Event Horizons
Aidan Lincoln & Youngmin Choi
Event Horizons are a pair of light sculptures inspired by the phenomena that takes place near the event horizon of a black hole. Each sculpture represents one side of a black hole, emitting red and blue hoops which move through the front and back of one sculpture into the other sculpture. A series of colorful circles move horizontally between the two sculptures and interact with each other, warping and shifting color when they collide. This is an abstraction of the gravitational lensing around the edge of a heavy body in space. The sculptures are 11x16x3in and each contain over 6,000 leds positioned between a three dimensional box made from lenticular lens. The lenticules of each sculpture stretch and skew each individual pixel causing them to blend together and create the illusion of depth presenting a hologram for the viewer to enjoy. The sculptures are driven by two Raspberry Pi computers networked together to sync the animations on each screen.
About Aidan Lincoln Fowler: Aidan Lincoln Fowler is a multi-disciplinary artist based out of Brooklyn, NY who uses a wide array of new media technology, digital fabrication tools, and machine learning to create light sculptures, illusions, generative art, neural network art. Generally, he creates physical sculptures that look like renders and renders that look like real-world artifacts. Recently, Aidan has been developing his video infinity mirror series: Infinite Reflections (the first video infinity mirrors) and has shown them across the country including, along with multiple other works, in the Telfair Museum in Savannah Georgia- Beyond: Light, Color, and Illusion. He has also recently shown Infinite Reflections and other works in Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, Myta Sayo Gallery In Toronto, and Hot Bed Gallery in Philadelphia. Aidan finished his post-doc residency at NYU TISCH School Of The Arts Interactive Telecommunication Program in 2022 where he also completed his MPS in 2021. He has previously completed degrees in Computer Science (MS) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (BSx2) at Johns Hopkins University.
About Youngmin Choi: Youngmin Choi is a South Korean born, Brooklyn based, multi-disciplinary artist who works with visual coding, 3D renders, and digital fabrication to create interactive experiences. The artist’s works incorporate her background as an architect, using spatial elements and physical experience which expand and augment viewers perception of their surroundings. She has shown works at Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, Illumination Festival, and the Telfair Museum in Savannah. Youngmin holds M.P.S. from NYU Tisch and B.Arch from University of Seoul.