impossible.

Actualization I Art Rotterdam Martijn Kuyvenhoven
Actualization I Art Rotterdam Martijn Kuyvenhoven

To make actual is to bring into existence. It is the act of applying tension between physical space and ones cognition, giving meaning to otherwise meaningless patterns.

Lumus
Instruments

Lumus
Instruments
Lumus Instruments is a studio for light, sound and spatial structure. We design and build installation systems that translate computational processes into physical experience.

Lumus Instruments is a studio for light, sound and spatial structure. We design and build installation systems that translate computational processes into physical experience.

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