Jan Tichy's Algorithmic Light Installation Premieres in New York

Jan Tichy's first New York exhibition featured site-specific light works in a Lower East Side commercial space. Installation No. 18 (2013) used projectors controlled by an algorithm responding to architectural elements, creating gradual illumination across cement floors and white columns. The show included 100 RAW (2009), where 100 black-and-white urban landscape photographs displayed as raw data files on a monitor accompanied by white noise generated from image files. Installation No. 6 (Tubes) (2008) placed 200 paper tubes atop an analogue television playing black-and-white animation, creating a miniature paper city effect. 1391 (2007) presented a 40-centimetre paper model of a secret Israeli military base alongside architectural drawings, illuminated by a rectangle of white light on the dark floor. The exhibition explored themes of technology, representation, and political subjects through light and sound. Works conveyed technological failure and urban disquiet through raw imagery and ominous pacing. The venue's vacant quality contrasted with Tichy's entrancing light interventions. The exhibition was reviewed in December 2013.