This piece by Oxoc Ah looks like something out of a mad scientist’s laboratory; mysterious apparatus with glowing beams traveling between them. I don’t see any deep message here, but it’s fun to look at and the execution of the idea is good.
I have included two photographs to show a problem in the current RC viewer. The top one was taken with “Snapshot to Disk” with “High-res Snapshot” enabled; it’s a nice view of the framework of this piece but loses most of the point of it, because the glow doesn’t appear in the photo. The second one is a screenshot, cropped to take out the UI elements; that’s the way you would see the piece in your viewer — but it’s only half the size in each direction, because I can’t take advantage of the “high-res snapshot” feature in the Advanced menu. It turns out to be the same reason that Selavy’s recent playground space looked different in photos, it’s now in the JIRA as VWR-8033.
Even the better photo doesn’t show the dynamic nature of this work, so you’ll just have to go look for yourself!
I got this message from the artist in response to my question about this work: ” its a aperature to make hot water .for example for tea or a instant soup.the name in my inventory is “laser machine extended super super” :)”
Left by jvanb on July 6th, 2008