Lightinstallation N-Polytope can be admired for longer in Amare
April 2025, article
As part of the exhibition Proximity Music the light installation N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis was presented during Rewire Festival in Amare. The work will stay in Amare for a longer period of time and can be admired at the Tribunetrap until June 2.
N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis is a dramatic light and sound environment combining cutting-edge LEDs, sound synthesis and spatialisation, and machine-learning technologies. The installation is a response to composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s–1970s Polytopes. Xenakis’s pioneering work modelled the behavior and patterns of nature and the cosmos as they fluctuated between order and disorder; it still powerfully resonates within the current moment of extreme instability in natural and artificial systems.
The lightinstallation was created by Marije Baalman and Chris Salter. Marije Baalman is an artist, researcher, and developer based in Amsterdam, creating interactive sound and light art. She is interested in how the entanglement of humans and technology and the influence of algorithms impact society and the human experience. As the author of Composing Interactions (V2_, 2022), Marije celebrates the real-time components of artistic works, such as composing processes, behaviours, and interaction modalities. Chris Salter is a US-born, Zurich-based artist and professor who creates large-scale installations, performative environments, and research that focus on and challenge human perception. They merge haptic, visual, acoustic, and other sensory phenomena. Exploring the borders between the senses, art, design, and new technologies, his immersive and physically experiential works are informed by theatre, architecture, visual art, computer music, perceptual psychology, cultural theory, and engineering, and are developed in collaboration with social scientists, engineers, artists, and designers.
As part of the joint exhibition programme Proximity Music: Echoes of Entropy, initiated by iii and Rewire, Marije and Chris brought N-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis to the Netherlands for the first time. The installation can now be seen at the Tribunetrap in Amare for an extended period until 2 June.
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