Carbon Console

“Carbon Console” was an immersive art sculpture with controlled light and soundscape by SellFable, exhibited in the Amsterdam STRAAT Museum. An immersive, multidisciplinary art installation, emanating light and sound. It’s a portal that will carry the visitor away like an ancient sailing ship, towards unknown shores: anywhere but here. Whether it is experienced as a portal, a chapel, a mausoleum, a refuge, or something altogether different, is up to us. Its true purpose is open to our own interpretation and imagination.

The structure has elements of machinery, ropes, masts, sails and a banner, bring to mind old sailing ships, a small factory, and perhaps a teleporting device. Something from a parallel universe. Images of robot guardians on the sides, are cut out of the material and glow with the rhythm of the soundscapes.

Once inside, the room captivates and immerses us with ever changing soundscapes and lights. We experience the machine coming to life, and it does what it was meant to do: transport us to that other universe: SellFable. View more SellFable projects.

Hexadecimal poetry

Hexadecimal numbers are painted all over the installation, easily mistaken for decoration, the numbers have a meaning. Hexadecimal language is an early computer programming language, and the language of the SellFable Machine Universe. It can easily be translated to English, revealing fragments of poetry. For example: 63 61 72 62 6f 6e 20 63 6f 6e 73 6f 6c 65 translates as: carbon console. The sequence 74 65 72 6d 69 6e 75 73 translates as: terminus. These are the texts cut out of the left and right front side.

Specifications

Size: 4m (w) x 8m (d) x 12m (h)
Materials: wood, LED lights, aluminum tube, speakers, amplifier

Video by Sandder