Dark Matter – One Million Years Later

© Monica Studer, Christoph van den Berg, photo: Courtesy Nicolas Krupp gallery
Artist/s
Monica Studer & Christoph van den Berg
Title
Dark Matter – One Million Years Later
Copy Number
183
Medium / Material / Technic
computer generated animation, loop
Dimensions / Duration
10 min.
Admin Title
D7 Paragraph: r17_text / GPC_ID: 12177
Layout
flex-row-9-3 reverse

At the exhibition from January 10, 2018 to March 18, 2018

The »Dark Matter« video is a digital animation. Based on the idea of the mass of hypothetical dark matter, an invisible component of the physical universe, which has not yet been confirmed, the work pretends that a kind of »digital matter« exists. The 10 min. video loop shows a primordial soup of colorful structures in constant transformation, which are entirely generated by shader algorithms and 3-D rendered.

Even though they seem to be based on microscopic material, or on telescopic views of distant galaxies, these images can not be related to a nonambiguous, real-world origin. The impression of creation in process is captivating; beautiful on the one hand, yet disconcerting at the same time because of the strangeness of its weirdly amorphous surfaces.

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