Featuring at Sydney's VIVID Festival, AXIOM is the latest creation from AIRBAG's resident installation artist, Kit Webster.
AXIOM
breaks conventions by combining light, music, geometrics, animation and
space to blur the distinction between what is 'illumination' and what
is 'form'. It is deliberately conceived to challenge the biological
limits of our senses.
Webster describes the experience as "a combination of abstract
choreography and an exploration into the interactions of digital and
physical space, its relation to time and its effect on sensory
perception - challenging our biological limits."
Utilising
cutting-edge event technologies and construction techniques
in
unorthodox ways, this large-scale edifice of light is designed in an
abstract archway configuration. This acts as a canvas for a sequence of
custom animations and lighting movements that are specifically designed
to follow the contours of the sculptural form.
Standing in front
of the work, viewers can see the animation interacting with the
structure, and can wander through and get up close and personal to
experience the collision of sight and sound and really feel where
animation and physical form interact.
The work is further
enhanced by an evolving synaesthetic rhythmic soundscape - where
stimulation of one sense leads to a response in another. It pulses in
and out of phase with a hypnotic meditative overtone, paced to the
movements of light.
"I like pushing the parameters of software
and creating sequences that unfold from a stream of consciousness and
then opening it up for people to walk inside it." says Webster.
AIRBAG
Managing Partner, Adrian Bosich couldn't imagine a more fitting forum
for Kit's talent to be recognised at.
Says Bosich: "Kit is prolific, and deeply
interested in a diverse range of User Experiences. He's looking at
projects which include kinetics, robotics, motion tracking, VR,
projection mapping, holographic technologies, and flexible LED displays.
He creates work that people are drawn to, and want to engage with."
AXIOM
is on display at The Rocks, in Sydney from May 26th - June 17th.