Mechanical disk casting cyan magenta yellow shadow patterns

RGB|CMY Kinetic

Mechatronic op-art stage performance

2015 · Barcelona

RGB|CMY Kinetic is an audio visual-mechatronic installation. The inspiration for the work stems from the duality of additive and subtractive colours in the way we perceive form. A white circle of light and the surrounding darkness serve as a canvas for a kinetic choreography, where an array of floating mechanical disks cast shadows and reflect light.

The movement was developed in unison with the musical composition together with Olafur Arnalds: With midi signal as translation, the music drives the movement and the movement controls the sound.

Wide view of RGB light patterns projected on the floor

Mechanical disks casting white shadow patterns

Vertical closeup showing RGB color separation

Caustic light patterns from disks projected on floor

Triptych showing different color compositions of the installation

Technical overview diagram of the mechatronic system

Wide view of the performance with audience

RGB CMY Kinetic documentation by Flavio Coddou

$Mechanical disk detail showing light refraction$

Disk detail with colour separation patterns

Disk detail with shadow and light interplay

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With ART+COM, Olafur Arnalds, MKT AG. Special Thanks to Max Göttner and Christian Riekoff for the audio engineering inspired motion control.

The work was commissioned by Fundacio Sorigue and Sonar PLANTA, as a temporary performance presented during the 2015 Sonar festival in Barcelona.

My role: Artistic Direction