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The miniature is a web version of the RGB: Ray Gun Beam Virus installation, presented at WRO in 2012 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of electronic art.
Like its exhibition prototype, it refers to the Ray Gun Virus installation by American artist Paul Sharits from 1966.
The work simulates the “spreading” of the color components of the image – a side effect of early video projectors – and introduces distortions that respond to environmental stimuli (such as sound).
W3RGBV is a digital study of perception and a reminder that what was once a flaw in the medium can become its aesthetic potential.
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W3RGBV is a a browser-based version of our installation RGB: Ray Gun Beam Virus from the exhibition Alternating. Direct. Shifting: AC/DC/IT which we created to celebrate the half-century anniversary of electronic art.
Like its exhibition prototype, it references the 1966 installation Ray Gun Virus by American artist Paul Sharits.
The installation simulates the effect of the color components of an image “splitting” (also introducing additional distortions under the influence of sufficiently strong stimuli) – an undesirable side effect resulting from the design of early video projectors, which were equipped with separate projection systems for each color component and were easily desynchronized.
It also draws on Sharits’s interests – the study of fundamental visual qualities and the interactions between phenomena representing these fundamental qualities.