Heartbeat of the Universe: Green pulsating lines that illuminate facades in Venice, Baltimore and New York with the help of a high-power laser bear witness to the most distant worlds. It's hard to believe, but these extraordinary shapes, reminiscent of brain waves or stock market curves, represent the oldest colours in the universe, recorded with a special instrument from the Hubble Space Telescope.
This shortcut between science, conceptual art, light art and ideas of colour field painting is the idea of the German conceptual artist and composer Tim Otto Roth. His laser projections interact in different ways with the sites and the visitors.
But scientists are also enthusiastic. The ESA project manager Atonella Nota at Space Telescope Science Institute summarizes the colla6oration with Tim Otto Roth that it allowed to reestablish an equilibrium I partially lost, to appreciate in a deeper way the beauty of data I am working on. It has reinforced that my role, as a scientist, is not only to find the answer, but to communicate the same sense of wonder to all people. (cited from Colliding Worlds 2014, p. 130)
detail of the laser projection on the Hayden Sphere, Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History (credit: Tim Otto Roth; AMNH)
"From the Distant Past" was presented for the very first time in Autumn 2010 in the heart of Venice at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in occasion of the third Hubble Space Telescope conference. The premiere in the U.S. took place at the Maryland Science Center in September 2011. Two months later the light art exhibit was presented at the American Museum of Natural History in of New York City.
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recent related publications:
3 July 2020
Roth, Tim Otto; Scheurmann, Konrad: Spectral Revision – a colourful conversation,
in: Science and Art: The Contemporary Painted Surface (Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing) 2020, pp. 390–403.
December 2017
Roth, Tim Otto; Scheurmann, Konrad: Spektrale Revisionen – ein Gespräch,
in: GesprächsStoff Farbe (Böhlau) 2017, pp. 214–223.
July 2014
Colliding Worlds - How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art by Arthur I. Miller has apperared. The book also features From the Distant Past (pp. 128-130).
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view from 81st street: laser projection on the Hayden Sphere, Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History (credit: Tim Otto Roth; AMNH) |
