Artist Statement

June 9 – August 21, Santa Mònica Art Centre, from the Beep Collection. Public Event.

LED screen, electronic components, metal structure, computer. Dimensions: variable.

Gust is a screen made with flexible LED tiles, a technology that allows the artist to create curved screens. The generative animation reacts in real-time to local wind speed and direction.

The artist has observed a substantial change in our relationship with screens. From small wrist devices that monitor our biorhythms to monumental LED billboards that wrap around buildings, we are surrounded by their flickering and bright surfaces. Screens are acquiring a new materiality, a membrane quality that extends over multiple surfaces, objects and buildings. The “Echo” series responds to this new concept of screen-skin.

“Echo’s” screens seem to melt, drained by our overzealous need to represent the world. In their undoing, they discover a new role as creatures that no longer represent, but sense their ecosystem. Connected to the Web, they perceive planetary phenomena that escape our sensory possibilities, and yet are so vital to our survival as a species. (source: Vimeo.com)

http://www.danielcanogar.com/work/gust-small

• Daniel Canogar was born in Madrid, Spain (1964) to a Spanish father and an American mother. Photography was his earliest medium of choice, receiving a M.A. from NYU at the International Center of photography in 1990, but he soon became interested in the possibilities of the projected image and installation art. He has created permanent public art installations with LED screens. http://www.danielcanogar.com/bio