Chetan Mangat
FLICKER FOREVER
FF is a narrative driven buoyant video and light sculpture that is interested in preserving its own creation myth and providing light.
http://www.flickerforever.com
Light pollution in the world today is an outcome largely of the economic forces at play. If a person can pay for power they can install a light. Although the same is true for most other things – light does not generate as much criticism because of its ability to entertain and hypnotize. If you have ever been to a nightclub, Hiro Yamagata installation, Times Square or a night fair in your local town, you cannot disagree that without light these spaces would be less impressive.
Flicker Forever is an installation that is informed by a short story written by myself that involves an object named Photinus. The story is a fantastical narrative based in the future and addresses the creation of Photinus as well as its many purposes. The three reasons for Photinus’s existence are to destroy light (EMP), inform through light (LCD) and provide light (LED).
The act of Photinus’s creation and its destruction of urban lights is presented in an animation, which is displayed on a LCD screen - embedded inside it. The third and final purpose of providing light manifests itself through lights embedded on the sides that turn on once the animation is finished playing. Ideally the installation would involve a room with water in which Photinus can float and spread a beam of light. The entire story is finally represented as a video sculpture that is capable of floating and generating its own power through photovoltaic cells.
The animation is made using Maya and rendered out with Maxwell render. The piece is 4X3ft in size and is built using the CNC routing process. The material is foam coated with epoxy resin. Within this object is embedded a 5-inch LCD screen and a motion sensor system. The sensor triggers the video to play when there is movement around the object. The entire object is solar powered.
My research involved looking at the works of artists Joseph Beuys, olafur elliason, László Moholy-Nagy, Matthew Barney, Rafael hemmer to name a few.
art gallerys
Gallery Space
Ideally I would like to see this thing floating in water in a controlled space. The scene would be set for a time immediately after a tidal flood.
As people walk into the room the screen would light up and display the story about the creation of this piece and then the screen would turn off and the lights would turn on. Spreading a beam over the waters surface
At ITP I would have the same interaction, but on a raised pedestal.
foam, resin, solar, arduino, leds, lcd,
The form is made from foam using a CNC process. it is approximately 4 ft long and 2.5 ft wide and solar powered.
Flicker Forever is an installation that is informed by a short story written by myself that involves an object named Photinus. The story is a fantastical narrative based in the future and addresses the creation of Photinus as well as its many purposes. The three reasons for Photinus’s existence are to destroy light (EMP), inform through light (LCD) and provide light (LED).
The act of Photinus’s creation and its destruction of urban lights is presented in an animation, which is displayed on a LCD screen - embedded inside it. The third and final purpose of providing light manifests itself through lights embedded on the sides that turn on once the animation is finished playing. Ideally the installation would involve a room with water in which Photinus can float and spread a beam of light. The entire story is finally represented as a video sculpture that is capable of floating and generating its own power through photovoltaic cells.
The animation is made using Maya and rendered out with Maxwell render. The piece is 4X3ft in size and is built using the CNC routing process. The material is foam coated with epoxy resin. Within this object is embedded a 5-inch LCD screen and a motion sensor system. The sensor triggers the video to play when there is movement around the object. The entire object is solar powered.
My research involved looking at the works of artists Joseph Beuys, olafur elliason, László Moholy-Nagy, Matthew Barney, Rafael hemmer to name a few.
art gallerys
Gallery Space
Ideally I would like to see this thing floating in water in a controlled space. The scene would be set for a time immediately after a tidal flood.
As people walk into the room the screen would light up and display the story about the creation of this piece and then the screen would turn off and the lights would turn on. Spreading a beam over the waters surface
At ITP I would have the same interaction, but on a raised pedestal.
foam, resin, solar, arduino, leds, lcd,
The form is made from foam using a CNC process. it is approximately 4 ft long and 2.5 ft wide and solar powered.