ProJect black hole
Project Black Hole is a media arts installation that debuted at the 2019 Jasper Dark Sky festival. It is definitely one of those projects that has continued to evolve overtime and I aim to one day share more imagery and behind the scenes content of the process. I'm not sure when that will be exactly. Time dilation appears to also effect approaching artificial black holes. For updates and more cosmic dad jokes, subscribe to my email list.
DESCRIPTION:
Project Black Hole is a media art installation by Scott Portingale that debuted at the 2019 Jasper Dark Sky Festival. Using mathematical models and theories of gravitation as inspiration, Scott has created a set of black hole sculptures for the gallery environment. These sculptures are brought to life by projected media that was photographed using in-camera cinematic techniques used before the advent of digital effects and CGI. The imagery was created using pendulums, potter-wheels, light-painting, and fluid dynamics, ultraviolet light and mirrors.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Black holes are one of nature's deepest mysteries. They are a cosmic boundary of both physical reality and knowledge. Similar to gravity, the mystery of black holes draws us closer and piques our interest at the potential that lays beyond the event horizon. The fact that we discovered these structures through mathematics a century before observing them brought to my attention that mathematics is not only a pursuit of measurement, it is an observational tool. A probe into the unknown, that carries our imagination to its limits. My background in experimental filmmaking, coupled with an obsession with science, led me to create this work inspired by one of the greatest examples of natural phenomena in the cosmos, the black hole.
