Notional Field (Dubai) is a site-specific interactive installation that consists of a sculpture composed of vertical and parallel elastic cord strings that are illuminated with a computer [...]

Designed by Annica Cuppetelli and Crisobal Mendoza

Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza began collaborating as Cuppetelli and Mendoza in 2010. Their work has been exhibited in the Denver Art Museum, the Bienal de Video y Artes Mediales in Chile and in festivals such as Nemo 2013 (France), Scopitone 2012 (France), ISEA 2012, FILE 2011 (Brazil), FAD 2011 (Brazil) and video_dumbo 2013 and 2011 (New York). Cuppetelli received a MFA in fibers from Cranbrook Academy of Art, while Mendoza completed a MFA in digital and media from the Rhode Island School of Design. They are based in Detroit.

Notional Field (Dubai) is a site-specific interactive installation that consists of a sculpture composed of vertical and parallel elastic cord strings that are illuminated with a computer-generated video projection of lines.

The motion of these projected lines is ruled by a simulation, which makes them act like soft ropes. The motion is influenced by a viewer’s movements, as interpreted by a computer; the physical gestures of the participant are translated into virtual forces that affect the computer-generated lines, while the physical lines of the installation remain motionless. The piece revolves around the idea of interface, which is interpreted as the point of contact between two different entities: the viewer and the piece (a human/computer interface); the real and the virtual; and between the foreground and background (as the projection creates an interference pattern with the sculpture).

Notional Field (Dubai) is part of a series of works that investigate ideas of perception and participation, focused through an exploration of the relationships between the physical and the virtual.


Al Fahidi District