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Luminous Point
interactive
dvd, video projection, 2006
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"Luminous
Point" & "Occurrence
on Broadway & Columbus"
Alexander
Hahn
September 21, 2006
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Luminous
Point
interactive dvd, video projection
2006
Luminous Point is an investigation of memory - both human
and artificial. Navigating per remote control, the viewers
explore a digital recreation of the artist's Lower East Side
tenement apartment - a virtual "wunderkammer" and
archive, in which distant places and different times, personal
biography and cultural history, fact and fiction all coexist
just like in the mental space of memory. Effortlessly changing
between microscopic and macroscopic dimensions, the visitors
pass through a labyrinth of spaces, descend into subterranean
worlds, lift off skywards like dreamers, free from the binds
of gravity and linear time. Luminous Point seamlessly combines
video and computer generated material, creating a new form
of electronic work, a hybrid composed of elements from narrative
and documentary video/film, computer game, virtual reality,
and photography.
Occurrence
on Broadway & Columbus
video floor projection
2005
Starting point for Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus is
an aerial view of a Manhattan street corner. Using computer
composition, the original video is transformed into a perfectly
staged choreography, where all the bustling urbanites are
caught in an endless loop.
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Alexander
Hahn, born in Rapperswil, Switzerland, is an Electronic
Media Artist who has been working in this domain of art
since 1976. Hahn, member and fellow at different international
art institutions, for instance the DAAD in Berlin, has
been touring the world with his exhibitions, inspiring
and getting inspired “I lived in Rome, Berlin, Warsaw
and Zurich… in all these places I kept extensive
electronic, possibly sometime soon photonic records, focusing
closer on their protagonist light: in various guises,
optical and physical, stimulator of senses and bringer
of memory and dreams”. Hahn exhibited his electronic
art at places like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum
of Modern Art in New York, and the Kunsthaus Zurich, just
to name a few. He also participated in international video
festivals, such as the "Worldwide Video Festival"
in Amsterdam, "Locarno Video Art Festival" in
Switzerland, and the "Siggraph" in USA. |
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