Portal (2008)
James Clar is an American visual artist who uses technology as a medium to critique the dissociative affects of technology itself.
James Clar, media art, lighting art, light art, pop art, interactive art, led art, minimal, installation, 3d cube, jamesclar, light and space, new media, American visual artist, medium, dissociative, disruptive technology, technology
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Portal

 

(2008)
3 m x 3 m x 3 m
Diffusion screen, Side emitting fiber optic
Installation

 

‘Portal’ creates a doorway from a diffuser screen and has abstract lines of light that travel back and forth through the door, bouncing around the room.

 

In architecture, a doorway represents the transition from one space to another. “Portal” visually displays this moment of change as a 2D plane using the diffuser screen. As viewers watch the light pass through the screen the clean lines diffuse and turn fuzzy.

 

Additionally, a sensor was set up at the doorway of the actual gallery space. So when visitors entered the gallery the light from “Portal” changed to a different color, signifying their transition from the outside space to the inside gallery.

 

Created as an installation for Roger Tator Galerie at Superflux in Lyon, France. December 2008