Fabian Oefner

Artworks by Fabian Oefner

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2. “Discoveries in science and technology have always been a catalyst for the arts.”

3. “I use Art like a vessel to investigate Science.” Fabian Oefner

4. “Timelines” is a collaboration between Fabian Oefner and Google Arts & Culture. Its a series of photographs, that visualise change in Alpine glaciers. https://fabianoefner.com/

5. The artist and his team worked together with the Glaciology Institute at ETH Zurich to bring art and science together in a unique way.

6. Using LED drones and long-exposure photography, the artist painted the scientific data collected by the Institute directly into the terrain.

7. Each glowing line was created by flying the drone along different positions of the glacier front in the past. The drone flights were captured with long-exposure photographs at night.

8. For the final images, Oefner blended several dozens of these individual photographs together.

9. The result are images, that not only show the beauty of these landscapes but also visualise the significant change of the glaciers during the last 100 years.

10. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/fabian-oefner-melted-metal/ Bismuth is silvery-white element not quite as dense as lead, and its various compounds are used in cosmetics, pigments, and the occasional pharmaceutical.

11. Oefner melted a chunk of it on a hot plate and watched the liquid oxidise as it cooled, creating a striking spectrum of colour. He scraped off a layer and saw the colours changed.

12. He did that over and over, photographing the bismuth as it transformed, lighting it with a flash from the side. Oefner made 2,000 images in two weeks.

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14. Nature’s Drawings is Oefner's exploration of the boundaries between art and science. https://fabianoefner.com/

15. It’s a circular arrangement of eight different experiments, which create drawings driven by chemical and physical processes.

16. Electrical current shapes into fractal patterns, rusting iron under magnetic influence generates delicate structures and gun powder burns sound waves into paper.

17. All experiments are connected in a way that one experiment triggers the next one until the full circle of works is completed, creating eight unique drawings in the process.

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20. For this experiment, Oefner poured water into a black reservoir. With the aid of a syringe, he then added small drops of oil onto the water surface. https://fabianoefner.com/

21. Upon contact with the water, the oil started to expand and form into magnificent structures. Some of them seem to look like stars exploding, others look like a photograph of the iris.

22. The various colours result from the reflection and refraction of light, as it passes through the oil film and back into the camera lens.

23. Depending on how thick the oil film is, the colours change from blue, green to red, until finally they disappear again.

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