Lightmap Devices
Ief Spincemaille, 2016
Concept and realisation: Ief Spincemaille
Development: Culture Crew and Bout De Beul
Co-production: City of Leuven, 30CC, Werktank and the Princess Elisabeth Station Antarctica.
Many thanks to all people who voluntarily placed a camera in their house and to all partners who, by purchasing a Lightmap Device, made this project possible.
Previously
2016 - Artefact, Leuven (Werktank)
In “Lightmap Devices” four small light modules show the evolution of sunlight at four different locations, and this over a period of one year.
On January 1, 2015 Ief Spincemaille placed four cameras on opposite sides of the world, ranging from the Arctic to the Antarctic (Princess Elisabeth polar station) and from Belgium to New Zealand. Each location shows a pulse of light and darkness that, like a heartbeat, determines the uniqueness of a particular place. Every six minutes, the cameras took a picture of the sky. One year later, all the pictures were brought together and arranged into one composite image of 240 pictures for each day, arranged in 365 vertical lines.
“Lightmap Devices” is a continuation of “Lightmap”, an installation in Museum M in Leuven, which over the course of 2013 took pictures, every six minutes, of the sky and printed this simultaneously on one of 87.600 small plastic blocks. Every six minutes, a block was added to the composite image, leaving a trace of what time essentially is: the rotation of the earth around the sun.
