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New Installation Turns Waves Into Vibrant Color Bursts

Motion designer Robert Seidel's newest installation uses water as its canvas.

German motion designer and projection mapping maestro, Robert Seidel, is known for debuting his biology-influenced abstractions onto a variety of disparate surfaces. His project, Scrape, used vibrant LEDs on Seoul Square's media canvas, while his work titled FOLDS included a bed of colors projected on the plaster casts of 19th century sculptures.

For his new exhibition, Advection, Seidel has picked another intriguing surface on which to display his opalescent designs: water.

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The installation, which premiered on September 27th at the Lichtsicht Biennale in Bad Rothenfelde, Germany, consists of "visual études" illuminated on a constantly-warping body of water that erupts from a fountain.

Seidel noted that these light-based vignettes are "interconnected with both the circadian rhythms of their natural surroundings as well as the meteorological nuances of seasonal change from autumn to winter." The light patterns will even change their density, texture and brightness based on these factors, while displaying alongside "skeletal" music and the sounds of water rippling.

Advection strives to be a modernist take on associative drawings or in-motion paintings, and the artist has coined the term "plasmatic spatial system" for his work, as the canvas is cosistently re-shaping like a splotch of the most vibrant blood plasma on a piece of glass.

No two projection loops will look exactly the same, but each will capture viewers' gazes like a mirage in the desert. The fog machines will only heighten this feeling of visual-based seduction.

This installation will be running until January 5th, and we can only imagine what Seidel will pick as his next canvas.

Images via Seidel's website.

@zachsokol