© carsten nicolai, courtesy: Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig/Berlin
milch (50hz)
| Artist | Carsten NICOLAI |
|---|---|
| Year | 2000 |
| Material/ Technique | cibachrome print mounted on aluminum |
| Size/ Duration | H89 × W70.5cm |
| Copyright Notice | © carsten nicolai courtesy: Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig/Berlin |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2003（作品購入年月日：2003/03/31） |
| Description | Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, former East Germany (now Germany) in 1965. Lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz. As well as being active as a visual artist, Carsten Nicolai is also a sound artist and cofounder of the record label “raster noton.” Nicolai, who studied landscape design at university, views phenomena not as separate entities but as a composite whole and pursues the creation of a new realm by combining various existing genres such as painting, sculpture, architecture, sound, the natural sciences, and philosophy. In recent years he has unveiled a series of laboratory-like pieces in which he offers the audience a visual/audio experience by transforming space. "realistic", which consists of a microphone, tape recorder, magnetic tape, polaroid photographs and drawing, is an installation work in which all manner of sound within the exhibition space is recorded via a highly sensitive microphone onto a tape recorder whose erase function has been disabled. Because the tape loops are only the length of a single revolution, noise is continuously recorded over the top of previously recorded matter. The tape is replaced at regular intervals, but instead of being played, the recorded tape is hung on the wall visualizing a new form of memory. "telefunken" is a work consisting of various digital sounds comprising noise and pulse sounds created by the artist as well as various wave patterns screened on three black television monitors installed above eye level. These are icons that are generated when sound from CDs is fed into the monitors via the video inputs. milch is a series of photographs that serve as a visual record of a scientific experiment showing how sound is caused by vibrations in the air. The geometric patterns that appear on the surface of the milk which vibrates in response to sound frequencies, differ. In all of these works, Nicolai is asking questions of us concerning the relationship between information and human perception. |
NOTES
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