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MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

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L A B [A U ]<br />

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LAb[au] ( = laboratory for architecture and<br />

A Lakensestraat 104 urbanism) is an art studio found in 1997, based in<br />

1 000 Brussels Brussels, Belgium, and constituted of Els Vermang,<br />

T +32 (0)2 219 65 55 Manuel Abendroth and Jerome Decock. LAb[au] is<br />

E lab-au@labau.com concerned with the construct of ‘space’ and the way<br />

W lab-au.com<br />

it can be planned, experienced and conceptualised<br />

in an information age.<br />

The group name merges a phonetic and a written meaning; that of<br />

the French / Dutch pronunciation ‘labo’ and that of the German word ‘bau’<br />

referring to its projects’ experimental approach (labo) and construct (bau).<br />

This double meaning crossing oral and written media, stands for a conceptual,<br />

methodological and artistic framework examining the influence of advanced<br />

technologies on art; its stands for an artistic thinking of art as media.<br />

LAb[au] qualifies its practice as MetaDeSIGN, which is characterised by<br />

the setting of systems, among which LAb[au] is today mainly active within the<br />

interactive, reactive, generative and performative realm.<br />

LAb[au]’s art is part of public and private art collections worldwide<br />

and has been exhibited in some of ‘s worlds most prestigious art venues and<br />

happenings. LAb[au] was one of 2009’s nominees for Belgium’s ‘Prix de la Jeune<br />

Peinture Belge’. Their work has been numerously published and their recent<br />

monography ‘MetaDeSIGN’ (ISBN: 978-2-84066-404-8) is published by ‘Les<br />

Presses du Reel’.<br />

5 9<br />

Framework f5fi5fi5 (2007-2009)<br />

Lumino, kinetic sculpture ed.1, 5 networked<br />

computers, LED’s, 250 servo motors, 50<br />

infrareds sensors, aluminium, plexi, Computer<br />

programming basic & C++, 1020 fi 85 fi 215 cm

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