S t u d i o F i v e B e e k m a n

sound and intermedia gallery

Maria Blondeel

E (stutt) 11.8.99 (Solar eclipse and square waves)

an audio-visual installation

Saturdays

2 - 9 PM

October 16 - 30, 1999

Project E(stutt)11.8.99 can be seen as an experiment focusing on the cycle of giving and taking light, a natural process present in many organisms. It is also a project which artistically refers to our senses and, in a subtle way, visualises the presence of the 'common light'.

From the beginning of the total solar eclipse that was visible in Stuttgart on 11 august 1999 at 11.12 am until 13.30 am I made an audio recording of a light interactive sound installation and its environment...

Maria Blondeel (Halle, 1963)

Maria Blondeel (Gent, Belgium) is an artist working with audio-visual media. Since 1985 she combines sound, photographic materials, interactive systems and computer applications. Through technology she confronts matter, situations and people with sound, light and motion. This results in spatial installations in which, within a number of fixed co-ordinates, situations originate determined by aleatory factors: the motion or volume of a visitor, good or bad weather...

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web site: users.pandora.be/MariaBlondeel

Experimental Intermedia Gent: www.experimentalintermedia.be

e-mail address: maria.blondeel@pandora.be