VEAG, «VEAG media façade», 1999
PLASMA 13/05 | © VEAG

5 vertical and 13 horizontal windows or wall segments articulate the façade and produce an L-shape. The idea is that rhythmical and optical impulses should flow along this shape from top to bottom or from left to right. Individual images move like waves from window to window at intervals. The background is dark at first, then a red beam of glowing energy thrusts through it. Even before this reaches the last window, individual spheres seem to erupt from the light impulse. The next surge of energy makes the 'fireballs' fade into blue; they are then transformed into apparently metallic masses that take on new shapes with each new wave of current. A serial form is always developed in linear sequence, and this turns additionally around its own axis. But the movement phases are slightly held back from window to window. The film loop has another dramatic element as well as the pulsating rhythm: towards the end the forms enter into unison, and thus a resonance that finally brings the flow of energy to a standstill. The images disappear, so that they can develop a new creative act from nothing a little later.