ARTEFACT EXPO: UP IN THE AIR

I am sitting on the beach and I keep a yardstick in front of me, parallel with the horizon. They say that the earth is round and I want to verify whether this is true. But either my yardstick is too short or the earth is not round enough.
Ief Spincemaille...

The work Air with Paper Shreds can be understood as a form study on movement in air. These studies were instrumental in the development of the sculptural installation works Frederic Geurts creates, often in situ and in relation to their destined surroundings. As such, Geurts inscribes...

In the Robot Skies is the world’s first narrative short film, shot entirely through drones. In collaboration with the Processing Speech and Images research unit from the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven, the film is captured by a specially developed flock of camera...

We call it in, and we're given all the clearances that are necessary, all the approvals and everything else, and then we do something called the Light of God - the Marines like to call it the Light of God. It's a laser targeting marker. We just send out a beam of...

Matilda is a taxidermied pigeon, suited with a video camera. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, homing pigeons were already extensively used for delivering mail, which proved to be especially useful during war times to transport sensitive telegrams from one place to another....

Much of the discussion around unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) is directed towards its capabilities of surveillance and attack. Less known, is that for those living in areas of conflict, the engine sound of the drones has devastating psychological effects. Military drones fly at high altitudes...

In the Nimbus series, Smilde creates clouds in a diverse range of indoor locations, from coalmines to cathedrals. Nimbus clouds are clouds that produce precipitation. They are characterised by their low altitude, darker colour, due to the fact that they are dense in water, and great volume.

As Above Not Below is an immersive installation which materialises the presence of the unseen infrastructure of international airspace, and the movement of vessels across it, which surround Belgium. Live data is gathered from planes as they pass nearby, revealing their physical...

With Smog Tasting: Smog Synthesizer van The Center for Genomic Gastronomy en Nicola Twilley present an experimental food cart for simulating the smell and flavor of air pollution from various...

The Limitations of Logic and the Absence of Absolute Certainty is a man-made tornado, mimicking the processes that are conducive to real tornados. Although the installation willingly reveals the science behind it, at the same time the work acknowledges that there is something inherently...

With the installation The Limitations of Logic and the Absence of Absolute Certainty, McClymont produced a series of drawings on paper that track the movement and path of the tornado. The drawings are influenced by hurricane tracking charts that use grids to map storm paths. The...

First, our idea of the sky must be reconciled with what we do in it. Our actions there mapped and charted. The sky itself must be woven into the fabric of our societal sense of place. 
Megan Prelinger – Charting the Sky on The Atmosphere Guide...

In response to a commission from STUK, Frederic Geurts together with seven students architectural engineering of Prof Mattias Schevenels (University of Leuven) developed the installation Glorious Failure for the inner courtyard of STUK. In...

The Paper Planes series consists of sixteen folded paper models of actual aircraft designs that have never been realised. Based on information, technical drawings and ‘artist impressions’, predominantly found online, Knibbeler was able to create the reconstructions. These aircraft now...

Having worked on the Rafah project quite a bit, I have found a strange poetry in these bomb plumes.  Their obscure ever-changing morphology offers a time signature for us, but they also manifest a very significant moment when architecture turns into dust and its...

As a child we have been lying on our back in the grass and spend time looking into the sky. We looked at the clouds, gazed into space and gave room to our fantasies, our dreams, careless of culture, time and place.

And how often do we give ourselves...