The Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia is currently exhibiting the video artwork Brilliant Noise, by British artists Semiconductor. Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor have been kind enough to share a short version of the video with us.
Brilliant Noise is a portrait of the Sun. Unlike many pictures of the sun which have been ’shopped’ to remove the impurities and noise effects present in the original footage, Semiconductor have instead used the original untouched images, to illustrate the sun replete with interference from a variety of natural and man-made sources.
The audio accompanying the piece is natural solar radio, with white noise coming from cosmic rays hitting the satellite camera’s CCD.
The overall effect is beautiful and mesmerizing, providing an intimate portrait of our most important celestial object as it actively oscillates through time.
from http://blog.artabase.net/?p=178
http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/
Out of the Light
HD floor projection with surround sound/10.00 mins/2008
Over time, celestial patterns can reveal themselves through the play of light and shadow on the world around us. Out of the Light is a CGI time based sculpture, which recreates these shadow phenomena to explore how we can make sense of the world through observation; we experience a solar eclipse as observed through the branches of a tree, the rhythm of a city as its shadows phase from days to months to years and the transit of Venus observed through the construction of simple man made tools. Viewing these events with the unaided eye allows for anomalies in the quality and nature of light which are played upon here, to explore our perceptual sensitivities
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