LIGHTWEAVER, 2017
projection on fabric
21 min. 6 sec., loop
TYPE
Mixed reality sculpture
ROLE
Artist / Animator
COMISSIONED BY
Azra Akšamija
TIMEFRAME
2 months
EXHIBITION
Museum of Modern Art
Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2017
Boston City Hall,
Boston, MA. USA. 2017
SERVICES
AR / XR Design Theory
Conceptual Development
- Creative Research
- ⚗️ Experimental R&D
- ️ Graphic Design
Motion Graphics
Systems Design & Spec.
- ️ Server Assembly & Setup
Installation
✨Projection Mapping
️ Photo / Video Doc.
Musical Composition
Talks
SERIES
Tale on Textile series
ABOUT
Media-augmented textile developed and animated for the exhibition “Palimpsest of ‘89” by Azra Akšamija, an artistic installation exploring the role of cultural institutions in shaping the common heritage of Yugoslavia through the lens of Sarajevo’s history.
PALIMPSEST of ’89
“ The underlying thesis is that [ Yugoslavia / Sarajevo’s ] history has been “written and rewritten” through the work of institutions that have been framing and preserving a common heritage. [ … ]
The [ … ] idea translates into a “palimpsestic carpet,” which proposes a way of thinking about the creation of heritage of the commons through the weaving of integrative and disintegrative narratives and policies related to cultural institutions. [ … ]
Carpet iconography functions like a form of storytelling and history writing. The carpet patterns of this exhibition depict the creation of a commons’ heritage through certain cultural institutions that were founded throughout various periods of Sarajevo’s history:
1. The Pre-Modern (Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman)
2. The Modern / Austro-Hungarian
3. The Modern / Socialist
4. The Post-Dayton Period (1995–2016).
Each of these periods translates into a layer of the palimpsestic carpet. [ … ] more and more symbols are added to the carpet, while others are revised or erased. The largest, central space of the exhibition focuses on the period of the War of 1992–95 as well as on the now, represented through an analog / digital carpet in the center of the space. This carpet brings together the constantly changing digital animation of all of these patterns from all exhibition rooms with the realtime crisis of the commons’ heritage today and in the future. “
– Azra Akšamija, project author, from the Boston Globe
WEAVING LOOM
Images on a textile are created one line at a time by weaving patterns into a loom with an oscillating shuttle.
CRT LINE SCAN
Images on a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen are also created one line at a time by an oscillating beam of electrons exciting a phosphor screen.
INSPIRATION
After extensive research of display technologies and their intrinsic visual subtleties, it was decided Palimpsest patterns would be animated in the style of a CRT display. The aesthetic of the scan line display in ultra-slow motion was the perfect digital analog to the physical mechanic of weaving that remains central to the work of artist Azra Akšamija.
