2023-09-12 15:34:02
On October 15, the artist Claire Williams will begin an artist residency at the Open Air Museum in collaboration with CESAM, the nanotechnology research center at ULiège.
Making the invisible
For her residency at the Open-Air Museum, Claire Williams will collaborate with the CESAM (Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials) research unit and more particularly with professors Alejandro SILHANEK and Ngoc Duy NGUYEN, specialists in nanotechnologies, to create a work which will eventually dissolve, at the limit of the visible and the invisible.
The nanotechnology department uses many nanotechnology techniques. At the end of the residency, the artist hopes to have lithographed a story that makes sense today on a nano scale. With the researchers, she will begin a reflection that is both artistic and scientific for the choice of materials and the content to be engraved. Other scientific departments might also step in to consider other techniques.
Materialize the waves
From the hacked knitting machine, textiles transformed into capture surfaces or the creation of artisanal electronic components, Claire Williams’ works are at the crossroads of craftsmanship, sound and electronics. His works seek to capture the multiple variations of our electromagnetic spectrum and take the form of woven antennas, embroidered radios and installations. Electromagnetic waves materialize in knitted points, in sound vibrations or even in the form of light pulsations. In particular, she creates devices combining craftsmanship and electronics or she sculpts electronic components in order to make visible the electromagnetic movements of our magnetosphere, the sun or our body. Its interfaces combining embroidery, electronics or glass offer us a tactile relationship with sensitive phenomena. She is currently working on the exploration of the ether, at the crossroads of occult and experimental science practices. It thus explores our relationship to the world of the invisible by reactivating abandoned avenues of certain scientists and researchers from the mid-19th century.
This artist residency is the result of the collaboration of the Open Air Museum and Réjouisciences, as part of the projects of the Museum and Cultural Center.
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