Grönlund-Nisunen Two Views, 2020

The work plays on the physical properties of light, its transmission and perception. While the LED screen seems to produce a steady glow of white illumination, the ipad--because of the nature of its technological transformation of light waves into digital information--reproduces this sight as a pattern of white and black horizontal bars. That is, the tablet camera filming the LED panel records as horizontal “interfering” lines across the image what a human eye does not see: the intermittent waves constituting the LED light. Comparable to the horizontal lines produced when filming analogue television sets, the work uses a technological glitch to highlight the nature of light and its transformation by various technological means, as well as the limitations of human perception.