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The project was developed together with, Frank Halbig -> , Jesper Munk Jensen, and Thorbjørn Lausten -> . The installation SOL is an visual and acoustic transformation
of four datasets from the sun. They are Medium Level Solar Radiation,
various measurements of Solar Wind, the distribution of Sunspots, as well
as the Solar Magnetic Mean Field. The measurements are recorded partly
in daily rhythms, and partly in the rhythm of a solar rotation. All sets
of data correlate with one another not in a simple linear way, but by
showing complex patterns of interaction. The measured data cover a time
period of 22 years and can be perceived within one hour. This corresponds
to two sun cycles. There is a precise relationship between the data and
their visual and acoustic appearance so that the character of the data
is maintained and different dynamic behaviour can be rediscovered in the
installation. The installation consists of four video projections and
a four channel audio setup. SOL confronts central issues
of art, science, and philosophy, which are steadily gaining in importance
in an era of society’s continual move in the direction of technoimagination.
A technical representation is clearly no longer an image or a sound of
a thing or a natural, generally known phenomenon, but is instead, increasingly
becoming the only way to make complex phenomena, often encountered as
mere data, more accessible. By transforming scientific data in a clear
and comprehensible way into new media, the project SOL
would like to show that sounds and images can take on a crucial function
in the exact sciences, and how our experience of reality depends on the
interaction of symbolic forms and the development of the representation
of technology.
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