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Sole – Artificial Sun by Quiet Ensemble

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Not quite the same but a similar interesting artificial sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqBsHSwPgw

Looks like a much more cost-effective alternative to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQ5PIM9AFs

No discussion of artificial suns is complete without someone mentioning WWII era carbon arc search lights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWLmKcZtb-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho9doOP2RO0

WTF ?

"The installation alludes to the ephemerality of the border between natural and artificial, real and virtual, evoking the possibility of a delicate and invisible technology."

Just a look at a forest in my Belgium country. 99% chance it's not natural. I don't need 49 projectors and associated wasted CO2 to demonstrate that... A very simple walk outside plus a bit of comment would just do it.

Do you feel that CO2 is a big concern here, or did you just throw that in as a bit of snark for a project that you have no aesthetic affinity with?

I must admit that sometimes I think the artists, especially the contemporary ones, are making things that are not really interesting in the artistic sense. I do appreciate the aesthetics of the piece that is provided here though. But besides that, the "conveyed idea" doesn't seem very smart to me. I understand artistic freedom though, but as such it can be criticized (which I do).

AFAIC, moreover, the virtual-real distinction has been already, in some sense, covered. See for example the hyperrealism movement, or more closely a movie such as Existenz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperrealism_(visual_arts)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz

What even is the aesthetic proposition here? I'm not sure I even get it on the artists terms. Is it the feeling of aliveness/presence/perspective that the artist obtained by simulating the sun?

Or something to do with the duplicity of this sun being fake?

Or some interplay of these two propositions?

Something else entirely do you think?

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