Domingo a tarde

Fui visitar a Science Gallery. Queria ter ido na exposicao passada, mas nao fui porque fiquei com medo de parecer burra caso nao entendesse as explicacoes geniais das genialidades dos genios da Trinity. Agora, ainda com o mesmo medo, eu fui na Lightwave. Tirei alguns detalhes do site e vou adicionar meus comentarios, para voces verem que meu medo foi justificado.

LIGHTWAVE at the Science Gallery gives you a unique chance to experiment with illumination in the company of a bright and buzzing community of scientists, engineers, philosophers and techno-artists who are passionate about the visible spectrum: Oba! Luzinhas!

Agora algumas das intalacoes:

BEACON - Are the machines watching you? - This installation creates a kinetic light space that has a mind of its own, interacting with the surroundings and its visitors. Normally in constant rotation, these emergency beacon lights have been modified to create an immersive and powerful experience: Eeeee, eu ando para cá e as luzes me seguem! Agora pro outro lado! Olha! Me seguiram! (passei um bom tempo nessa sala).

KOSMOSCOPE - Want to see the earth move? - Kosmoscope acts as a seismic observatory, creating a spectacular audiovisual translation of the sound of the earth’s movements. Kosmoscope takes the form of a ‘box kaleidoscope’, large enough to allow small groups of people to enter the installation and be immersed in the infinite illusory space it creates. Once inside, viewers can watch live tectonic recordings, relayed by he Global Seismographic Network, a coordinated network of seismographic instruments used to monitor earthquakes: Mas é movimento de rotacao ou translacao? E se eu rodar tambem?

LASER THEREMIN - Can you create a light and soundscape? : Nem precisa da descricao, a resposta é nao, nao consigo nao. Quando achei que estava conseguindo, o monitor disse que eu estava perto demais e a máquina nao funcionava de tao perto.

EOD04 - What will the electric fish tell you? - EOD04 is as an artwork inspired by biology, physics and technology. The communication of living electric fish is turned into sound and light through a matrix of LEDs that track the electric waves of the fish. As the fish are nocturnal the impact of light will make the fish move. The installation stimulates the audience to be slow and observant: Nada, o peixe nao disse nada porque ele estava dormindo, segundo a monitora.

THE NEURON CHAMBER - What do your thoughts look like? - Peer through the glass window of The Neuron Chamber where you’ll see sculptures communicating the form and function of brain cells called neurons. As you walk around the chamber, studying the neuron’s curves and textures, you watch the bright electrical arcs twist and flow horizontally down the neuron’s length alluding to the way neurons create our mental world through electrical impulse: Um neuroniozao! Deve ser a gas porque o cheiro ta forte!

THE PANOPLY - What is revealed under the panoply? - Immerse yourself in the mirrored and light filled Panoply – a 20’ 3-frequency geodesic dome with 616 individually controlled full-color LED pixels arranged in circles at its vertices. The Panoply is an interactive installation where its patterns are controlled by a hacked Wii remote, allowing participants to control the patterns of light shimmering throughout: O que panoply? Cade meu controle remoto?

SCINTILLATOR -What makes physics scintillating? - Scintillator is an interactive sculpture made from fluorescent scintillator bars and wavelength shifting optical fibres. Your interaction will make the sculpture shift colour. The sculpture’s composition is inspired by tetrahedral forms, the Platonic solids and Kepler’s diagrams of planetary systems, investigating the underlying structures of nature. Scintillator brings you materials that are frequently used in many modern physics experiments to detect elusive subatomic particles and high-energy electromagnetic radiation at a very high precision: Parece um iceberg!

VARIATA - What makes sparks fly? - Variata from variable data is a live presentation of high voltage plasma and corona discharge, using a lightning arc drawing concept in a collaboration between art and science: Se ele enfiar o dedo ali, ele morre?

Fotos e mais experimentos em: http://www.sciencegallery.com/exhibits