olaf mooij: braincar
<p>by day, the 'braincar' captures and stores images and video as it drives, while by night, the footage is projected from within the brain sculpture into remixed videos, as though they were the vehicle's dreams about its day.</p>
the ‘braincar’ by olaf mooij image © gé hirdes
‘braincar’ is a mobile sculpture created by rotterdam artist olaf mooij, featuring a large brain-like extrusion on the back of a modified used car. by day, the vehicle captures and stores images and video from its travels. by night, this footage is remixed, projected from within the brain sculpture and visible from the outside.
mooij’s body of work involves the alteration of motor vehicles, in pieces that express the nearly psychological connection between drivers and their cars, or that convert vehicles into a kind of mobile sculpture architecture, as in ‘DJ mobile‘ or the sofa-like ‘chesterfield car’. with ‘braincar’, mooij questioned what it would be like if instead the car itself could experience with a kind of consciousness its own passage through spacetime.
video of the ‘braincar’ ‘dreaming’ at night
3/4 rear view image © olaf mooij
night view image © olaf mooij
view of the ‘brain’ at night image © uwe weber
additional night view image © uwe weber
the car on the highway image © eric fecken
design process: ‘braincar’ collage
design process: ‘braincar’ model
design process: computer renderings
building the ‘braincar’
shaping the brain
view of vehicle almost completed
