Anna Frants, CYLAND MediaLab
Programming and Robotics: Alexei Grachev
Old table lamps, nano projectors, video, motion sensors Video
Installation. Dimensions Variable 2015
On its
face, the installation of a table with desk lamps on it has no artistic
value. However, as it is often the case with this artist's
works,
we should expect the unexpected. The first surprise is that
when
we switch the lamps on, they pour out the sound and not just the light,
and the second is that the light turns out to be moving
pictures.
The tabletop comes alive with video-memories. They seem to be
countless - from a romantic poetry reading under the starry sky to a
prosaic view of the rails seen through a gap between the cars of a
moving train. Each of us could identify with at least one
such
memory, but even if not, the tabletop memories will now become our
own. When we start interacting with this installation we
expect
to see some kind of lighting. Instead, we get some kind of
enlightening. "Thanks for the memories…"