New Innovations - Installations NIMk projectspace

Yves Gentet ultimate hologram of LOF® Disco Pink photovoltaic cell, safety glass, theatre spotlight. Energy Conversion Device II, 2011 A hologram of a photovoltaic cell rests on a modular glass shelf. The functional properties of a solar cell, which are to transform light into energy, are reduced to a superficial portrait of the beautiful sparkle of its surface. The image can only be viewed when the hologram is brightly lit, inverting the solar cell's 'usefulness' into a seductive, wasteful reflection. The normally passive viewer takes on the role of a solar cell, actively conducting and absorbing the photonic and artistic energy of the work.

2 Executive speech prompters, 2 Philips® LCD monitors, video Look Into My Eyes (Adaptation for Double Executive Speech Prompter), 2011 A pair of opposing executive speech prompters display an adaptation of S&M guru Peter Masters' manual on erotic hypnosis, Look Into My Eyes: how to use hypnosis to bring out the best in your sex life, which play slightly out-of-sync. The Teleprompter is a theatrical machine which acts as a conduit for power. The device allows a speaker to make eye contact with a mass audience, giving the illusion of direct address. Information bounces off the glass allowing the reader/speaker to become a "medium" expressing information and power, but excluding the spectator from direct access to that information. By installing two teleprompters in opposition, it short circuits the power relationship between spectator and performer, hypnotizer and hypnotized.

Stairville MH-X25 LED Spot Moving Head, custom gobo printed with a certificate of Terrapass carbon credit purchased to offset the lifetime energy consumption of the device. Zero Impact Stairville MH-X25 LED Spot Moving Head, 2011 The piece is a continuation in an ongoing series of various types of illuminated display systems, which exist only to show the certificate which showcases their "zero impact"carbon neutrality. Carbon credits are a highly controversial method for supposedly neutralizing carbon emissions, by donating money to various companies which invest in various projects which are certified to reduce atmospheric carbon. For instance, building wind farms in India, or reforestation initiatives in Brazil. Arguably, carbon offsets are a naive, overly convenient, ineffective and possibly fraudulent method for mitigating Climate Change. Instead of asking 1st world energy hogs to change their lifestyles, we are invited to pay a little extra to For-profit carbon-credit providers, relieving our guilt but solving nothing. The use of a moving head spotlight which is intended for discotheques and special events, heightens the sense of absurdity and futility of carbon credits, and exaggerates the paradoxical utility of the Zero Impact display.