Walter Van Rijn - multimedia installation
STATEMENT
[Science Art Modulation Ellipse]
CD-R 12m43s A dialogue between science, art and public about reality using ambient sounds of workspaces and digital editing for post-production.
I collaborated with uncertainty analyst Robin Hankin (NOCS) who was able to model my manual way of drawing an ellipse with 3 foci. Hankin’s algorithm made it possible for me to draw the ellipse digitally and it also opened new areas of research and application in my creative practice.
Ambient sound recordings by M. Marks on board the RRS Discovery. Digital sounds were generated from an ellipse.
BIO
Walter van Rijn, artist, born in the Netherlands, works and lives in the U.K.
RijN is currently studying at the Winchester School of Art - MA Fine Art by Project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He is questioning identity and place through interaction with different technologies.The main mediums are installation, sound, video, CAD modelling and digital print. The audience in Van Rijn's installations has an active role which allows them to take part in the actualisation of the work.
Selected Exhibitions: 2006: Wormhole Saloon, showed installation ACCESS DENIED, Whitechapel Gallery London. 2006/7: 60x60 Vox Novus, New York U.S. Selected Ellipse 5.3 to be part of the 60x60 project 2006: SoundLAB Edition IV [http://soundlab.newmediafest.org] showing Pigment on Bark. 2006: Drawing Spaces: Picturing Knowledge. Hartley Library Southampton U.K. Investigates and tests the potential of drawing as a meeting place between people and disciplines. 2005: Strange Strolls. A sound project for the Fremantle Festival, Western Australia.
