Experience art at the boundaries of light sound and space. Thin Air explores the hidden complexities that shape the world we live in. Using digital technology and large-scale installation, international artists have transformed the spaces of the Beams until 4th June 2023.Featuring work by contemporary artists including 404.zero, James Clar, Robert Henke, Kimchi and Chips with Rosa Menkman, Matthew Schreiber, S E T U P and UCLA Arts Conditional Studio.
James Clar is an artist who works with light and technology. He is interested in how new media technologies shape human behaviour. Many of his works play with perception using sculptural elements that appear to warp between dimensions, using a wide range of materials and systems, such as multi-channel video installations, lasers, LEDs, and 3D printed elements. He combines these elements to create complex narratives that reference mythology and global history, while questioning our engagement with digital culture. Clar’s work has been included in exhibitions at Glucksman Museum, Dublin, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Sam Francis Museum and MACBA, Barcelona and SeMA, Seoul, and the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
Schreiber is a multi-disciplinary artist best known for his large-scale laser light sculptures. Visitors are often invited to enter the environments he creates, and interact physically with his work. Interested in how physics, technology and perception can alter our experience of the world, he reimagines light and space to explore unseen forces. Recurring subjects within Schreiber’s work include novelty, the occult, and spectacle. Schreiber has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at Cornell University and the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale. His work has been included in group exhibitions at MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, and Galerie Almine Rech in Paris.
404.zero is a collaboration between the artists Kristina Karpysheva and Alexandr Letsius. The duo specialises in real-time, generative, and code-based art, which is presented in large-scale installations, performance and music. They combine noise with randomised algorithms to stimulate visceral and awe-inspiring reactions. Through their use of digital technology, they question the power structures of the Anthropocene and global politics, revealing them as invisible yet impregnable environments of the contemporary condition. The duo’s work has been shown at venues around the world, including Prague, Mexico City, Seoul, Lima, San Francisco and in New York’s Times Square. They have shown in festivals and exhibitions including MUTEK, Gamma Festival, Electric Castle, Japan Media Arts Festival and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 404.zero is a collaboration between the artists Kristina Karpysheva and Alexandr Letsius. The duo specialises in real-time, generative, and code-based art, which is presented in large-scale installations, performance and music. They combine noise with randomised algorithms to stimulate visceral and awe-inspiring reactions. Through their use of digital technology, they question the power structures of the Anthropocene and global politics, revealing them as invisible yet impregnable environments of the contemporary condition. The duo’s work has been shown at venues around the world, including Prague, Mexico City, Seoul, Lima, San Francisco and in New York’s Times Square. They have shown in festivals and exhibitions including MUTEK, Gamma Festival, Electric Castle, Japan Media Arts Festival and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
The UCLA Arts Conditional Studio is an arts collective composed of researchers and students within the School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California Los Angeles. The studio aims to address the technological, political, social, and artistic consequences of computation by bringing together practitioners to teach and learn, collaborate and comprehend, use and misuse the technology that surrounds us. Their work creates a playful space for participants to engage algorithms common in computation and computer graphics. The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture was founded in 1939 as a centre for interdisciplinary art in Los Angeles. Notable alumni include John Baldessari, Mary Kelly and Paul McCarthy.
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