How does Black Hole Horizon elucidate its Public perception?
From August 20 to September 1, 2012, Kubli presented the first functional version of Black Hole Horizon at EMPAC's Studio2 in Troy, New York. It was a single hanging horn sculpture. After a further technical development phase, all three sculptures were shown as an active installation for the first time from February 20 to April 5, 2015, at the Kunstverein Ingolstadt.In 2016, the Ars Electronica Festival presented Black Hole Horizon in its annual thematic exhibition. The organizers described the installation as an "absolute crowd-puller". This presentation made Black Hole Horizon known to a broad international audience for the first time. The encounter between Kubli and Hiroshi Ishii, who led the symposium there, resulted in a long-term cooperation with the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, Boston.From July 17 to December 3, 2017, Black Hole Horizon was shown in São Paulo as part of the FILE Festival. The theme of the event was Bubbling Universes, based on the quantum physical multiverse theory. Black Hole Horizon was installed as the festival's central work in the foyer of the FIESP building on Avenida Paulista. As the largest festival for new media art in Latin America, the exhibition attracted over 72,000 visitors.Because of its strong visual quality and general accessibility for the public regardless of age and cultural background, the work was received predominantly positively by art critics and curators.
The art critic Dominique Moulon noted: "The spectacle of these autonomous bubbles represents a range of frequencies of variable duration and relative strangeness, that all brings us back to our childhood. Evanescent, these audio-visual entities punctuate the performance of their programmed disappearance."The art and media scientist Marcel René Marburger wrote: "Starting with the probability-based electronic impulses, we are dealing with a chain of coincidences in which we are all representing the last link. With each chance factor, the work will become even more unlikely, and thus even more innovative."
art critics sculpture probability new media art Ars Electronica FILE Festival EMPAC multiverse theory installation Hiroshi Ishii