Materializer Industries - 'Wateromloop'

Installation built-up with te works of Sjef Meijman, Niels Niemeijer and Kor Smeenge. Works were connected by complex but 'open system' of tubes and pipes and formed a generative system.

 
dated 2003 until 2004, react to the artist (click on an image to enlarge an artwork)

Generative impulses 2003		Overview in the installation-space, de Branderij in Antwerp owned by Phil Bloom and Martin uit den Boogaard. The space inhabited a cybernetic organism kept alive by re-feeding it back generative impulses from its own system.
Cloudmachine 2004		Cloudmachine, worked on steam. It formed a closed circuit with 'Aorta' in the center of installation. The refraction of directed light on the emerging patterns inside is thrilling. Between the two glass sheets is visualized how each drop of water makes us see their will.
Atrium 2004		Atrium of the heart. To keep the installation alive basins all over the space kept filling and emptying themselves in the rithem of its mechanical heart. Series of varying sizes of basins lined up however generates non-linear behavior. It gives identity to the system.
Heart o/t installation 2003		The heart of 'Wateromloop'. It functioned as the nervecenter distributing water to all the works. Also functioned as the primary-pulse generator.
Rainpiano 2003		'Rainpiano' 'Wateromloop'. started to play notes as water passes through it. The object filles the surrounding space with a translation on what was allready there, humming and buzzing in the tanks. The pulse in the ducts is made audible now .
Fountain 2004		Fountain, the expression. Fed by the heart, feeding 'share with the fisches'
Cloudmachine 2003		Cloudmachine fed with water of wateromloop produced clouds with dimensions that were a little awkward; 100x100x2cm. These were projected into space.
To share with the fishes 2003		'To share with the fishes' by Sjef Meijman. Water is a shared mass. The psychological construction telling we are not in imediate contact with our complete foodchain through water is based on our power to neglect. This work demonstrates this fact through focus on the pysical aspect of touch
Waterstairs 2003		'Waterstairs' and the 'Aorta'. Serving water to sepperate works. Energy was put into the water through lifting it constantly to higher parts in the system.
Rain piano 2004		'Rainpiano' 'Wateromloop'. started to play notes as water passes through it. The object filles the surrounding space with a translation on what was allready there, humming and buzzing in the tanks. The pulse in the ducts is made audible now .
Share w/t Fishes 2004		By Sjef Meijman, about relativity in sharing water-seperating it.