Matthijs Munnik creates large-scale installations that incorporate light, sound and on one occasion, worms.
Munnik’s most recent works are entitled Common Structures and Lightscapes. They are both part of a series of installations that investigate optical illusions and hallucinations caused by flickering light. This series, Citadels, was inspired by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville’s Dream Machine, a flickering, stroboscopic device that creates visual stimuli. The Dream Machine was viewed with eyes closed, which allows the user to experience patterns of colour as a result of the strobe effect. Citadels continues to explore these effects, but allow the viewer to keep their eyes open, creating “a layer of vivid patterns instantly laid over reality”. Munnik’s Microscopic Opera bridges the boundaries between art and science. Five different, mutated worms move in different ways. Their movement is filmed and shown live on five screens, whilst their movements are translated, in real time, into the sound of an opera.
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Matthijs Munnik creates large-scale installations that incorporate light, sound and on one occasion, worms.Munnik’s most recent works are entitled Common Structures and Lightscapes. They are both part of a series of installations that investigate optical illusions and hallucinations caused by flickering light. This series, Citadels, was inspired by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville’s Dream Machine, a flickering, stroboscopic device that creates visual stimuli. The Dream Machine was viewed with eyes closed, which allows the user to experience patterns of colour as a result of the strobe effect. Citadels continues to explore these effects, but allow the viewer to keep their eyes open, creating “a layer of vivid patterns instantly laid over reality”. Munnik’s Microscopic Opera bridges the boundaries between art and science. Five different, mutated worms move in different ways. Their movement is filmed and shown live on five screens, whilst their movements are translated, in real time, into the sound of an opera...
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