Impakt Event: Joost Rekveld #37  His films have been shown in a wide range of festivals and venues for experimental, animated or otherwise short films. He has often collaborated on theatre projects, often with dance group Emio Greco|PC or music theatre ensemble De Veenfabriek. He has been putting together many programmes about the history of abstract animation and light art, culminating in the 9th edition of Sonic Acts: Sonic Light 2003. In 2004 he curated '4D in the Filmmuseum' a large exhibition, series of screenings and lectures for the Dutch Filmmuseum. Joost Rekveld is the head of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague. Film #37 is part of Rekveld's ongoing exploration of the propagation and diffraction of light through holes and grids. The inspiration for #37 came from X-ray diffraction, a tool used to investigate the structure of crystals, in which a narrow beam of x-ray waves produces a regular interference pattern after percolating through the symmetrical arrangement of molecules in a crystal. X-ray diffraction enabled the discovery of so called 'quasicrystals' in 1984 and enabled the profound transformation crystallography has seen since then. These ideas and tools led Rekveld to develop his own flavor of what could be called 'artificial physics': a simulated universe with a variable number of dimensions, inhabited by particles that act on their neighbours and organize themselves into constellations with a varying level of symmetry. Many pre-modern theories consider crystals as an intermediate form between the mineral, vegetative and animal kingdoms, an idea that acquires new resonances in the light of recent developments in the fields of artificial chemistry and artificial biology and artificial life. These new fields, with their hypothetical universes and 'what-if' scenarios explore a kind of simulation that is far beyond the kind of photo-realistic simulations seen in many industrial computer animations. Instead they have some aspects in common with the way early abstract painters, filmmakers and light artists were developing a language to express hitherto unexpressable aspects of the universe through direct sensual experience. Date: Wednesday 28th of January, 19:00hours Location: Cinema, 't Hoogt, Hoogt 4, Utrecht Entrance: 8,- Euro (CJP/U-pas, 65+, student: 7 Euro) Reservations: 't Hoogt 030-2328388 /info@hoogt.nl |
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