Name: Audioguide to yes/no by Carsten Nicolai by Light Art Museum Budapest
Duration: 46 s
Description: Carsten Nicolai’s yes/no represents the sound vibrations of two spoken words as elaborately crafted aluminium objects, thus making the sculptural character of sound visible. Instead of focusing on the difference between the content of the words ‘yes’ and ‘no’, the sculpture emphasises the frequency differences resulting from the different sounds.

Carsten Nicolai’s yes/no represents the sound vibrations of two spoken words as elaborately crafted aluminium objects, thus making the sculptural character of sound visible. Instead of focusing on the difference between the content of the words ‘yes’ and ‘no’, the sculpture emphasises the frequency differences resulting from the different sounds.

Audioguide to yes/no by Carsten Nicolai

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The Light Art Museum Budapest is one of the first exhibition spaces in the world to specialise specifically in the collection, research and display of works of this character. It presents the results of research into the interaction of art, science and technology, and the most diverse fields of research into the creative use of light, in order to create a complex and varied field of interpretation.

Our institution presents accomplishments based on the interaction of art, science and technology, as well as the most diverse fields of research carried out with creative use of light, in way that allows for a complex and varied range of interpretation.

Audioguide to yes/no by Carsten Nicolai

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