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Hard Coded Memory by Troika
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The next exhibition at London's Design Museum combines the work of new-gen designers with Swarovski's crystal archives. Running 5 September 2012 to 13 January 2013, Digital Crystal: Swarovski at the Design Museum explores the concept of how our tangible lifestyles are revolving into a digital age.
The exhibition leads with a video, a journey of light in a digital age by Random International. Semiconductor follow by placing the viewer in the heart of an animation, as the journey of a growing mineral crystal is creatively presented.
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Pandora chandelier by Fredrikson Stallard
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Design duo Fredrikson Stallard revisit their 2007 piece, Pandora Chandelier. This traditional-looking chandelier is actually a digitally-programmed installation; with progressive movement, the chandelier slowly explodes into a chaos of light and crystal before reforming back to its original state.
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Hard Coded Memory by Troika
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Troika takes the photograph, film and the notebook as its starting point. Dwelling on the change of how memories are now recorded, Troika's Hard Coded Memory presents a photograph through a Swarovski lens to create a blurred reinterpretation.
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Wrapping crystal by Anton Alvarez
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RCA graduate Anton Alvarez has incorporated crystal into his Thread Wrapping project: by spinning the yarn over objects, these pieces represent long-lasting artefacts.
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Crystallize chandelier by Paul Cocksedge
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Paul Cocksedge's Crystallize chandelier (commissioned 2005) focuses on the ethereal qualities of light. Through single crystals mounted onto a tubular glass frame, trajectory beams fill the room as light cascades from each crystal.
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Lolita by Ron Arad
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Unfamiliar Mass by Hye-Yeon Park
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Unfamiliar Mass is a 30cm completely crystal ring, designed by the Design Museum's designer-in-residence, Hye-Yeon Park. The piece represents an echo of a memory, revealing a secret polar bear-shaped crystal when cut open.
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Amplify Chandelier by Yves Béhar
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Yves Béhar’s Amplify Chandelier creates digitalised patterns by amplifying a Swarovski crystal within a paper lantern.
Other highlights from the exhibition include Hilda Hellström's minute-long film, exploring the crystal as a symbol for myth and narrative; Marcus Tremonto's futuristic hologram, representing the idea that memories could be captured in 3D; Arik Levy's Osmosis Film, which highlights the constant transitions of the real world through the gradual shift of particles from one place to another; and Philippe Malouin's project, Blur, which spins a Swarovski crystal at speed to create a colourful spectrum of light. The result is interchangeable, depending on the speed at which the crystals are spun.
