Skagen employs modes of research and investigation to create sound and object based installations. His production is a continuos adventure and analysis reflecting the possibilities within his immediate environment. Where the rational explanations is questioned by the introduction of a phenomena, thesis or concept. Where the work can not be explained trough logic alone. But by the questioning of one’s own paradigms of beliefs. A critique to the superego and the subject and object as a divided and separate mass, rather than a unified, connected, resonate and vibrant result of the same source. A play with the illusion of history as well as the presence and potential future.
order.and.progress
sound light language & optics installation at "hit that piece of ivory there" nymusikk oslo norway
in the early beginning of the middle age leonardo of pisa, later known as fibonacci published his research concerning the numerology of repeating events found in nature. these numbers are referredto as the fibonacci sequence, the sequence stated that each number is the
sum of the two previous numbers. this sequence, if represented as a geometrical shape, was called the golden section, a common geometrical structure found in architecture, visual arts and the morphology of nature.
the repeating events builds up a structure, the structure is applied to sound and processed through an electromagnetic vibrator. this vibrator is transferring mechanical vibration to the glass window the vibrations are received as sound as the window amplifies the signal.
Light waves have a high
frequency when measured
near its source. The light
travels from this source and
stretch as the environment
that contains them expand.
A wave or vibration has the
ability to be recived as sound
if the propper conditions are
present. The conditions are
the material.
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, || repetition || 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233,
image.storage
video.documentation
high_res.jpg
low_res.jpg
audio.storage
andprogress.mp3
text
order.and.progress.pdf
time=form
stenersen museet 2006
"..in 1967 Hans Jenny made use of his own inventions crystal oscillator and tonoscope which made it possible to define the chain of events that made patterns appear in sand when the surface that contained it was vibrating. he located and measured the amplitude , frequency and duration within the vibration and was able to control all the variables himself. he made the possibility to see and hear sound at the same time. this research was called cymantics and contained the science of structure and dynamics in waves and vibrations." Stian Skagen, [concept.virus] series I.
sound signal generates image on lcd monitor.
video.documentation
time=form.pdf
[signal] was made using the same principals
signal.movie
resonate.pattern
stenersen museet 2006
a custom built sub frequency speaker cabinet is producing hundred and seven decibel in forty-five hrz. this frequency is produced by two eighteen inch hi-end speaker elements driven by a fourteen hundred watt amplifier. the resonance is reinforced and prolonged by reflecting on to its neighboring objects. the sound takes on the form of mechanical vibration and travels through the architectual structures of the building and the audience surrounding it. the frequency is made by two digital oscillators. these oscillators are in phase and therefor cause long pulses that varies from silence to vibration.
the sound signals are interpreted by a modified digital oscilloscope, the oscilloscope is projected on two opposite walls. this allows the audience to walk into the projection and be resonated by sound and light.
video.documentation
infinite.perspective
performance at Sala Beckett, La Porta 54 Barcelona.spain 2004
q. describe your use of a concept. a. concept is a system or a set of rules that trigger shape or constrict a behavior or action within a given environment. it may be a geometrical shape a formula or an equation. the concept represents the formal understanding of this environment.
in “coming through” erwin panofskys “perspective as symbolic form” was used as a fundament for constructing a concept. mathematical formulas and geometrical perspectives applied to 2 dimensional visual arts were converted and applied to sound and movement in 3 dimensional space. these forms and perspectives limited the movement to symmetrical patterns and lines in the defined space. each line
and pattern was given a frequency that was manually changed according to the movement. as the movement was inaugurated a point in perspective was established. the points and lines constructed geometrical shapes in a spatial system.
the infinite, within a space that is both continuous and homogeneous
infinite perspective within a continuous space
and a homogeneous concept
Maria Jesus Fajardo Martinez
photo.code
exhibited at SALONG100. 2004 oslo. norway
a digital photo is pixels put together in a system to form the image. the pixels is given a value, its color and place. this information is in an array. the array is compiled by s numeric code. this numeric code can be converted by its numbers to sound. the .jpg is changed to .aiff and the photo can be played back as sound. the sound was compressed and put into a mobile phone hung on the backside of the photo. when the phone was called the photo played its sound. in some museums its common to have numbers hung by different artworks. when the numbers are called the observer is played information about the work. theatricality and absorption.
