Where: University Library
Description
Members of the KAUST university are invited to participate in a photographic project to create an installation using slit-scan technic by Adam Magyar.
On 13 January, approximately 300 students will walk together and become part of a unique photograph of the community of KAUST. The pictures will be exhibited the following week during WEP along with other works of his series entitled URBAN FLOW.
Magyar has built his camera to transpose hundreds of single pixel wide captured images per second, to create stunning images which intriguingly embrace time and space. The camera remains stationary while participants walk by. The world around it may change, and as one pixel is placed next to another, something intransient emerges. All that is moving becomes stilled and static objects such as buildings become background patterns, adding to the surreal ambiance of motion and speed within the image. URBAN FLOW is a study of quantifying movements and analyzing the rhythm of our environment. The outcome is an abstract transformation of reality. The technique he uses for it is identical with that of photo-finish cameras used in the Olympic Games. Making these images means permanent data collection about life passing by in front of the camera. The photos taken this way are sections of infinite time flowing by relentlessly, like our lifespans.
For a short moment, the time of those walking for the camera meets the timelessness of the piece of art. The viewers recognize their own time and add it to the photo, comparing these two times.
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Adam Magyar
Adam Magyar (born 1972) is a Berlin-based Hungarian photographer and video artist captivated by high-tech cities. His work depicts life in the urban environment and his process is a symbiosis between technology and creative instinct. He is fascinated by the flow of time in the endless stream of lives in the world’s biggest mega-cities, and his work depicts his dream of capturing the different parts of a person or of a group of people at different times, in one single image.
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