S U P E R B E A T – Demo

Tom Flynn’s Birefringence Work

These two images are made from a process called Birefringence, where light is split through a material with non-uniform molecules that is stressed by either stretching or layering. I don’t completely understand it either. Basically these images are made from stretching cling film and magnetising it, and they come out looking like this! Incredible.

They’re made by an artist called Tom Flynn. Tom had an exhibition in The Parlour Showrooms [the pop-up shop below my studio building] last weekend where I met him and we had a chat about “scientific art” which is kind of what this is. He said he fond out about Birefringence at a Science seminar and has been making this kind of work ever since.

I thought these would look amazing as a live projection for SUPERBEAT and asked him if it’s possible to turn these into moving images. Well, he said it’s totally possible and he’s gonna start working on it really soon. So we should be able to see his work in action at an upcoming Milk Bar gig. Really f*cking groovy.