BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA
BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, 2003; View from Schlossberg
With the BIX Light and Media Façade on the Kunsthaus Graz, realities:united 2003 made its international name; now a prototype of the installation by the Berlin artists and architects has been added to MoMA’s collection.
BIX is the 900 m2 light and media installation in the façade of the Kunsthaus in Graz. It makes it possible to program the façade like a computer monitor and to broadcast projections, animations, or messages into the urban space. The conceptual highlights are the individual lighting elements that constitute the screen: not filigree, high-tech LEDs, but conventional, circular fluorescent lamps, arranged on a vast scale.
BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, 2003; Detail
The installation, which has won several prizes, fulfills the Kunsthaus’ communicative ambition and has become one of its special aesthetic identifying features. Upon its completion in 2003, the installation set a new standard for the fusion of architecture, media, and art. Since then it has been considered one of the most important reference projects in the discourse on media architecture concepts.
BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, 2003
The inclusion in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) confirms that the installation and the underlying approach are still relevant seven years after the project’s completion.
Jan and Tim Edler, the founders of realities:united say: “We always regarded this work as an artistic laboratory, i.e. one freed of commercial constraints, for researching suitable behaviors for an increasingly dynamizing architecture. In our view, BIX is more a process for developing a language than an artistic end product. Becoming part of MoMA’s collection is an honor for us. It also shows how the concepts of such collections expand.”
BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, 2003; «One-pixel prototyp» (MoMA collection)
BIX will be represented in MoMA’s collection by an early prototype of one “pixel” that served realities:united in the planning process as an object of study for the investigation of the illuminatory effect and controllability of the installation.
Links:
MoMA
realities:united
BIX Documentary
BIX Video Documentary
BIX Webcam
Kunsthaus Graz
7:23 PM Nov 16th
Prototype of BIX Light and Media Façade added to MoMA collection http://is.gd/hes2k
7:31 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA: BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, 2003; View from Schlo… http://bit.ly/ax3xlg
7:31 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA: BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, 2003; View from Schlo… http://bit.ly/9YJWWi
7:37 PM Nov 16th
A wild design, worthy of recognition. RT @ArchDaily: BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://archdai.ly/bqK9Ym
7:45 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA: With the BIX Light and Media Façade on the Kunsthaus Graz, realities:united … http://bit.ly/ax3xlg
7:45 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA via ArchDaily – BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz, … http://tinyurl.com/2a8z4jx
7:52 PM Nov 16th
RT @ArchDaily: BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://archdai.ly/bqK9Ym #architecture
8:06 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA: BIX Communicative Display Skin for the Kunsthaus Graz… http://goo.gl/fb/XgnTc
8:24 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://archdai.ly/bqK9Ym #architecture at @ArchDaily
8:40 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://pulsene.ws/jVAc #architecture
8:50 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA | ArchDaily: With the BIX Light and Media Façade on the K… http://bit.ly/cHXMz0 http://www.cubestudio.info
8:53 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://bit.ly/cf0o9f
10:08 PM Nov 16th
The aliens have landed! The aliens have landed! – BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://bit.ly/bfKJio
10:15 PM Nov 16th
RT @ArchDaily: BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://archdai.ly/bqK9Ym #architecture
10:25 PM Nov 16th
Via @ArchDaily – BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://dlvr.it/8fCNj #architecture
11:31 PM Nov 16th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA. http://bit.ly/9dhyCQ
3:23 AM Nov 17th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://bit.ly/9YJWWi
5:02 AM Nov 17th
RT @ArchDaily: BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://archdai.ly/bqK9Ym #architecture
5:28 AM Nov 17th
Not sure I like it.. BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA | ArchDaily http://t.co/b8zH6ED #architecture #design
8:13 AM Nov 17th
F comme Façade @archdaily (en) BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://bit.ly/bj14zP
9:55 AM Nov 17th
http://www.archdaily.com/89408/bix-light-and-media-facade-at-moma/ BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA
10:43 AM Nov 17th
BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA | ArchDaily http://t.co/sOv8aP4 via @archdaily
12:36 PM Nov 17th
great! nice collaboration between light and art: BIX facade installation takes place in the MOMA collection @archdaily http://bit.ly/bdzetN
1:11 PM Nov 17th
RT @ethel_baraona: BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://archdai.ly/bqK9Ym #architecture at @ArchDaily
9:12 AM Nov 18th
RT @instantarchi: F comme Façade @archdaily (en) BIX Light and Media Façade at MoMA http://bit.ly/bj14zP