"Moon"

convex acrylic glass projection surface, laser scanner

The light works use laser scans and a moving line of light to simulate real, authentic movement patterns in our perception. Yet it is an abstract silhouette, and only the movement define its authenticity. For the fast rotating white light scanner, a special software/hardware has been developed to display the graphics in real-time. The merging of fugitive imagination and perception results in icons. Whatever we perceive, it immediately manifests itself in our memory. Our memory tries to synchronize the visual information with real representations, and constructs an image based on the individual experience. Yet they are only traces of lines, abstract symbols that reflect only one level of reality in our memory.
(Stephan Reusse)