Encounters

Art & Science II: Elements of Art and Science: THU September 3-SUN September 6, 2015, 10 AM-8 PM, MON September 7, 2015, 10 AM-6 PM
Ars Electroncia Center (2nd floor, Foyer)

Prix Forum V – Residency Artists: SAT September 5, 2015, 4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Ursulinensaal in OÖ Kulturquartier

María Ignacia Edwards works with equilibrium, the lightness and weightlessness of objects that she brings into balance by deploying their own weight or counterweights. Though, at first glance, her works are perceived as purely aesthetic, artistic objects, it soon dawns on those who behold them that these constructions are the result of elaborate mathematical and physical calculations. Based on her experience at the ESO observatories La Silla and ALMA, María created a “Mobile Instrument”, as the artist calls it, which is able to capture the movement of pieces located at distant places by a musical mechanism as a reference to time and the motion of the universe. She is connecting points for tracing a scale constellation, a map, translated in the walkable city space.

This project has been realized within the European Digital Art and Science Network in collaboration with ESO and the Ars Electronica Residency Network.