Continuum

CONTINUUM

CONTINUUM is an audio-visual interactive installation created by the AV collective FotonX.

Part of the permanent exhibition at the Lumina Gallery in Prague as of 2024.

In this piece a meditation on the state of our own diminishing and degenerating environment due to human irresponsibility is transformed into a confrontation with environments outside of our own blue-green planet, and the potential consequences of humans reaching them. The 3D landscape and relief of a small surface of Mars is created through wires that are hung up in a semi-circular frame. The installation in its undisturbed state shows the evolution of an alien ecosystem, live-time generated by an algorithm (based on cellular automata). Upon entering the sensitive area in front of the installation, the audience will suddenly interfere with both video projection and soundscape, and this interference will persist even when out of range (representing the human footprint and the potential consequences it could have on this environment). As the audience explores this alien landscape different sounds are triggered creating a soundscape unique to each individual person.

The installation was commissioned by DEPO2015 cultural space in 2015, which is one of the key components of the “Pilsen – European Capital of Culture 2015” project. It was an accompanying exhibition of Ryoji Ikeda’s “test pattern [n°7]” in summer 2015. It has also been displayed in the alternative space Hol, in Prague, Czech Republic.