MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
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 />
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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 />
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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