Lighting the Future – An Optical Media Art Exhibition :: The White Box Museum of Art, 798 Art Dist, No 2., Jiuxianqiao Road, Beijing :: Through October 3, 2010 ::

Works by Art Clay (CHE), Harro Schmidt (DEU), David Cheung (CAN) and others in the second floor gallery. Looking at the building at night, public roaming the streets of the 798 area can enjoy the playful works by Christiane Oppermann (DEU) and Claudia Wissmann (DEU).

image: „For Cookie Cutters and Stern“ by Swiss artist, Art Clay

The works make use of a variety of lighting techniques, but are also divided into artwork for public and private spaces in a unique way making use of the different qualities and ambience found in day and night light.

One of the artworks that can be viewed during the day and only within a closed space,[is] the „For Cookie Cutters and Stern“ by the Swiss artist, Art Clay… This is an installation that uses a simple incandescent light to turn what is apparently a score for music boxes into an image-generating machine. With this work, there is no difference between a music score and a filmstrip. As the 12 meter punch card moves through two hand-cranked music boxes and a light machine, the work creates sound and visuals combine this synaeshetically with light based images that fragment and encircle the room.

This exhibition is part of a Special Exhibition for the Beijing 798 Biennale that introduces foreign artists and light based media work to a Chinese audiences. It opened on 18th September along with almost one hundred other more exhibitions.