"Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory" 2008
Evelina DOMNITCH & Dmitry GELFANDAs your vision acclimates to the darkness, the subtle shimmer of a delicate light emerges, transformed from sound in a spherical water-filled acrylic box in the center of the space. A band of sound waves of varying frequency is converted into light, made visible, by the sound luminescence phenomenon that occurs when it passes through the chemical medium contained in the water. This phenomenon, which in the conceptual phase seemed impossible even for scientists, was jointly developed in laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia, and Belgium. The "observatory" in the title indicates that the micro phenomena can only be visualized when certain marginal conditions are provided, and the impossibility of comprehending the phenomena even for the scientists because of the limits of accuracy for the measuring devices. This is a trial to connect chemistry and physics, inside and outside the sphere (inside and outside of the world), phenomena and visitors, with this unprecedented method, to make each influence its other. In this exhibition we exhibit the latest version controlled by sound pressure, etc.