project is on the wavelength: this Spanish designer and artist was at Sonar festival with his Augmented Sculpture Series. He was interviewed about this project by Bertram Niessen (the interview was published on Digimag 33 April 2008) and he now confirms his excellent works that I’ve already seen on the Internet, You Tube and his website. Pablo Valbuena’s augmented sculptures perfectly, but in a shy way, enter the architectural space; they are as they are because they can be “closed” in a corner of the room.
architectural structure in dark room, taking into consideration the audience’s perception and the eye capability to see the colour differences in the light and shadow areas. Valbuena’s installation maybe follows a precise audiovisual scheme (but I’m not sure) and it shows the great potentialities of this discipline that is a combination of design, audio-video and architecture, just like other similar projects such as Halbzeug-Surface Refinement by Visomat (presented this year at Netmage and Club Transmediale) or the wonderful Carillon Chandelier by Claudio Sinatti.
The procedure is simple but effective and elegant: light is projected on an
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