Ernesto Walker
This project consists of a series of video – holograms entitled “Antigravity” that are projected from gadget screens through an instrument that creates the effect of a floating object and helps the image emerge from the screen.
The general idea has been developed for its exhibition at the Museum of Pocket Art, a disruptive exhibition space that’s contained on the inside of an Ipod. In these regards, Antigravity is directly related to the nature of MoPA and intends to generate reflections not only about the artwork, but about the platform itself.
The holograms are played with the help of an instrument that’s attached to the screen and provokes the effect of three-dimensional objects floating outside the device. Having the image emerging from the screen seeks for an experience that expands the visual possibilities of this museum and generates a yet more ephemeral content. These gestures are combined with the fact that the artwork can only exist by the combination of the played file and the screening instrument. In this regards, the contemplation of the pieces can happen only in specific situations which contradicts the usual repeatable and omnipresent dynamics of video contents on the internet.
The messages:
The project branches into 6 independent videos that explore some of the most recurrent theories and technologies related to the disruptive scientific efforts for developing antigravity effects. Each one of them is visually resolved integrating one of these approaches summarized in this project in six concepts: negative geometry, antimatter, acceleration, deceleration, reversion, and magnetism.
The subject of antigravity becomes meaningful for reflecting upon the cyberspace and its effects on the weight, behavior, range, velocity, and mass of information. Also, these phenomena echo with the often scientifically disregarded efforts for generating antigravity and the types of ambitious jet illusory effects of their technologies and elaborations so far.
Being presented at an exhibition in a dual venue that combines a virtual space (MoPA) and the facilities of a museum at the port of Galveston (GAC), these data illusions metaphorically arrive represented as floating messages in cybernetic bottles.