Echo · Daniel Canogar

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Echo, Daniel Canogar's third solo exhibition in New York. Featuring the U.S. premiere of his flexible screen sculpture series, the show includes six objects that illuminate their environment. Echo opens concurrently with Tendril, the artist's recently completed permanent installation for the Tampa International Airport and his largest project to date. Based in Spain, Daniel Canogar is internationally renowned for pioneering a technique that enables him to create sculptural screens with a membrane-like quality that can conform to multiple surfaces, objects, and architectures. Each work in Echo consists of a grid of LED tiles with flexible rubber-backed PCB modules that uniquely allow for torsion and curvature. Outfitted with over one hundred twenty thousand points of light each, in concert, these modules depict scintillating abstract compositions. The on-screen compositions are produced in response to real-time global environmental phenomena such as temperature, rainfall, seismic activity, and other data sets. The works cull data from the web and process it into animations using software developed by the artist's team. The animations generate dynamic visual output based on complex mathematical descriptions of natural entropic processes such as the movement of water molecules in a ripple. The sinuous forms and exposed cables appear creature-like, reminiscent of phosphorescent deep-water organisms with glowing membranes and tentacles. Echo's physical embodiment of screen-skin invites us to examine the screen as sculpture and search for empathy in the constant deluge of sterile abstract data.