This project started with the production

of a small poster that was a result of

reading a text by Paul Virilio

The text claimed the limits of digital worlds

to be formed by the screen as a new horizon.

My statement was that the limit is not formed

by the frame of the image but by the depth

an image contains.

A strong illustration for this idea

is the most spacial electronic experience

I experienced when pointing a videocamera

to the screen that is showing the camera’s input.

A visual shortcircuit.

A couple of these experiments are published

in the amazing book Godel Escher Bach,

by Douglas Hofstadter from which I merged

one of these pictures with a drawing by Escher,

in itself a spatial creation showing the new horizon.

When being introduced to the Program 3d studio Max

my attention was drawn to the particle systems

that is one of it's features.

Basically giving the opportunity to construct

movement in space my means of a starting power.

Gravities and mirrors give possibilities to influence

the ways of these particles but because of the

inherent kinetic energy there's no total control

only in mathematical abstract formula's describing

the particles movement.

Competition

During the project a competition was issued to design

an underground space for Amsterdam Leidseplein.

One of the most constructive elements available

there were tram tracks. Apart from their inflexibility

they can be seen as constructive beams.

So i decided to track the tramtracks with particles

and help of gravities. Thisgave me a two-dimensional model.

By twisting the gravities under the tracks the particles

started moving in the third dimension.

I copied parts of the tramtracks and tracked them,

following the particlepath. These new tracks form

the beams of the underground space.

Technical details

In order to transform this movement in to solid shapes

i used two maxscript files that were available.

One called object particles and another called trailmaker,

they allow to turn particles into objects.