Electronic Shadow On Time Drop [VIDEO]
by The Creators Project Staff July 21, 2011
This past June, we held our first official event in Paris at the stunning (and newly reopened) digital arts museum La Gaîté lyrique. We exhibited a wide-range of multimedia installations including 72 by Trafik, Life On Mars Revisited by David Bowie, Mick Rock and Barney Clay, and Convergenze Parallele by Ernesto Klar. Among the exhibitions was Electronic Shadow’s hybrid water sculpture Time Drop, which very well could have been the most mysterious.
Naziha Mestaoui and Yacine Ait Kaci of Electronic Shadow took inspiration from the Olympic flag—specifically the intersection of the five rings representing each inhabited continent—to highlight the physical link between people of the world, as well as the figurative closeness that today’s virtual networks enable.
The duo describe the motion-triggered installation as a hydraulic system that releases drops of water into a basin that’s synched in real-time with projected visuals and sound. Depending on how fast a viewer is moving, a greater or lesser number of droplets will fall.
Find out how the installation came into fruition and why the artists believe that “when technology is hidden, something magical happens” in the video above.
Stay tuned for a recap of the entire event, coming soon.
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