Star Projector
Star Projector
Posted 10.07.22
In collaboration with UAP, Oliver van den Berg ’s Star Projector is a part of KAUST ART which is an extensive program of artwork commissions that celebrate the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as an international platform of collaboration and exchange. The primary focus of the program is to interpret and present interdisciplinary art and design that stimulates creativity and interaction by engaging prominent artists and designers from around the globe, the project unites East and West to create site-specific solutions exploring world-class practices.
Setting the tone for the ground floor of the University’s research lab. Star Projector is a based on an actual apparatus used for projecting an accurate image of the night sky in large planetariums, the 5.7m steel and aluminum structure has all the appearance of futuristic technology without the function. Reduced to pure form, it reflects something of the nature of the human beings who created it.
Star Projector speaks of humanity’s shared desire for knowledge and the unknowable and acknowledges the legacy of Arabic scholars and scientists in the fields of astronomy and science.