Square? or not square?

To be Square
or not to be Square ?

I don`t care
this is not a Square

it only seems to be..

jannuary 2010

MM1

MM1 from Matthias Jäger on Vimeo.

This is a small video I did with Google Sketchup. It’s only a surface with a rastered, yellow pattern. The camera is slowly moving and changing the point of view. Due to the overlay of different rasters (the screen raster of the computer monitor & the yellow raster) comes the mighty moire effect into force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern

Grid survey

This survey for a public space was created together with Matthias Jäger and Conni Pirker during an ideas competition for the cityscape renewal of Salzburg’s community Strasswalchen.

We created a grid that fluently conforms to spatial structures and movement.

Competition entry is coming soon…

Wire Head

This is a work I made some time ago, but didn´t manage to post it so far – well, here it is.
It´s a head made out of wire netting (“Hasengitter”), about 70 cm high.
Actually I planned to make a complete human sculpture; maybe it will be completed someday…

Raster #1 (TU Graz)

r# 1r# 2r# 3

At my University, the TU Graz, there are several poster walls, stuffed with ugly posters. I descided to do something with one of these walls. First I created some kind of op-art pattern with black and white circles, prited it out on DIN A3 sheets and tiled it together with glue. The pice is giving some really nice optical effects when you are passing it with different speed, it’s also producing a morree effect on digital cameras when you try to make a picture of it.
Link: http://tugraz.at

MyRaster1.0

I call MySelf Column Major Tom! Standing in a row, shifting

in the most peculiar way.

[60x60px] ON PLASTER

“Unter Erweiterter Realität (von engl. Augmented Reality) versteht man die computergestützte Erweiterung der Realitätswahrnehmung. Diese Information kann alle menschlichen Sinnesmodalitäten ansprechen, häufig wird jedoch mit erweiterter Realität nur die visuelle Darstellung von Informationen gemeint. (…) Die virtuelle Realität und die Realität sind miteinander kombiniert (teilweise überlagert). (…) Erweiterte Realität könnte in praktisch allen Bereichen des Alltags zum Einsatz kommen.”

Structured (digital) light merged with built matter – an augmented material study which evoke throughout a series of projections in public spaces. The pixel (still) forms the smallest entity of a grid (raster) produced by a digital projector and the amount of pixel (resolution) is being raised by technological development to gain more precision and realistic images. Projection-screens are produced to generate perfect conditions for displaying the thrown light points and let them appear as one single (motion) picture for the human eye…

[60x60px] ON PLASTER is a first output of a series of materials merged with 3600 of those light points arranged in the uniform shape of a square featuring virtually all colors at the same time (r=255, g=255, b=255) – The “perfect little square structure” of the pixels produced by the machine in combination with the “organic rough surface” of the physical material results in new patterns. The interest in this “material study” evoke out of projections within given / found situations – throwing light on facades, floors, streets, trees and everything else that can be found in public spaces. Regard it as sort of detailing and learning to know ones instruments and their properties…. [work in progress]

BTC-5197

Gipsabguss eines Einbauteiles aus einer Tastatur. Dieses Teil der Tastatur, mit seinem Muster, das der Anordnung der Tasten entspricht, sehe ich als Schnittstelle zwischen Mensch und dem prägnantesten Produkt seines Willens zur Ordnung, dem Computer. Durch den Abguss und das verwendete Material Gips wollte ich auf eine scheinbare Natürlichkeit und einen Bezug zum Mineral hinweisem, die sich letztlich als Gedankenblase erweist und sich auch dem Raster beugen muss. (Auch die um 90° verdrehte Anordnung macht das Erkennen einer Form – nämlich der des vertrauten Eingabegerätes – extrem schwer)

zebraster

inland