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Exterior works
November 28, 2024 to March 9, 2025
Bask in the bioluminescence of the oceans.
Biolumen is inspired by radiolarians, tiny single-celled creatures whose name means “little ray of sunlight.” After sunset, they light up and cast colourful beams that make the ocean water glow. This interactive installation combines art, science and nature, allowing you to feel the link that connects us with the natural world through an experience combining light, sound and textures. When you rotate the unique sculptures, inspired by radiolarians, an ever-changing melody begins – you are helping to create visual and sonic harmonies that evoke the symbiosis of humans living in balance with nature.
CRÉDITS
Creation: Radha Chaddah
Design : RAW Design
Fabrication: Jack World
Sound design: Jaclyn Blumas
Co-production: Quartier des spectacles Partnership, la ville de Mississauga and Culture Shawinigan.
Distribution: Quartier des spectacles international
Executive Production Touring: Jack World
Presented by the QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES PARTNERSHIP and PALAIS DES CONGRÈS DE MONTRÉAL
About Radha Chaddah
Radha Chaddah is a Toronto based visual artist and scientist. Her work examines the interconnectedness of our material reality from the micro to the macro. In her studio she designs large scale projected light installations for public exhibition. She prepares samples and shoots much of this imagery in laboratories at the University of Toronto. There, Radha uses the tools of research science to grow cells using embedded fluorescent light-emitting molecules. She examines these cells and myriad other fragments of nature using a variety of imaging systems from light-based laser confocal fluorescent microscopes to non-light based ultra-high magnification scanning electron systems.
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About RAW Design
RAW Design is a Toronto-based architectural firm that works on a wide variety of scales and project types. From community greenhouses to large residential developments, not to mention outdoor interactive installations, its team of 60 architects and designers takes a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach. For Prismatica, the firm assembled a team of professionals from several fields (applied science, technology, art and architecture).?
Biolumen is inspired by radiolarians, tiny single-celled creatures whose name means “little ray of sunlight.” After sunset, they light up and cast colourful beams that make the ocean water glow. This interactive installation combines art, science and nature, allowing you to feel the link that connects us with the natural world through an experience combining light, sound and textures. When you rotate the unique sculptures, inspired by radiolarians, an ever-changing melody begins – you are helping to create visual and sonic harmonies that evoke the symbiosis of humans living in balance with nature.
CRÉDITS
Creation: Radha Chaddah
Design : RAW Design
Fabrication: Jack World
Sound design: Jaclyn Blumas
Co-production: Quartier des spectacles Partnership, la ville de Mississauga and Culture Shawinigan.
Distribution: Quartier des spectacles international
Executive Production Touring: Jack World
Presented by the QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES PARTNERSHIP and PALAIS DES CONGRÈS DE MONTRÉAL
About Radha Chaddah
Radha Chaddah is a Toronto based visual artist and scientist. Her work examines the interconnectedness of our material reality from the micro to the macro. In her studio she designs large scale projected light installations for public exhibition. She prepares samples and shoots much of this imagery in laboratories at the University of Toronto. There, Radha uses the tools of research science to grow cells using embedded fluorescent light-emitting molecules. She examines these cells and myriad other fragments of nature using a variety of imaging systems from light-based laser confocal fluorescent microscopes to non-light based ultra-high magnification scanning electron systems.
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About RAW Design
RAW Design is a Toronto-based architectural firm that works on a wide variety of scales and project types. From community greenhouses to large residential developments, not to mention outdoor interactive installations, its team of 60 architects and designers takes a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach. For Prismatica, the firm assembled a team of professionals from several fields (applied science, technology, art and architecture).?
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